Your daily classical soundtrack
Episode m002kdn7, broadcast at Monday 13th October 2025, 7:00pm.
“Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music from your favourite composers. Schoenberg begins tonight's mixtape with a gentle Notturno for violin, strings and harp, followed by Schubert's sublime Kyrie from his Mass No.5 in A flat Major. Tatiana Nikolayeva makes the piano glitter in Shostakovich's Prelude and fugue in A minor before Bruch's Concerto in A flat minor for 2 pianos and orchestra. Binge serenades us with his Elizabethan serenade for orchestra, before Bruckner's glorious gradual - Virga Jesse floruit. Finally, we end with Lili Boulanger and Telemann, both writing for wind and strings. Producer: Zara Siddiqi”
Track listing
- 0:03 – Notturno, for violin, harp and string orchestra
- Performer Daniel Hope
- Orchestra Zürcher Kammerorchester
- Composer Arnold Schoenberg
- Performer Jane Berthe
- 3:05 – Kyrie (Mass No 5 in A flat major, D 678) (track 001, Berliner Philharmoniker Franz Schubert)
- Composer Franz Schubert
- Orchestra Berliner Philharmoniker
- Choir Berlin Radio Choir
- Conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
- Singer Christian Gerhaher
- Singer Birgit Remmert
- Singer Ľuba Orgonášová
- Singer Kurt Streit
- 10:10 – Prelude and Fugue in A flat major, Op 87 No 17 (Prelude) (track 13, Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87: Tatiana Nicolayeva)
- Composer Dmitry Shostakovich
- Performer Tatiana Nikolayeva
- 11:53 – Concerto for 2 Pianos Op.88a (3rd mvt) (track 7, Concertos for Piano Duo)
- Composer Max Bruch
- Ensemble Piano Duo Genova & Dimitrov
- Orchestra Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Yordan Kamdzhalov
- 17:02 – Elizabethan Serenade
- Composer Ronald Binge
- Conductor Ronald Corp
- Orchestra The New London Orchestra
- 20:20 – Virga Jesse Floruit
- Conductor Nigel Short
- Composer Anton Bruckner
- Choir Tenebrae
- 24:11 – Nocturne (track 1, The Boulanger Legacy)
- Composer Lili Boulanger
- Performer Merel Vercammen
- Performer Dina Ivanova
- 27:26 – Sinfonia in F major TWV.50:3 (track 16, Telemann: Recorder Concertos: Peter Holtslag, The Parley of Instruments)
- Composer Georg Philipp Telemann
- Conductor Roy Goodman
- Performer Peter Holtslag
- Performer Mark Caudle
- Ensemble The Parley of Instruments