Your daily classical soundtrack chosen by Radio 3 listeners
Episode m001sm1l, broadcast at Thursday 30th November 2023, 7:00pm.
“Half and hour of back to back music in a special Classical Mixtape curated by Radio 3 listeners. Many of you contacted us to suggest tracks that you felt would work well in the mix, and this is the result. Sit back and enjoy music for children by Elgar, an organ gigue by Buxtehude, light music by Anthony Collins and references to Spring by Grieg and Beethoven. Producer: Helen Garrison”
Track listing
- 0:59 – The Last Spring (No 2 of Two Elegiac Melodies, Op 34) (track 7, Grieg & Tchaikovsky: Music for String Orchestra)
- Orchestra Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
- Composer Edvard Grieg
- 4:04 – The Wand of youth - suite no.2 Op.1b (The Tame Bear) (track 12, The Wand Of Youth Suites etc.)
- Composer Edward Elgar
- Orchestra Hallé
- Conductor Sir Mark Elder
- 6:43 – The Wand of youth - suite no.2 Op.1b (The Tame Bear) (track 13, The Wand Of Youth Suites etc.)
- Composer Edward Elgar
- Orchestra Hallé
- Conductor Sir Mark Elder
- 8:56 – Fugue in C major BuxWV.174 'alla gigue' (track 3, Buxtehude - The Complete Organ Works 1)
- Composer Dieterich Buxtehude
- Performer Christopher Herrick
- 11:45 – Bassoon Concerto in F major, Op 75 (3rd mvt) (track 12, Bassoon concertos, Mozart/M Haydn/Stamitz/Weber)
- Conductor Douglas Boyd
- Orchestra Manchester Camerata
- Performer Laurence Perkins
- Composer Carl Maria von Weber
- 16:15 – Violin Sonata no.5 in F major, Op.24 'Spring' (1st mvt) (track 1, Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Volume 2: Alina Ibragimova/ Cédric Tiberghien)
- Composer Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer Cédric Tiberghien
- Performer Alina Ibragimova
- 25:35 – Vanity Fair for orchestra (track , British Light Music Classics: The New London Orchestra/Ronald Corp)
- Conductor Ronald Corp
- Performer Julian Leaper
- Composer Anthony Collins
- Orchestra New London Orchestra