Your daily classical soundtrack
Episode m0020hx0, broadcast at Wednesday 3rd July 2024, 7:00pm.
“Half an hour of back to back classical music to help you wind down at the end of a busy day. Sit back and imagine being whisked away by a whirling waltz from Gustav Holst, then being calmed by a Rachmaninov prelude, and serenaded by the clear voice of Emma Kirkby singing a lute song by Robert Jones. The theme from the film "Ladies in Lavender" continues the lyrical mood, but not for too long, as Kodaly peps things up with his joyous music from the Hary Janos suite. After that, allow the luminous sound of Voces8 wash over you with the ravishing choral writing of Rebecca Dale, along with the 12 cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic playing "Windmills of your mind". Producer: Helen Garrison”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Suite de ballet in E flat major, Op 10 (Valse) (track 2, Holst: The Wandering Scholar etc. Northern Sinfonia/Hickox)
- Composer Gustav Holst
- Conductor Richard Hickox
- Orchestra Royal Northern Sinfonia
- 3:41 – Prelude in E flat major, Op.23 no.6
- Performer Vladimir Ashkenazy
- Composer Sergey Rachmaninov
- 6:37 – When will the fountain (track 9, Robert Jones: The Muses Gardin - Lute songs: Kirkby/Rooley)
- Singer Emma Kirkby
- Performer Anthony Rooley
- Composer Robert Jones
- 10:29 – March (Judas Maccabeus) (track 18, Let The Bright Seraphim Works by J.S. Bach, Telemann, A.Scarlatti and Handel)
- Composer George Frideric Handel
- Music Arranger Crispian Steele‐Perkins
- Orchestra Armonico Consort
- 11:54 – Ladies in Lavender (track 8, The Silver Violin: Nicola Benedetti)
- Orchestra Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Performer Nicola Benedetti
- Composer Nigel Hess
- Conductor Kirill Karabits
- 15:17 – Little Prelude No 4 in D major, BWV 936 (track 4, J.S. Bach, The French Suites: Angela Hewitt)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Angela Hewitt
- 17:22 – Intermezzo (Hary Janos Suite, Op.35a) (track 15, Kodaly: "Hary Janos" Suite: Fischer)
- Orchestra Budapest Festival Orchestra
- Conductor Iván Fischer
- Composer Zoltán Kodály
- 21:55 – Winter
- Performer Huw Watkins
- Choir VOCES8
- Performer Mari Samuelsen
- Performer Håkon Samuelsen
- Composer Rebecca Dale
- 26:42 – The Windmills of Your Mind (track 113, As Time Goes By)
- Ensemble Die 12 Cellisten der Berliner Philharmoniker
- Composer Michel Legrand
- Music Arranger Michail Tsygutkin