Expand your horizons with classical music
Episode m002lcjw, broadcast at Wednesday 5th November 2025, 7:00pm.
“Tonight's Classical Mixtape opens with the tender rustle of Amy Beach's Young Birches, played by Joanne Polk. Voces8 performs Ola Gjeilo's haunting beautiful Ubi caritas. Violinist Elena Urioste plays Mel Bonis' Violin Sonata, followed by Dvorak's beloved Serenade for Strings in E major. As the night grows darker, we hear the evening song, or Abendlied, by Rheinberger followed by Stenhammar's Serenade in F major. Tonight's Classical Mixtape concludes with lutenist Hopkinson Smith playing the Prelude to JS Bach's Partita No.3 in E major. Producer: Zara Siddiqi”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Young Birches, Op 128 No 2
- Composer Amy Beach
- Performer Joanne Polk
- 2:25 – Ubi Caritas
- Performer Ola Gjeilo
- Choir VOCES8
- 6:54 – Violin Sonata in F sharp minor, Op. 112: iii. Thème populaire grec recueilli par
- Performer Elena Urioste
- Performer Tom Poster
- Composer Mel Bonis
- 12:16 – 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
- 17:07 – Abendlied (track 16, A Choral Tapestry)
- Ensemble VOCES8
- Composer Josef Rheinberger
- 19:36 – Serenade in F major, Op.31 (2nd mvt: Canzonetta) (track 1, Summer Nights)
- Conductor Andrew Davis
- Composer Wilhelm Stenhammar
- Orchestra Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- 24:32 – Prelude from Partita No.3 in E major, BWV.1006 (track 21, Hopkinson Smith, Album)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Hopkinson Smith