The perfect classical half hour
Episode m0026ktt, broadcast at Sunday 19th January 2025, 5:30pm, and Monday 6th January 2025, 7:00pm.
“Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites.”
Track listing
- 0:06 – Concerto after sonata da chiesa in D minor (1st mvt) (track 20, Italian Concertos; Alison Balsom, Scottish Ensemble)
- Performer Alison Balsom
- Ensemble Scottish Ensemble
- Composer Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
- 2:27 – Prelude 10
- Performer Fiona Brice
- 6:15 – Theodora: "To thee thou glorious son of worth"
- Composer George Frideric Handel
- Director Thomas Dunford
- Singer Iestyn Davies
- Singer Lea Desandre
- Ensemble Jupiter
- 11:05 – Sicilienne
- Composer Maria Theresia von Paradis
- Composer Samuel Dushkin
- Performer Ian Brown
- Performer Maurice Hasson
- 14:12 – Elegy, Op 58
- Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Composer Edward Elgar
- Conductor Sir Andrew Davis
- 18:36 – Sleep (track 10, Eric Whitacre, Choral Music: Elora Festival Singers)
- Composer Eric Whitacre
- Choir Elora Festival Singers
- Conductor Noel Edison
- 22:58 – String Quartet in G minor (Romance)
- Composer Sergey Rachmaninov
- Performer Borodin Quartet