Classical music for your journey
Episode m0023yl4, broadcast at Friday 25th October 2024, 7:00pm.
“An engaging mix of classical music for half an hour, featuring Vikingur Olafsson’s transcription of the chorus from Bach’s Cantata No. 21 - Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis – as well as piano music by Brahms, plus Hugi Gudmundsson sets the poetry of Snorri Hjartarson, and Amja Lechner plays Carl Friedrich Abel’s melancholic Arpeggio”
Track listing
- 0:31 – Violin concerto in D major Op. Post. no.2 - 2nd movement, Allegro (track 2, Saint-George: Complete Violin Concertos, Vol.2)
- Composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
- Performer Zhou Qian
- Orchestra Toronto Camerata
- Conductor Kevin Mallon
- 5:50 – Arpeggio in D minor
- Composer Carl Friedrich Abel
- Performer Anja Lechner
- 9:19 – 4 Ballades Op.10 (no.1 in D minor 'Edward') (track 1, Brahms: Piano Works)
- Composer Johannes Brahms
- Performer Alexandre Kantorow
- 14:53 – String Quartet D. 810 Death and the Maiden; 3rd mvt. (track 4, Death and the Maiden)
- Composer Franz Schubert
- Ensemble 12 Ensemble
- 18:53 – Il barbiere di Siviglia: Largo al factotum (Arr. for Cello & Orchestra) (track 7, Pop Songs)
- Orchestra BBC Philharmonic
- Composer Gioachino Rossini
- Performer Jan Vogler
- Conductor Omer Meir Wellber
- 23:24 – Hvíld [Rest] for chorus (track 9, Vökuró)
- Composer Hugi Guðmundsson
- Lyricist Snorri Hjartarson
- Choir Graduale Nobili
- Conductor Þorvaldur Örn Davíðsson
- 26:23 – Cantata no. 21 BWV.21 (Ich hatte viel Bekummernis) - Chorus
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Music Arranger Víkingur Ólafsson