The perfect classical half hour
Episode m001tsvb, broadcast at Friday 5th January 2024, 7:00pm.
“Schubert songs with orchestra begin and end this Mixtape, which takes us through a piano version of a Bach aria, Michael Nyman's music for the film The Piano, Yo-Yo Ma playing a sea shanty, and Percy Grainger's sparkly Handel in the Strand. Producer Roger Short.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – An Sylvia D.891 (track 1, Schubert Revisited: Lieder Arranged for Baritone and Orchestra)
- Composer Franz Schubert
- Orchestra Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
- Singer Matthias Goerne
- Music Arranger Alexander Schmalcz
- Conductor Florian Donderer
- 2:50 – Air from Cantata BWV 36 transc Saint-Saens (track 15, Bach: Piano Transcriptions, Saint-Saens & Philipp: Nadejda Vlaeva)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Nadejda Vlaeva
- 6:06 – The Heart Asks Pleasure First (Theme from The Piano) (track 16, Emotions)
- Composer Michael Nyman
- Performer Jérôme Ducros
- Performer Gautier Capuçon
- Orchestra Orchestre de chambre de Paris
- Conductor Adrien Perruchon
- 9:40 – College Hornpipe (track 9, Heartland: An Appalachian Anthology: Ma/Meyer/O'Connor/Bell)
- Performer Yo‐Yo Ma
- Composer Trad.
- Music Arranger Edgar Meyer
- Music Arranger Mark O’Connor
- 13:04 – Handel in the Strand (track 016, Grainger Edition Vol. 5 Works for Chorus and Orchestra 2)
- Orchestra City of London Sinfonia
- Conductor Richard Hickox
- Composer Percy Grainger
- Performer Geoffrey Tozer
- 16:43 – Organ Concerto in F major, HWV 295, 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale' (4th mvt)
- Composer George Frideric Handel
- Orchestra Vienna Philharmonic
- Performer Martin Haselböck
- 19:52 – String Quintet in B flat major, K 174 (4th mvt) (track 4, Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists)
- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Performer Heinz-Otto Graf
- Ensemble Heutling-Quartett
- 25:15 – Alinde, D. 904 (Arr. Schmalcz for Baritone and Chamber Orchestra) (track 55, The Most Beautiful Songs by Franz Schubert)
- Composer Franz Schubert
- Orchestra Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
- Singer Matthias Goerne
- Music Arranger Alexander Schmalcz
- Conductor Florian Donderer
- Lyricist Johann Friedrich Rochlitz