23/10/2025
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music by your favourite composers such as Tchaikovsky, Ravel and Telemann.
Settle in for a 30-minute soundscape of classical music by your favourite composers. Tonight's classical mixtape begins with Kurtag's tender arrangement of Bach's Cantata No.106 'Actus Tragicus', reimagined for piano duet. Next, Tchaikovsky's Souvenir d'un lieu cher for violin and orchestra sweeps in. The mood shifts with sparkling dialogue between clarinet and piano that dances with charm and wit in his Sonata in E flat major. Sarah Rimkus' plunges us into the haunting choral work, My heart is like a singing bird - a piece that lingers in the air - followed by Scriabin's Nocturne No.2 for solo piano. Ravel's Prelude from Le tombeau de Couperin opens the second half of the mixtape, arranged for soprano saxophone and orchestra. We skip lightly through Schumann's fifth Papillon, a fluttering piano miniature. Finally, tonight's classical mixtape closes with a flourish - the Largo from Telemann's Concerto in E minor for flute, recorder and strings.
Producer: Zara Siddiqi
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Music Played
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonatina (Cantata no.106)
Music Arranger: György Kurtág. Performer: György Kurtág. Performer: Márta Kurtág.- ECM New Series.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Mélodie in E flat major [Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op.42]
Performer: Esther Yoo. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- Tchaikovsky.
- Universal Music Ltd..
- 8.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Clarinet Sonata in E flat major, Op 167 (2nd mvmt, Allegro animato)
Performer: Richard Stoltzman. Performer: Irma Vallecillo.- RCA.
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Sarah Rimkus
My heart is like a singing bird
Lyricist: Christina Rossetti. Choir: The Gesualdo Six. Conductor: Owain Park.- Fading.
- Hyperion.
- 16.
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Alexander Scriabin
Nocturne in A major, Op 5 No 2
Performer: Stephen Coombs.- The Early Scriabin.
- Helios.
- 10.
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Maurice Ravel
Le Tombeau de Couperin (Prélude)
Orchestra: Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sergiu Celibidache.- Münchner Philharmoniker.
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Robert Schumann
Papillons, Op 2 (No 5 in B flat major)
Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin.- Schumann: Carnaval, Fantasiestücke, Papillons: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
- Hyperion.
- 5.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto in E minor, TWV.52.e1
Orchestra: Musica Antiqua Köln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.- Concertos pour Instruments à Vent (Ensemble : Musica Antiqua Köln - Direction :.
- Archiv.
- 16.
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