The perfect classical half hour
Episode m0024xdx, broadcast at Thursday 21st November 2024, 7:00pm.
“Sit back and relax to half an hour of classical music by Haydn, Chaminade, Schubert, Beethoven, Enescu, Whitacre, Mozart, and Debussy. To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Mixtape” Produced by Zara Siddiqi”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Symphony No 87 in A major (finale) (track 12, Haydn: Complete Paris Symphonies Nos. 82-87)
- Composer Joseph Haydn
- Orchestra Orchestre de chambre de Paris
- Conductor Douglas Boyd
- 4:20 – Thème varié, Op 89 (track 9, Chaminade: Piano Music - 1, Peter Jacobs)
- Composer Cécile Louise Chaminade
- Performer Peter Jacobs
- 9:25 – String Quartet No. 4 in C Major, D. 46 (track 17, Schubert: The String Quartets)
- Composer Franz Schubert
- Ensemble Melos Quartett
- 13:33 – Oboe Trio, Op 87 (3rd mvt) (track 17, Beethoven and Triebensee Oboe Trios)
- Composer Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer Marilyn Zupnik
- Performer Kathryn Greenbank
- Performer Elizabeth Starr Masoudnia
- 16:09 – Cantabile and Presto (track 4-5, Café au lait: Music for Flute and Piano)
- Composer George Enescu
- Performer Sharon Bezaly
- Performer Roland Pöntinen
- 19:40 – Lux Aurumque
- Composer Eric Whitacre
- Director Anna Lapwood
- Choir Pembroke College Girls' Choir
- Choir The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge
- 22:50 – Concerto in C major for flute and harp, K 299 (2nd mvt) (track 2, 100 Best Relaxing Classics)
- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Performer James Galway
- Performer Fritz Helmis
- 26:46 – Children's Corner I. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
- Composer Claude Debussy
- Performer Behzod Abduraimov