The perfect classical half hour
Episode m0022k42, broadcast at Friday 13th September 2024, 7:00pm.
“Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites - Handel's Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, the gavotte from Stravinsky's Pulcinella and the Rose Adagio from Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty. Also in the mix is a spiky piano sonatina by Doreen Carwithen, an elegant string quartet by Joseph Bologne and Paul Maelor's beautiful setting of Lord Byron's 'She Walks In Beauty'. Producer: Ian Wallington”
Track listing
- 0:06 – Sinfonia, 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba' (Solomon) (track 5, Pachelbel/Handel/Vivaldi/Gluck: Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood)
- Composer George Frideric Handel
- Conductor Christopher Hogwood
- Orchestra Academy of Ancient Music
- 3:20 – Piano Sonatina (III. Allegro molto) (track 8, Neglected Works For Piano)
- Performer Bengt Forsberg
- Composer Doreen Carwithen
- 7:57 – Concertante Quartet No 5 in G major (2nd mvmt, Gratioso) (track 502, Saint-Georges: 6 Quartetto concertans)
- Composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
- Ensemble Arabella String Quartet
- 12:52 – She walks in beauty (track 5, Paul Mealor: A Tender Light: Tenebrae/RPO/Short)
- Conductor Nigel Short
- Choir Tenebrae
- Composer Paul Mealor
- 17:33 – Gavotta con due variazioni (Pulcinella Suite) (track 18, Stravinsky Apollon Musagete and Pulcinella Suite)
- Composer Igor Stravinsky
- Orchestra Chamber Orchestra of Europe
- Conductor Alexander Janiczek
- 21:30 – Rose Adagio (The Sleeping beauty Op.66) (track 17, Sleeping Beauty (Complete))
- Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Orchestra Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
- Conductor Mark Ermler