Expand your horizons with classical music
Episode m0021q1n, broadcast at Friday 16th August 2024, 7:00pm.
“Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites including Britten's arrangements of Rossini in Soirees Musicales, Bach's Sheep May Safely Graze orchestrated by Stokowski and Mozart's Laudate Dominum sung by Danielle de Niese. Also in the mix are Sally Beamish's depiction of a boardwalk in California, the beautiful slow movement of Shostakovich's second piano concerto and Albeniz's Capricho Catalan played by the Tierolff Saxophone Quartet. Producer: Ian Wallington”
Track listing
- 3:52 – Soirées musicales, Op 9 (after Rossini) (track 9-11, Britten: Young Person's Guide etc.)
- Composer Benjamin Britten
- Conductor Richard Bonynge
- Orchestra National Philharmonic Orchestra
- 5:47 – Sheep may safely graze (Cantata No 208) (track 1, Stokowski's Symphonic Bach)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Orchestra BBC Philharmonic
- Conductor Matthias Bamert
- Orchestrator Leopold Stokowski
- 11:17 – Laudate Dominum (Vesperae solennes de confessore K.339) (track 12, The Mozart Album: Danielle de Niese/OAE/Mackerras)
- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Singer Danielle de Niese
- Orchestra Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
- Conductor Charles Mackerras
- Choir The Apollo Voices
- 15:46 – String Quartet No. 2, "Opus California": 1st mvt Boardwalk (track 9, Beamish / Beethoven - String Quartets - Emperor Quartet)
- Composer Sally Beamish
- Ensemble Emperor Quartet
- 17:48 – Piano Concerto no.2 in F major Op.102 (2nd mvt) (track 7, Warsaw Concerto: Jean-Yves Thibaudet)
- Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Composer Dmitry Shostakovich
- Performer Jean‐Yves Thibaudet
- Conductor Hugh Wolff
- 25:00 – España, Op. 165 IIA 16: V. Capricho Catalán (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet) (track 1, España, Op. 165 IIA 16: V. Capricho Catalán (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet)
- Composer Isaac Albéniz
- Ensemble Tierolff Saxophone Quartet