The perfect classical half hour
Episode m002f7h6, broadcast at Wednesday 9th July 2025, 7:00pm.
“An engaging mix of classical music for half an hour, featuring Dvorak’s serene serenade for strings, as well as the string quartet that won the Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz both the Polish National Prize and first prize at the International Composers’ Competition in Liège, plus the Dunedin consort plays tribute to the Glory of God in Bach’s mass in B minor”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op. 22: I. Moderato (track 5, Tchaikovsky: Serenade For Strings / Dvorák: Serenade For Strings)
- Composer Antonín Dvořák
- Orchestra Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Colin Davis
- 4:49 – A Chloris
- Performer Susan Manoff
- Composer Reynaldo Hahn
- Singer Véronique Gens
- 7:41 – Hungarian Dance No. 7, WoO 1 (track 6, Brahms: The Hungarian Connection)
- Composer Johannes Brahms
- Performer Leonidas Kavakos
- Performer Oszkár Ökrös
- Performer Antoine Tamestit
- Performer Christoph Koncz
- Performer Andreas Ottensamer
- Music Arranger Stephan Koncz
- Performer Ödön Rácz
- Composer Ede Reményi
- 9:58 – Saturday Night Waltz (Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo) (track 4, Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, Fanfare)
- Composer Aaron Copland
- Conductor Louis Lane
- Orchestra Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
- 14:02 – String Quartet no.4 (3rd mvt) (track 3, Naxos 8.572807)
- Composer Grażyna Bacewicz
- Ensemble Lutosławski Quartet
- 19:44 – Waltz No. 2 from Suite no. 2 for jazz band
- Performer Alban Gerhardt
- Composer Dmitry Shostakovich
- Ensemble Alliage Quintett
- 23:13 – Gloria (Mass in B minor) (track 4, J. S. Bach, Mass in B minor: Dunedin Consort and Players)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Ensemble Dunedin Consort
- Director John Butt