The eclectic classical mix
Episode m002cp7w, broadcast at Friday 6th June 2025, 7:00pm.
“Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music - from the melancholic depths of Loch Katrine's Lady brought to life by former BBC New Generation Artist accordionist Ryan Corbett to Joseph White's romantic adagio from his Concerto for Violin. Frida Swain mesmerises us in her clever piano sonata with rhythmic gestures redolent of Bax and Ireland. Reynaldo Hahn reminds us of his power to capture a 20th century audience in his quintet which he once remarked 'would be the one work of his oeuvre he would choose if only one could be kept'. Ronald Binge takes us on an Elizabethan serenade, and Evelyn Glennie holds us in a mesmerizing “little prayer” for percussion before tonight’s mixtape concludes with the first of Scriabin’s Preludes for piano in C major. Producer: Zara Siddiqi”
Track listing
- 0:58 – Loch Katrine's Lady
- Composer Phil Cunningham
- Performer Ryan Corbett
- 4:10 – Violin Concerto in F sharp minor (2nd mvt)
- Performer Rachel Barton Pine
- Composer Joseph White
- Orchestra Encore Chamber Orchestra
- Conductor Daniel Hege
- 9:02 – Piano Sonata no.2 in F sharp minor (Pandean Rondo) (track 504, Swain: Piano Works, Vol. 1)
- Composer Freda Swain
- Performer Timon Altwegg
- 12:47 – Piano Quintet in F sharp minor (3rd mvt) (track 105, Hahn: Piano Quintet, Songs, Piano Quartet)
- Composer Reynaldo Hahn
- Ensemble Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
- 19:54 – Elizabethan Serenade (track 15, Elizabethan Serenade)
- Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Composer Ronald Binge
- Conductor Ernest Tomlinson
- 23:24 – A Little Prayer (track 10, Rhythm Song)
- Performer Evelyn Glennie
- 28:01 – 24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 1 in C Major (track 101, Scriabin: 24 Preludes - Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 18)
- Composer Alexander Scriabin
- 28:17 – The Marriage of Figaro (Overture)
- Orchestra BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Conductor Jonathan Bloxham