Switch up your listening with classical music
Episode m002cp76, broadcast at Thursday 5th June 2025, 7:00pm.
“Take 30 minutes to immerse yourself in a rich soundscape of classical music. Tonight's mixtape opens with Ginastera’s first movement from his Suite de Danzas Criollas, infused with the energy of Argentina’s Creole musical heritage. Next, Lauridsen’s ethereal Lux Aeterna enchants with its shimmering choral textures, followed by Borodin’s heartfelt second String Quartet—a musical love letter to his wife. Florence Price then transports us to America with her evocative and lesser-known first Violin Concerto. Tchaikovsky sweeps us away with the dramatic Panorama scene from his Sleeping Beauty Suite. Tonight's mixtape concludes with the finale of Rosalind Ellicott's Piano Trio in G minor - an often times overlooked example of late-Romantic chamber elegance. Producer: Zara Siddiqi”
Track listing
- 0:41 – Suite de Danzas Criollas: Adagietto pianissimo (track , ¡Viva la Danza! Música iberoamericana para piano.)
- Composer Alberto Ginastera
- Performer Angel Huidobro Vega
- 2:34 – O nata lux (Lux aeterna) (track 11, Lux)
- Composer Morten Lauridsen
- Choir VOCES8
- 6:58 – String Quartet No 2 in D major (2nd mvt, Scherzo) (track 6, Borodin/Smetana: String Quartet No.2/String Quartet No.1 "From My Life")
- Composer Alexander Borodin
- Ensemble Takács Quartet
- 11:24 – Violin Concerto No 1 in D Major: II Andante (track , Florence Price: Violin Concertos)
- Composer Florence Price
- Performer Janáčkova filharmonie Ostrava
- Performer Er-Gene Kahng
- Performer Ryan Cockerham
- 17:25 – The Sleeping Beauty (Panorama) (track 9, Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker: LSO, Previn)
- Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Conductor André Previn
- Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra
- 21:26 – Piano Trio no.1 in G Major (3rd mvt) (track 103, English Piano Trios)
- Composer Rosalind Frances Ellicott
- Ensemble Trio Anima