The Private Passions mix
Episode m0029pvh, broadcast at Tuesday 15th April 2025, 7:00pm.
“A half-hour mix of uninterrupted classical music, perfect for your end-of-day wind-down. To celebrate 30 years of Radio 3's Private Passions, this special Classical Mixtape has been curated from suggestions by the programme's presenter Michael Berkeley of music tracks that have featured on the programme. Some of the tracks have been popular choices, picked by multiple guests over the years, and others have been new to Michael and made a lasting impression on him. The choices include John Tavener's The Lamb, one of Strauss's Four Last Songs, Stravinsky's Rag Time, and tracks by celebrated singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Cesária Évora.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Four Last Songs: No. 2, September
- Orchestra Berliner Philharmoniker
- Composer Richard Strauss
- Performer Jessye Norman
- Conductor James Levine
- 4:51 – The Lamb (track , Agnus Dei: Choir of New College, Oxford/Higginbottom)
- Choir Choir of New College Oxford
- Composer John Tavener
- Conductor Edward Higginbottom
- 8:03 – Adagio and fugue in C minor, K546
- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ensemble Armida String Quartet
- 11:33 – Vocalise (track 1, Vengerov & Virtuosi)
- Composer Sergey Rachmaninov
- Performer Maxim Vengerov
- Performer Vag Papian
- Conductor Mikhail Parhamovsky
- Ensemble Virtuosi
- 17:44 – Ragtime for 11 instruments (track 9, Strauss: Waltzes/Stravinsky: Octet, Pastorale: Boston Symphony Chamber Players)
- Composer Igor Stravinsky
- Ensemble Boston Symphony Chamber Players
- 22:13 – Der Leiermann (Winterreise, D.911)
- Composer Franz Schubert
- Singer Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau
- Performer Alfred Brendel
- 25:42 – Petit pays (track 1, Cesaria)
- Singer Cesária Évora
- Composer Nando Da Cruz