The perfect classical half hour
Episode m001cyqk, broadcast at Friday 21st October 2022, 7:00pm.
“A joyful journey through popular classics from Zespedes's toe-tapping Guaracha Ay que me abraso, performed by La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Jordi Savall, to Chopin's Waltz in A flat major, 'L'Adieu', also with Gade's Copenhangen Life waltz, Bartok's Romanian Dances, and Gabriel Jackson's Cecilia virgo for chorus. Producer: Elizabeth Arno”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Ay que me abraso; El Arrancazacate (track 20, El Nuevo Mundo: Folías Criollas)
- Conductor Jordi Savall
- Ensemble Hespèrion XXI
- Choir La Capella Reial de Catalunya
- Ensemble Tembembe Ensamble Continuo
- Composer Juan García de Zéspedes
- 3:18 – Copenhagen Life - Waltz (track 13, Jakob Gade: Jealousy - suites: Odense Symhony Orchestra/Aeschbacher)
- Orchestra Odense Symfoniorkester
- Composer Jacob Gade
- Conductor Matthias Aeschbacher
- 8:04 – Romanian Folk Dances
- Composer Béla Bartók
- Performer Isabelle Faust
- Performer Florent Boffard
- 13:35 – Cecilia virgo (track , Jackson: Not no faceless Angel: Polyphony, Stephen Layton)
- Conductor Stephen Layton
- Choir Polyphony
- Composer Gabriel Jackson
- 21:18 – Symphony No 8 in F major, Op 93 (2nd mvt) (track 6, The Beethoven Symphonies: Live from the Edinburgh Festival)
- Composer Ludwig van Beethoven
- Conductor Charles Mackerras
- Orchestra Scottish Chamber Orchestra
- 25:14 – Waltz in A flat major, Op 69 No 1, 'L'Adieu' (track 9, Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy)
- Composer Frédéric Chopin
- Performer Vladimir Ashkenazy