Your daily classical soundtrack
Episode m001v24j, broadcast at Friday 12th January 2024, 7:00pm.
“Half an hour of back to back classical music to help you wind down at the end of the day. Today's sequence includes bluesy strings from Takashi Yoshimatsu, a beautiful orchestral arrangement of a Shakespeare song by Madeleine Dring, ethereal choral music from Imogen Holst, and a touching carol for Epiphany by John Rutter. Producer: Helen Garrison”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Dido & Aeneas: Overture
- Composer Henry Purcell
- Conductor Christopher Hogwood
- Orchestra Academy of Ancient Music
- 1:58 – Take, O Take Those Lips Away (track 18, A Shropshire Lad: English Songs Orchestrated by Roderick Williams)
- Singer Roderick Williams
- Conductor Sir Mark Elder
- Composer Madeleine Dring
- 5:21 – Shed no tear (Welcome joy and welcome sorrow)
- Performer Tanya Houghton
- Choir Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
- Conductor Graham Ross
- Composer Imogen Holst
- 6:48 – French Suite No 5 in G major, BWV 816 (Gavotte) (track 25, J.S. Bach, The French Suites: Angela Hewitt)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Angela Hewitt
- 7:59 – Atom Hearts Club Suite No. 2, Op. 79a: III. Brothers Blues (track 7, Yoshimatsu: Symphony No. 5, Atom Hearts Club Suite No. 2 & Prelude to the Ce)
- Orchestra BBC Philharmonic
- Composer Takashi Yoshimatsu
- Conductor Sachio Fujioka
- 10:27 – Elegie Op.44
- Composer Alexander Glazunov
- Performer Anna Fedorova
- Performer Dana Zemtsov
- 16:53 – Five o'clock Foxtrot
- Composer Maurice Ravel
- Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor Bernard Herrmann
- 20:36 – Etudes-tableaux, Op. 33: No. 6 in E flat minor (track 8, Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 & Études-tableaux, Op. 33)
- Composer Sergey Rachmaninov
- Performer Boris Giltburg
- 22:04 – The Flash "Supergirl" (track , The Flash (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack))
- Composer Benjamin Wallfisch
- Orchestra Chamber Orchestra of London
- 24:40 – Carol of the Magi (track 4, John Rutter: A Song in Season. Cambridge Singers/RPO)
- Conductor John Rutter
- Choir The Cambridge Singers
- Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Singer Gabriel Crouch
- Performer John Birch
- Performer Tim Gill