30 minutes of classical inspiration
Episode m0025mzn, broadcast at Sunday 15th December 2024, 5:30pm, and Tuesday 10th December 2024, 7:00pm.
“Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites including Dido's Lament from Purcell's opera; the soundtrack to the 2005 Pride and Prejudice; and some festival carols from composers Benjamin Britten and Cecilia McDowall. To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Mixtape”. Produced by Zerlina Vulliamy.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Chaconne (Dardanus Suite) (track 22, The Lully Effect)
- Composer Jean‐Philippe Rameau
- Orchestra Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra
- Conductor Barthold Kuijken
- 4:35 – O Oriens
- Composer Cecilia McDowall
- Choir The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Conductor Stephen Layton
- 8:58 – Pride and Prejudice (End Credits) (track 17, Pride and Prejudice: 15th Anniversary Edition)
- Orchestra English Chamber Orchestra
- Performer Jean‐Yves Thibaudet
- Conductor Benjamin Wallfisch
- Composer Dario Marianelli
- 13:39 – When I am laid in earth (from Dido and Aeneas)
- Composer Henry Purcell
- Orchestra Il Pomo d’Oro
- Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev
- Singer Joyce DiDonato
- 17:36 – String Quartet in E flat major, D.87 (3rd mvt) (track 3, Schubert: String Quartets D87 & D887: Cuarteto Casals)
- Composer Franz Schubert
- Ensemble Casals Quartet
- 22:57 – A Boy was Born (Corpus Christi Carol/In the Bleak Midwinter)
- Composer Benjamin Britten
- Conductor Stephen Layton
- Choir St Paul's Cathedral Choir