Classical music for your journey
Episode m002lnpl, broadcast at Tuesday 11th November 2025, 7:00pm.
“Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, including Percy Grainger's Country Gardens in an arrangement for wind orchestra, Meredith Monks' Ellis Island for two pianos, an aria from Handel's Serse performed by cello and piano, choral music by Amy Beach, a quintet for clarinet and strings by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and a prelude for guitar by Villa-Lobos. Producer: Eleonora Claps”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Country Gardens
- Composer Percy Grainger
- Orchestra Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra
- Conductor Timothy Reynish
- 1:48 – Ellis Island
- Performer Bruce Brubaker
- Composer Meredith Monk
- Performer Ursula Oppens
- 4:49 – Canario (track 19, Tinto: Los Otros)
- Ensemble Los Otros
- Composer Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger
- 6:20 – Peace I Leave with You (track 10, All Things Are Quite Silent)
- Composer Amy Beach
- Conductor Anna Lapwood
- Ensemble Pembroke College Girls' Choir
- Ensemble Pembroke College Chapel Choir
- 7:56 – Ombra mai fu (Serse) arr. for cello & piano (track 1, Serse, HWV 40, Act I: Ombra mai fu (Arr. for Cello and Piano))
- Composer George Frideric Handel
- Performer Raphaela Gromes
- Performer Julian Riem
- 10:39 – Irmelin (Prelude)
- Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra
- Composer Frederick Delius
- Conductor John Barbirolli
- 16:21 – 5 Preludes, W419: no.5 in D major (track 12, Saudade)
- Composer Heitor Villa‐Lobos
- Performer Plínio Fernandes
- 20:12 – Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor, Op 10 (2nd mvt) (track 2, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; Chamber Music)
- Composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
- Performer Kelly Burke
- Performer Janet Orenstein
- Performer Scott Rawls
- Performer John Fadial
- Performer Brooks Whitehouse
- 25:59 – Harp Sonata (Perpetuum Mobile)
- Composer Germaine Tailleferre
- Performer Sarah Schuster Ericsson