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Thirty minutes of classical inspiration

In Tune's daily mixtape, including John Adams's exhilarating Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Barbara Strozzi's motet The Fading Lovers and the waltz from Gounod's opera Faust.

In Tune's daily mixtape, including John Adams's exhilarating fanfare for orchestra Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Barbara Strozzi's motet The Fading Lovers and the waltz from Gounod's opera Faust. Along the way there's also music by Handel, Mozart, Grieg, Grainger and Duke Ellington.

Producer: Ian Wallington

30 minutes

Music Played

  • John Adams

    Short Ride in a Fast Machine

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Oundjian.
    • Chandos.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Minuet and Trio, HWV 348 arr for wind trio

    Performer: Anthony Averay. Performer: Lorne G Buick. Performer: Hamish Gordon. Music Arranger: Anthony Averay. Ensemble: Vancouver Wind Trio.
    • Celebrated Classics: The Vancouver Wind Trio.
    • Sonrise Audio.
    • 4.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Gli amanti falliti

    Ensemble: Orlando di Lasso Ensemble.
    • Thorofon.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No 9 in D major, K 311 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Gavotte - Musette (Holberg Suite, Op.40)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Grieg: Holberg Suite/Tchaikovsky: String Serenade: Orheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Percy Grainger

    Handel in the Strand

    Performer: Penelope Thwaites. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Duke Ellington

    It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

    Performer: Django Reinhardt. Performer: StΓ©phane Grappelli. Ensemble: Stephane Grapelli Hot Four.
    • I Got Rhythm!.
    • Past Perfect.
    • 11.
  • Charles Gounod

    Faust (Act 2 Waltz)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.

Broadcast

  • Mon 22 Mar 2021 19:00

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