Classical music to inspire you
Episode m0013385, broadcast at Friday 7th January 2022, 7:00pm.
“Christmas is celebrated today in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and tonight's mixtape includes choral music in Russian and in Arabic. There's also a quartet movement by Emilie Mayer, a serene nocturne from Arnold Schoenberg, and music for three marimbas and three vibraphones by Chris Fitkin.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Hail, O Virgin     (track 012, Orthodox Chants) - Composer Trad.
- Ensemble Optina Pustyn
 
- 1:26 – String Quartet in G minor Op.14  (3rd mvt)    - Composer Emilie Mayer
- Ensemble Klenke Quartett
 
- 8:26 – Sextet    - Ensemble Piano Circus
- Composer Chris Fitkin
 
- 15:24 – Byzantine Hymn of the Nativity     (track , Paramon of the Nativity) - Composer Anonymous
- Performer Nader Hajjar
 
- 18:50 – Vox dliecti mei (Song of Songs)    - Choir The Sixteen
- Conductor Harry Christophers
- Composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
 
- 21:01 – Notturno     (track 012, Arnold Schoenberg - Orchestral Works) - Conductor Stefan Blunier
- Composer Arnold Schoenberg
- Orchestra Beethoven Orchestra Bonn
 
- 24:17 – Now let thy servant depart in peace     (track 011, Orthodox Chants) - Composer V Kurbatov
- Ensemble Optina Pustyn
 
- 28:04 – Symphony No.2 "Kenotaph", 3rd movement (scherzo)    - Performer Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Hannu Lintu
- Composer Thomas Larcher