In this pretentious and overly verbose classical music show, your host will meander, adagio style, upon a diverse variety (dead white men) of the infamous classical canon. I will linger (fermata style) on the facts and figures that will either send you into an instrumentally-induced sleep or fire up the musicologist buried within you, tingling your prefrontal cortex with scrupulous harmonic, structural and contextual analysis. In this highly sophisticated show, my knowledge and insight as an undergrad music student will be put to the test, as will my ability to engage listeners who are more atuned to the likes of Radiohead and Paramore with the likes of Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev. Can I bring you rondo to your senses?
| Track | Artist | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Finzi: Intimations of Immortality Op. 29 (Wordsworth): There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream | Philip Langridge/Liverpool Philharmonic Choir/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Richard Hickox | 14:04 |
| Haydn: Piano Trio in G, Hob.XV:25 - III. Rondo all'ongarese. Presto | Beaux Arts Trio | 14:15 |
| Haydn: String Quartet in G minor, Op 74 No 3, "Rider" - IV. Allegro con brio | Takács Quartet | 14:18 |
| Handel: Water Music, Suite No.2 in D Major, HWV 349 - II. Alla Hornpipe | Academy of Ancient Music, Sir Neville Mariner | 14:26 |
| Handel: Flammende Rose, Zierde der Erden, HWV 210 | Carolyn Sampson, The King's Consort | 14:30 |
| Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D | BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis | 14:37 |
| Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Waltz of the Flowers | Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle | 14:44 |
| Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 23 in F minor, Op 57 "Appassionata" - III. Allegro ma non troppo - Presto | Igor Levit | 14:53 |