Expand your horizons with classical music
Episode m001xfl0, broadcast at Friday 29th March 2024, 7:00pm.
“Wind down with half an hour of back-to-back classical music with this meditative edition of the Classical Mixtape. Reflecting on the broader themes of Christian Holy Week, the sequence features old and new music inspired by the Passion story, including works by Handel, Haydn, Buxtehude, Knut Nystedt and John Sheppard, alongside reflections on life and death by William Grant Still and Vaughan Williams, and in a touching arrangement of an Icelandic folk song performed by Vikingur Ólafsson. Producer: Helen Garrison”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Brockes-Passion (Sinfonia)
- Composer George Frideric Handel
- Orchestra Academy of Ancient Music
- Director Richard Egarr
- 3:52 – Where life and death may dwell
- Composer Trad.
- Music Arranger Víkingur Ólafsson
- 5:29 – The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross, Hob.XX.1b: Introduction
- Composer Joseph Haydn
- Ensemble Callino Quartet
- 10:57 – O Crux
- Conductor Grete Pedersen
- Composer Knut Nystedt
- Choir Norwegian Soloists Choir
- 19:00 – Grief
- Composer William Grant Still
- Singer Lucas Meachem
- Performer Irina Meachem
- 22:21 – 3 Preludes Founded on Welsh Hymn Tunes: No. 2, Rhosymedre (Orch. Foster) (track 13, 100 Best British Classics)
- Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Orchestra Academy of St Martin in the Fields
- Conductor Neville Marriner