Switch up your listening with classical music
Episode m0025mh5, broadcast at Wednesday 11th December 2024, 7:00pm.
“Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites, including music by Debussy, Schumann and Elfrida Andree, peppered with festive favourites by Leopold Mozart and Irving Berlin. To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Mixtape””
Track listing
- 0:00 – A musical sleigh ride (track 1, The Night Before Christmas)
- Conductor Barry Wordsworth
- Orchestra BBC Concert Orchestra
- Music Arranger Philip Lane
- Composer Leopold Mozart
- 3:06 – Sonate en trio (Interlude) (track 5, Debussy: Les Chansons de Bilitis etc: The Nash Ensemble)
- Ensemble Nash Ensemble
- Composer Claude Debussy
- 8:32 – Nocturne (Soirees Musicales, Op 6 No 2) (track 11, The bright day is done)
- Composer Clara Schumann
- Performer Finghin Collins
- 13:29 – Oboe Concerto in D minor (2nd mvmt, Adagio) (track 9, 5 Italian Oboe Concertos)
- Performer Nicholas Daniel
- Composer Alessandro Marcello
- Orchestra Peterborough String Orchestra
- 18:08 – String Quartet in D minor (2nd mvt)
- Composer Elfrida Andrée
- Ensemble Stockholm Quartet
- 22:47 – Alma redemptoris mater
- Ensemble The King’s Singers
- Composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
- 25:31 – White Christmas (Arr. J. Heifetz for Violin & Piano) (track 101, White Christmas (Arr. J. Heifetz for Violin & Piano))
- Music Arranger Jascha Heifetz
- Composer Irving Berlin
- Performer Coco Tomita
- Performer Simon Callaghan