Half an hour of the finest classical music
Episode m001khb0, broadcast at Monday 3rd April 2023, 7:00pm.
“Radio 3's specially-curated 30-minute music mix to usher in your evening. Tonight’s mixtape includes passion from Haydn and Gesualdo, serenity from cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and a homesick Louis Armstrong. Plus Eric Coates takes us to Covent Garden. Produced by David Fay.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Covent Garden (London (London every day) suite)
- Orchestra BBC Philharmonic
- Performer Rumon Gamba
- Composer Eric Coates
- 4:49 – Ave Maria
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Yo‐Yo Ma
- Composer Charles Gounod
- Performer Kathryn Stott
- 7:26 – Symphony no.49 in F minor H.1.49 'La Passione' (2nd mvt) (track 3, La Passione: Nono, Haydn & Grisey)
- Composer Joseph Haydn
- Orchestra Ludwig
- Conductor Barbara Hannigan
- 13:32 – Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? (track 13, Louis Armstrong: The Best of the Complete RCA Victor Recordings)
- Performer Louis Armstrong
- Performer Louis Armstrong & His Dixieland Seven
- 16:30 – Etudes d'execution transcendante S.139 for piano; No 5, Feux-Follets
- Composer Franz Liszt
- Performer Kirill Gerstein
- 20:27 – Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday (In monte Oliveti) (track 201, Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres – Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursd)
- Conductor Nigel Short
- Choir Tenebrae
- Composer Carlo Gesualdo
- 25:08 – Symphony No 10 in E minor, Op 93 (2nd mvt)
- Composer Dmitry Shostakovich
- Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor Kirill Petrenko