30 minutes of classical inspiration
Episode m001sf66, broadcast at Friday 24th November 2023, 7:00pm.
“Radio 3's half-hour of unpresented classical music to ease you into the evening. Tonight's mix includes reflective piano from Ravel, a buoyant Brandenburg Concerto from Bach, and beautiful chamber music by Fanny Mendelssohn. Plus, Maestro Leonard Bernstein gets things off to a flier with his Overture to Candide. Producer: David Fay.”
Track listing
- 0:15 – Candide (Overture) (track , Simon Rattle on EMI Classics)
- Conductor Sir Simon Rattle
- Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Composer Leonard Bernstein
- 4:23 – Oiseaux tristes (Miroirs) (track 6, Ravel, The Piano Concertos: Aimard/Cleveland Orchestra/Boulez)
- Composer Maurice Ravel
- Performer Pierre‐Laurent Aimard
- 8:25 – Emendemus in Melius
- Composer William Byrd
- Ensemble The Gesualdo Six
- 12:32 – La catedral (3rd mvt)
- Performer Thibaut Garcia
- Composer Agustín Barrios Mangoré
- 15:26 – Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major, BWV 1048 (2nd mvt) (track 15, J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos: Concerto Italiano)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini
- Orchestra Concerto Italiano
- 19:43 – Piano Quartet in A flat major (2nd mvt: Larghetto) (track 10, Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Sextet, Piano Quartet, Piano Trio)
- Composer Fanny Mendelssohn
- Ensemble Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
- 24:09 – Symphony No. 84 in E-Flat Major, "In Nomine Domini": (4th mvt Finale) (track 204, Haydn: Complete Paris Symphonies Nos. 82-87)
- Composer Joseph Haydn
- Orchestra Orchestre de chambre de Paris
- Conductor Douglas Boyd