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Switch up your listening with classical music

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music by Halvorsen, Bach, York Bowen, Vivian Fung, Nigel Hess, Copland and Tchaikovsky.

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music including Bach's cantata "Come you sweet hour", York Bowen's bravura Concert Study in G flat for piano, a Chinese influenced miniature for clarinet and strings by Vivian Fung, Nigel Hess' theme for the film Ladies in Lavender and Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring. Enveloped by a march by Johan Halvorsen and a waltz by Tchaikovsky.

Producer: Ian Wallington

30 minutes

Last on

Thu 25 May 2023 19:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Johan Halvorsen

    Entry March of the Boyars

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • DG.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wenn es meines Gottes Wille (Cantata No 161)

    Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • J.S.Bach: Christus, der is mein Leben: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • York Bowen

    Concert study no.1 in Gb major

    Performer: Nicolas Namoradze.
    • Hyperion.

  • Vivian Fung

    Minatures for clarinet & string quartet: IV. A piacere

    Performer: John Bruce Yeh. Ensemble: Maia Quartet.
    • CEDILLE RECORDS.

  • Nigel Hess

    Ladies in Lavender

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • The Silver Violin: Nicola Benedetti.
    • Decca.
    • 8.

  • Aaron Copland

    Appalachian Spring Suite (No 5)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal DorΓ΅ti.
    • Aaron Copland: The World of Aaron Copland.
    • Decca.
    • 8.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Waltz, Suite no.2 op.53

    Orchestra: USSR Academic Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.
    • OLYMPIA.

Broadcast

  • Thu 25 May 2023 19:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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