The perfect classical half hour
Episode m001n2bh, broadcast at Friday 30th June 2023, 7:00pm.
“Wind down with 30 minutes of uninterrupted music beginning with a Will-o'-the-wisp by Liszt and a musette based on music by Satie. While pianist Stephen Hough brings some glitz via a Saint-Saens's Piano Concerto, Yo-Yo Ma and friends calm things down with their take on a Bach chorale prelude. The programme ends with the sublime Ave Maria by Schubert and the joyful finale of Dvorak's American Quartet.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Transcendental Study in B flat major S.139 no.5 (track 5, 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2)
- Composer Franz Liszt
- Performer Alice Sara Ott
- 3:51 – A New Satiesfaction [Gymnopedie no.1] (track 1, The Golden Age)
- Composer Erik Satie
- Performer Stephan Koncz
- Performer Ray Chen
- Performer Noah Bendix-Balgley
- Performer Amihai Grosz
- 8:19 – Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 22 (3rd mvt) (track 6, Saint-Saens: The Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra: Stephen Hough, CBSO, Or)
- Performer Stephen Hough
- Composer Camille Saint‐Saëns
- Orchestra City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Sakari Oramo
- 14:18 – Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 (track 005, YO-Yo Ma, Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer's Bach Trios)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Yo‐Yo Ma
- Performer Chris Thile
- Performer Edgar Meyer
- 18:52 – Ellens Gesang 3 (Ave Maria), D 839
- Composer Franz Schubert
- Singer Ailish Tynan
- Performer Christopher Glynn
- 24:44 – String Quartet in F major, Op 96, 'American' (Finale) (track 4, Dvorak: Quatuor op. 96 "Americain": Jerusalem Quartet)
- Composer Antonín Dvořák
- Ensemble Jerusalem Quartet