The perfect classical half hour
Episode m0027572, broadcast at Sunday 16th February 2025, 5:30pm, and Monday 27th January 2025, 7:00pm.
“A half an hour of classical music to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, featuring works by Hungarian composer and cellist Pál Hermann, a meditative prayer by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, and the lament of Solveig from Grieg’s incidental music to Peer Gynt. There’s music for Brass Band by David Owen, too, plus Gustav Mahler’s transcendental study about hope.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Hear us in heaven, O God (track 701, Crossing Over)
- Composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir
- Choir Skylark
- Conductor Matthew Guard
- 4:19 – Dafydd y Garreg Wen / David of the White Rock
- Composer Träd
- Music Arranger Gordon Langford
- Performer Besses o’ th’ Barn Band
- Conductor Roy Newsome
- 7:48 – Suite for Piano: III. Lento (track 3, Hermann: Complete Surviving Music, Vol. 1)
- Composer Pál Hermann
- Performer Alina Shevchenko
- 12:24 – Solveig's Song (Peer Gynt Suite No 2, Op 55 No 4)
- Composer Edvard Grieg
- Orchestra Malmö SymfoniOrkester
- Conductor Bjarte Engeset
- 17:15 – Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 63 - III. Langsam, mit inniger Empfindung
- Composer Robert Schumann
- Performer Arnon Erez
- Performer Raphael Wallfisch
- Performer Hagai Shaham
- 23:30 – Urlicht, from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
- Composer Gustav Mahler
- Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor Claudio Abbado
- Singer Anne Sofie von Otter