Expand your horizons with classical music
Episode m0029xhk, broadcast at Wednesday 23rd April 2025, 7:00pm.
“Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music from the sun-dappled intimacy of Boccherini's Guitar Quintet, to the delicate piano miniature of Chaminade's Serenade in D. Glazunov offers theatrical colour and youthful verve in his Scenes de ballet into Schubert's Junglingswonne. Vivaldi provides jubilant choral writing lifting us skyward, before gently returning to earth with Hasselman's tranquil La Source for harp. Finally, Dvorak's American quartet provides just the right amount of nostalgia to close today's classical mixtape. Producer: Zara Siddiqi”
Track listing
- 0:54 – Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D Major, G. 448: I. Pastorale (track 1, Boccherini, L.: Guitar Quintets Nos. 4-6)
- Composer Luigi Boccherini
- Ensemble Dimov String Quartet
- 5:55 – Serenade in D major, Op 29 (track 10, Cécile Chaminade - Piano Music)
- Composer Cécile Chaminade
- Performer Peter Jacobs
- 9:07 – Pas d'action (Scenes de ballet) (track 010, Glazunov - From the Middle Ages etc.)
- Composer Alexander Glazunov
- Conductor Neeme Järvi
- Orchestra Royal Scottish National Orchestra
- 13:47 – Die Nacht, D 983/4
- Composer Franz Schubert
- Choir Sonat Vox
- Conductor Justus Merkel
- 17:39 – Laudamus te (Gloria in D major, RV 589) (track 3, Vivaldi: Gloria, Handel: Gloria, Dixit Dominus: John Eliot Gardiner)
- Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Choir Monteverdi Choir
- Orchestra English Baroque Soloists
- Composer Antonio Vivaldi
- Singer Lucy Ballard
- Singer Katharine Gowers
- 24:17 – String Quartet No 12 in F major, Op 96, 'American' (4th mvt) (track 4, Dvorak: Streichquartette Nr. 12 and 14)
- Composer Antonín Dvořák
- Ensemble Smetana Quartet