The perfect classical half hour
Episode m0024fzv, broadcast at Sunday 1st December 2024, 5:30pm, and Tuesday 5th November 2024, 7:00pm.
“A 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites including Debussy's atmospheric 'La Cathedrale Engloutie' evoking an ancient, sunken cathedral; Marianna Martines' baroque symphony; Pablo Casal's 'Song of the Birds' and finishing with choral composer Eleanor Daley's beautiful anthem. Produced by Zerlina Vulliamy.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – La cathédrale engloutie (Preludes, Book 1) (track 10, Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.1: Bavouzet)
- Composer Claude Debussy
- Performer Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
- 5:58 – Symphony in C Major: 2nd mvt (track 202, Martines: Symphony in C Major, Psalms 110 & 151)
- Ensemble Salzburger Hofmusik
- Conductor Wolfgang Brunner
- Composer Marianna Martines
- 9:20 – Movement, Before All Flowers
- Performer Max Richter
- Performer Max Baillie
- Performer Eloisa‐Fleur Thom
- Performer Max Ruisi
- Performer Zara Hudson‐Kozdoj
- Performer Connie Pharoah
- 13:35 – Piano Concerto No.1; 2. Andante
- Performer Stephen Hough
- Conductor Andrew Litton
- Composer Sergey Rachmaninov
- Orchestra Dallas Symphony Orchestra
- 19:15 – Song of the Birds
- Composer Pau Casals
- Performer Harriet Krijgh
- Orchestra Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic
- Conductor Gustavo Gimeno
- 23:02 – French Suite No 5 in G major, BWV 816 (Loure) (track 27, J.S. Bach, The French Suites: Angela Hewitt)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Angela Hewitt
- 25:10 – Upon Your Heart (track 13, All Things Are Quite Silent)
- Conductor Anna Lapwood
- Choir Pembroke College Girls' Choir
- Composer Eleanor Daley
- Choir The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge