The perfect classical half hour
Episode m001r96s, broadcast at Wednesday 12th June 2024, 7:00pm, and Friday 20th October 2023, 7:00pm.
“Two recorders take centre stage at the start of tonight's mixtape, in an arrangement of Handel's The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba. The third movement of Emily Mayer's seventh symphony is followed by Ja vim from Dvořák's Cyprise for string quartet. Plus music by the English composers Malcom Arnold and William Cornish, and we round off with the guitarist Julian Bream playing Villa-Lobos. Producer: Kevin Satizabal Carrascal”
Track listing
- 0:00 – The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (arr for recorders and orchestra) (track 2, Baroque Journey)
- Composer George Frideric Handel
- Director Bojan Čičić
- Orchestra Academy of Ancient Music
- Performer Lucie Horsch
- Performer Charlotte Barbour-Condini
- 2:53 – Symphony No 7 in F minor (3rd mvmt, Scherzo) (track 107, Emilie Mayer: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7)
- Composer Emilie Mayer
- Conductor Jan Willem de Vriend
- Orchestra NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
- 9:41 – Cypresses (No 1)
- Composer Antonín Dvořák
- Ensemble Hagen Quartett
- 14:17 – Ah Robin (track 2, Simunye)
- Music Arranger Roderick Williams
- Choir The SDASA Chorale
- Ensemble I Fagiolini
- Composer William Cornysh
- 18:27 – Little suite for orchestra No 2 (Ballad) (track 8, Arnold: Concerto for 28 players etc.: City of London Sinfonia/Hickox)
- Orchestra City of London Sinfonia
- Conductor Richard Hickox
- Composer Malcolm Arnold
- 22:26 – Impromptu in B minor, Op.5 no.5
- Composer Jean Sibelius
- Performer Leif Ove Andsnes
- 26:05 – Schottisch-Choro (Suite populaire bresilienne)
- Composer Heitor Villa‐Lobos
- Performer Julian Bream