The perfect classical half hour
Episode m0023p3m, broadcast at Thursday 17th October 2024, 7:00pm.
“Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites, including an autumnal 'sigh' by Ravel and a Festival Scherzo by Madeleine Dring. Producer: Laura Yogasundram”
Track listing
- 0:33 – Soupir (3 Poems of Stephane Mallarme)
- Composer Maurice Ravel
- Singer Dawn Upshaw
- Ensemble Unnamed ensemble
- 4:17 – Voluntary for my Lady Nevell (track 7, c.1300-c.2000)
- Composer William Byrd
- Performer Jeremy Denk
- 7:49 – There Is Sweet Music (4 Choral songs Op.53) (track 9, Music Of The Spheres: Part Songs Of The British Isles)
- Conductor Nigel Short
- Composer Edward Elgar
- Choir Tenebrae
- 12:13 – Festival Scherzo
- Composer Madeleine Dring
- Performer Martin Roscoe
- Ensemble Guildhall String Ensemble
- Conductor Robert Salter
- 16:39 – Cello Sonata no.1 in C minor Op.32 (2nd mvt) (track 402, Cello Music from Proust's Salons)
- Composer Camille Saint‐Saëns
- Performer Steven Isserlis
- Performer Connie Shih
- 21:49 – Horn Concerto no.3 in E flat major K.447 (3rd mvt) (track 6, Mozart: Horn Concertos & Bassoon Concerto)
- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Orchestra Les Violons du Roy
- Conductor Mathieu Lussier
- Performer Louis‐Philippe Marsolais
- 25:11 – Impromptu in E flat major, D 899 No 2 (track 2, Schubert: Impromptus, Op. 90 & 142; Murray Perahia)
- Composer Franz Schubert
- Performer Murray Perahia