Switch up your listening with classical music
Episode m00236kx, broadcast at Thursday 3rd October 2024, 7:00pm.
“Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites including Handel's See, the Conqu'ring Hero Comes!, The Bell Song from Delibes' opera Lakme and the main theme from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Along the way there is also Stephen Hough's waltz arrangement of Strauss' Radetzky March, Errollyn Wallen's Chorale for String Orchestra, Villa-Lobos' Choros No.1 for guitar and Saturday Night Waltz from Copland's ballet Rodeo. Producer: Ian Wallington”
Track listing
- 0:00 – 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
- 1:16 – Radetzky Waltz [after Johann Strauss I]
- Performer Stephen Hough
- 6:32 – Où va la jeune hindoue (Lakmé) (track 103, Mirages)
- Orchestra Les Siècles
- Conductor François‐Xavier Roth
- Composer Léo Delibes
- Singer Sabine Devieilhe
- 12:13 – Chorale for string orchestra (track 1201, Timelapse)
- Composer Errollyn Wallen
- Orchestra Orchestra of the Swan
- Director David Le Page
- 17:20 – Chôros No. 1 (track 901, Pereira, Villa-Lobos, Reis & Others: Works for Guitar)
- Composer Heitor Villa‐Lobos
- Performer Pedro Aguiar
- 21:38 – Saturday Night Waltz (Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo) (track 3, Copland Orchestral Works,)
- Composer Aaron Copland
- Orchestra English Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor William Boughton
- Performer John Wallace
- Performer Paul Arden-Taylor
- 26:07 – Suite from Swan Lake, Op. 20a: I. Scene. Moderato (track 1, Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 1-6; Ballet music, etc)
- Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Orchestra The Philadelphia Orchestra
- Conductor Riccardo Muti