Your daily classical soundtrack
Episode m002bh80, broadcast at Monday 5th May 2025, 7:00pm.
“Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, from Brahms' emotive Intermezzo in B flat major, to Phyllis Tate's playful concerto for alto saxophone and string orchestra. Allow Bach to bring you back down to earth with his lively sixth Brandenburg concerto, ending today's mixtape with the finale to Tchaikovsky's Polish Symphony. Producer: Zara Siddiqi”
Track listing
- 0:56 – Laudate pueri, Dominum, BuxWV 69
- Singer Emma Kirkby
- Ensemble Fretwork
- Singer Elin Manahan Thomas
- Composer Dieterich Buxtehude
- Ensemble The Purcell Quartet
- 4:43 – Eight Pieces for Piano, Op 76 (Nos 2-5)
- Composer Johannes Brahms
- Performer Richard Goode
- 6:47 – Harp Concerto in B flat major Op.4`6
- Composer George Frideric Handel
- Orchestra Les Violons du Roy
- Conductor Bernard Labadie
- Performer Valérie Milot
- 9:19 – Alto Saxophone Concerto in B-Flat Major: II. Canzonetta (track 502, Lost Saxophone Concertos)
- Composer Phyllis Tate
- Performer Olli-Pekka Tuomisalo
- Orchestra Olli-Pekka Tuomisalo Orchestra
- 14:16 – Brandenburg concerto no.2 in F major BWV.1047 (track 4, J.S. Bach: Orchestral Music: Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Orchestra Berlin Academy for Early Music
- 19:54 – Oboe Sonata in D major, Op 166 (1st mvt)
- Ensemble Nash Ensemble
- Composer Camille Saint‐Saëns
- 23:17 – Symphony no.3 in D Major Op 29 "Polish" (4th mvt) (track 108, Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3)
- Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor Vladimir Jurowski