Half an hour of the finest classical music
Episode m0010prl, broadcast at Wednesday 20th October 2021, 7:00pm.
“An uninterrupted sequence of classical music including favourites by Rachmaninov, Vaughan Williams and Mendelssohn, serenades from Britten and Schubert, lush film music from Gabriel Yared, and virtuoso singing from Cleo Laine performing Duke Ellington. Producer: Helen Garrison”
Track listing
- 0:41 – Octet for strings (Op.20) in E flat major - iii. Scherzo
- Composer Felix Mendelssohn
- Performer Emerson String Quartet
- 4:51 – Étincelles, Op.36 no.6
- Performer Stephen Hough
- Composer Moritz Moszkowski
- 7:41 – The Turtle Dove (track 701, Songs of Farewell)
- Conductor Nigel Short
- Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Choir Tenebrae
- 10:50 – The English Patient; Rupert Bear
- Orchestra Academy of St Martin in the Fields
- Composer Gabriel Yared
- Performer John Constable
- Conductor Harry Rabinowitz
- 12:13 – Sonnet (Serenade)
- Singer Ian Bostridge
- Conductor Sir Simon Rattle
- Composer Benjamin Britten
- Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Performer Radek Baborák
- 15:23 – Prelude in G minor Op.23 no.5 (track , The Rachmaninov Experience)
- Composer Sergey Rachmaninov
- Performer Nikolai Lugansky
- 19:05 – L' Orfeo - Sinfonia (track 1, Alia Vox : AVSA9911)
- Performer Jordi Savall
- Orchestra Le Concert des Nations
- Composer Claudio Monteverdi
- 20:37 – Serenade (track 6, UNIVERSAL : UCJ-4763159)
- Composer Franz Schubert
- Orchestra Academy of St Martin in the Fields
- Performer Nicola Benedetti
- Conductor James McMillan
- 24:48 – Danse sacrée et danse profane (track 10, Ravel: Sheherazade / Tombeau / Pavane; Debussy: Danses / Ballades de Villon)
- Composer Claude Debussy
- Orchestra The Cleveland Orchestra
- Conductor Pierre Boulez
- Performer Lisa Wellbaum
- 29:24 – Take all my loves & My love is a fever
- Composer Duke Ellington
- Composer Billy Strayhorn
- Performer Cleo Laine
- Performer John Dankworth