The perfect classical half hour
Episode m001gtr4, broadcast at Monday 9th January 2023, 7:00pm.
“Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites mixed with jazz, folk and music from around the world. This edition of the mixtape begins with Florence Price's Colonial Dance and the movement 'The Fog is Lifting' from Carl Nielsen's incidental music The Mother. The mixtape slows the pace with Olga Scheps' piano performance of the Family Theme from Hans Zimmer's score for 'Blue Planet'. Julian Arcas's Bolero in A Minor leads into Home, a piece composed by Ramin Djawadi for the seventh series of Game of Thrones. The Romance movement from Shostakovitch's score for the film The Gadfly then leads into Sheku Kanneh-Mason's performance of the Northumbrian folk song Blow The Wind Southerly, followed by the Andante movement from Dvorak's "American" Suite in A Major. The mixtape draws to a conclusion with the Epilogue movement of Vaughan-Williams' String Quartet no. 2 in A Minor and Aunt Marge's Waltz taken from the John Williams score for 'Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban'. Producer: James Rushworth”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Colonial Dance (Version for Orchestra) (track 5, Price: Songs of the Oak)
- Composer Florence Price
- Conductor John Jeter
- Orchestra Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen
- 4:10 – The fog is lifting (The Mother, Op 41) (track 7, James Galway plays Nielsen)
- Composer Carl Nielsen
- Performer James Galway
- Performer Sioned Williams
- 6:14 – Family Theme (from "Blue Planet") (track 19, Family)
- Composer Hans Zimmer
- Composer Jacob Shea
- Composer David Fleming
- Composer Billie Ray Fingers
- Composer Bruce Fingers
- Performer Olga Scheps
- 8:43 – Bolero in A Minor (track 11, Llobet / Tàrrega / Arcas / Aguado / Antonio José: Spanish Music for Guitar)
- Composer Julián Arcas
- Performer Carles Trepat
- 10:32 – Home (track 12, Game Of Thrones: Season 7 (Music from the HBO Series))
- Performer Ramin Djawadi
- 12:54 – Romance (The Gadfly Suite, Op 97a)
- Orchestra Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Conductor Riccardo Chailly
- Composer Dmitry Shostakovich
- Performer Alexander Kerr
- 16:39 – Blow the Wind Southerly
- Composer Trad.
- Music Arranger Sheku Kanneh-Mason
- 18:53 – String Quartet No 2 (Epilogue: Greetings from Joan to Jean)
- Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Ensemble Maggini Quartet
- 23:22 – Suite in A major, Op 98b, mvt. 4: Andante (track 8, Dvorak:Symphony no. 7 Suite in A major,Budapest Festival Orchestra,Ivan Fischer)
- Composer Antonín Dvořák
- Orchestra Budapest Festival Orchestra
- Conductor Iván Fischer
- 27:18 – Aunt Marge's Waltz (from "Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban") (track 13, The Essential Harry Potter Film Music Collection)
- Orchestra City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
- Composer John Williams
- Conductor Evan Jolly