Half an hour of the finest classical music
Episode m001rr2p, broadcast at Tuesday 31st October 2023, 7:00pm.
“Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, including the end credits from Danny Elfman's score to the film The Nightmare Before Christmas and Robert McBride's Pumpkin Eater's Little Fugue. Plus, the aria from Bach's Goldberg Variations and Bartok's Transylvanian Dances. Produced by Calantha Bonnissent”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Pumpkin Eater's Little Fugue
- Orchestra New Symphony Orchestra of London
- Composer Robert McBride
- Conductor Tutti Camarata
- 2:08 – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Aria)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Alexandre Tharaud
- 11:23 – Romanian Folk Dances for piano (Transylvanian Stamping Dance) (track 7, Dance: Works for piano: Kathryn Stott)
- Composer Béla Bartók
- Performer Kathryn Stott
- 11:23 – Twilight [Videvik] - symphonic poem (track 301, Eller: Symphonic Poems)
- Composer Heino Eller
- Orchestra Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Olari Elts
- 12:09 – Now sleeps the crimson petal (track 1, Paul Mealor: A Tender Light: Tenebrae/RPO/Short)
- Conductor Nigel Short
- Choir Tenebrae
- Composer Paul Mealor
- 15:25 – Elegy (Two Pieces for String Quartet) (track 13, Shostakovich Chamber Works)
- Ensemble Brodsky Quartet
- Composer Dmitry Shostakovich
- 20:26 – Flower Duet (Lakmé)
- Singer Joan Sutherland
- Conductor Richard Bonynge
- Composer Léo Delibes
- Singer Jane Berbié
- Orchestra Monte Carlo Opera Orchestra
- 22:51 – Study in A flat major, Op 25 No 1
- Composer Frédéric Chopin
- Performer Lang Lang
- 25:40 – End Credits (track 21, The Nightmare Before Christmas)
- Performer Danny Elfman
- Conductor J.A.C. Redford