Half an hour of the finest classical music
Episode m001lc1x, broadcast at Thursday 4th May 2023, 7:00pm.
“Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites including music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Bach, Scarlatti, Richard Rodgers and Mendelssohn.”
Track listing
- 0:01 – Hymn to Nature (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh) (track 201, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov & Lyadov: Works)
- Composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Conductor Dmitri Georgievich Kitayenko
- Orchestra Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
- 4:51 – Sonata in D major Kk.491 (track 16, Murray Perahia plays Handel and Scarlatti)
- Composer Domenico Scarlatti
- Performer Murray Perahia
- 10:09 – My Funny Valentine
- Composer Richard Rodgers
- Composer Lorenz Hart
- Performer Ella Fitzgerald
- 14:01 – Arethusa (Six Metamorphoses after Ovid)
- Composer Benjamin Britten
- Performer Hansjörg Schellenberger
- 16:04 – Orchestral Suite No 4 in G major, BWV 1069 (Overture) (track 13, Bach: Works for Orchestra: The English Concert/Pinnock)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Director Trevor Pinnock
- Ensemble The English Concert
- 23:22 – Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, III. Presto - Molto allegro vivace (track 203, Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos)
- Composer Felix Mendelssohn
- Conductor Michael Alexander Willens
- Orchestra Die Kölner Akademie