Power through with classical music
Episode m001rj9f, broadcast at Thursday 26th October 2023, 7:00pm.
“A 30-minute soundscape of classical music with, among other treasures, renowned pianist Vikingur Olaffson playing Bach's Goldberg Variations, a Kaija Saariaho piece for cello and voice, one of Rachmaninov's mighty Moments Musicaux, a charming piece for orchestra in Myaskovsky's Lyric concertino... closing with José Carreras' rendition of Verdi's celebrated aria for tenor 'Di quella pira', from his opera Il Trovatore. Producer: Juan Carlos Jaramillo”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Lyric concertino in G major op.32 no.3 for orchestra: 3rd mvt Allegro giocoso
- Conductor Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov
- Composer Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky
- Orchestra USSR Symphony Orchestra
- 5:22 – Goldberg Variations, BWV988: Variation 13
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Víkingur Ólafsson
- 9:28 – Uberzeugung
- Conductor Grete Pedersen
- Composer Kaija Saariaho
- Choir Norwegian Soloists Choir
- Orchestra Oslo Sinfonietta
- 11:07 – String Quartet No 14 in G Major, K 387 (4th mvt)
- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ensemble Armida Quartett
- 16:54 – Moments musicaux Op.16 (no.6 in C major) (track 206, Rachmaninoff: Études-tableaux, Op. 39 & 6 Moments musicaux, Op. 16)
- Composer Sergey Rachmaninov
- Performer Boris Giltburg
- 21:50 – Contradance (The Cunning Farmer Girl) (track 22, Wranitzky: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5)
- Composer Paul Wranitsky
- Orchestra Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice
- Conductor Marek Štilec
- 26:12 – Di quella pira (Il trovatore)
- Composer Giuseppe Verdi
- Conductor Colin Davis
- Singer José Carreras
- Orchestra Orchestra of the Royal Opera House