Take 30 minutes out with a relaxing classical mix
Episode m001sf6v, broadcast at Tuesday 21st November 2023, 7:00pm.
“Join us for a journey from joyful exuberance to choral calm. Tonight's mixtape opens with the ebullient Gloria from JS Bach's mighty B minor Mass, dancing through to Carl Davis' glittering Pride and Prejudice theme, Jessye Norman singing Strauss and a sprightly Brazilian dance by Guarnieri. We hear bewitching harmonies from Jocelyn Pook, a haunting arrangement of Tavener's The Lamb for string ensemble, a reflective piano miniature by Peter Gregson and finally, Jan Sandström's slow-motion reimagining of a 17th-century winter hymn, Es ist ein Ros entsprungen. Produced by Christina Kenny for BBC Audio.”
Track listing
- 0:59 – Mass in B minor, BWV 232 (Gloria in excelsis Deo; Et in terra pax) (track 4-5, J.S.Bach: Mass in B Minor BWV 232: John Eliot Gardiner)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Choir Monteverdi Choir
- Ensemble English Baroque Soloists
- 5:41 – Pride and Prejudice (Theme) (track 1, Pride and Prejudice)
- Performer Melvyn Tan
- Conductor Carl Davis
- Orchestra Orchestra
- 9:07 – Im Abendrot (4 Last Songs) (track , Strauss, R.: Four Last Songs; 6 Orchestral Songs - Norman, Gewandhausorchester L)
- Composer Richard Strauss
- Orchestra Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
- Conductor Kurt Masur
- Singer Jessye Norman
- 12:47 – Brazilian Dance (Dances for Orchestra) (track 9, Dancas Brasileiras)
- Orchestra São Paulo Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Roberto Minczuk
- Composer M. Camargo Guarnieri
- 15:06 – How sweet the moonlight (The Merchant of Venice)
- Singer Andreas Scholl
- Performer Elizabeth Kenny
- Composer Jocelyn Pook
- Performer Siobhán Armstrong
- Ensemble Baroque String Quartet
- 19:19 – The Lamb (track 1, Death and the Maiden)
- Composer John Tavener
- Ensemble 12 Ensemble
- 23:07 – Love Came (track , Christmas Calm)
- Performer Peter Gregson
- 25:16 – Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
- Composer Michael Praetorius
- Choir VOCES8
- Music Arranger Jan Sandström