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Switch up your listening with classical music

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites by Handel, Hough, Delibes, Wallen, Villa-Lobos, Copland and Tchaikovsky.

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites including Handel's See, the Conqu'ring Hero Comes!, The Bell Song from Delibes' opera Lakme and the main theme from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Along the way there is also Stephen Hough's waltz arrangement of Strauss' Radetzky March, Errollyn Wallen's Chorale for String Orchestra, Villa-Lobos' Choros No.1 for guitar and Saturday Night Waltz from Copland's ballet Rodeo.

Producer: Ian Wallington

30 minutes

Last on

Thu 3 Oct 2024 19:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    March (Judas Maccabeus)

    Music Arranger: Crispian Steele‐Perkins. Performer: Crispian Steele‐Perkins. Orchestra: Armonico Consort.
    • Let The Bright Seraphim Works by J.S. Bach, Telemann, A.Scarlatti and Handel.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 18.

  • Sir Stephen Hough

    Radetzky Waltz [after Johann Strauss I]

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion Records Limited.

  • LΓ©o Delibes

    OΓΉ va la jeune hindoue (LakmΓ©)

    Singer: Sabine Devieilhe. Orchestra: Les SiΓ¨cles. Conductor: FranΓ§ois‐Xavier Roth.
    • Mirages.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 103.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Chorale

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Swan. Director: David Le Page.
    • Timelapse.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1201.

  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    ChΓ΄ros No. 1

    Performer: Pedro Aguiar.
    • Pereira, Villa-Lobos, Reis & Others: Works for Guitar.
    • Naxos.
    • 901.

  • Aaron Copland

    Saturday Night Waltz (Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo)

    Performer: John Wallace. Performer: Paul Arden-Taylor. Orchestra: English Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: William Boughton.
    • Copland Orchestral Works,.
    • Nimbus.
    • 3.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Suite from Swan Lake, Op. 20a: I. Scene. Moderato

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 1-6; Ballet music, etc.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Thu 3 Oct 2024 19:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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