Thirty minutes of reflective music
Episode m002ldt0, broadcast at Thursday 6th November 2025, 7:00pm.
“A reflective mix of classical music for half an hour, featuring Kerensa Briggs’ meditation on redemption and Vaughan Williams’ depiction of the music Katherine of Aragon used to heal her grief, plus the Austrian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja plays perhaps one of Chopin’s best known nocturnes.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Nocturne No. 8 in D-Flat Major, Op. 27 No. 2 (track 8, Chopin: Nocturnes [Complete])
- Composer Frédéric Chopin
- Performer Elisabeth Leonskaja
- 5:51 – Legends Op.59 (no.6 in C sharp minor)
- Composer Antonín Dvořák
- Orchestra Budapest Festival Orchestra
- Conductor Iván Fischer
- 10:44 – Media vita (track 13, Nightfall)
- Ensemble VOCES8
- Composer Kerensa Briggs
- 14:07 – Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C Minor, BWV 1060: II - Adagio
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Amandine Beyer
- Performer Emmanuel Laporte
- 18:41 – Li cinque libri della chitarra alla spagnola: Tasteggiata (track 2, Libro primo)
- Performer Rolf Lislevand
- Composer Giovanni Paolo Foscarini
- 21:59 – Orpheus with his lute
- Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Performer Graham Johnson
- Singer Anthony Rolfe Johnson
- 24:33 – Opacity: III - Elegia
- Ensemble Siggi String Quartet
- Composer Una Sveinbjarnardóttir
- 27:39 – Swanee River (track 120, Still: Songs & Piano Music)
- Composer William Grant Still
- Performer Hartmut Höll