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Half an hour of the finest classical music

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites by Haydn, Saint-SaΓ«ns and Puccini plus music by Wagner, Bernstein, Margaret Bond and Peter Hope.

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites - Haydn's Surprise Symphony, Saint-SaΓ«ns's The Swan and the Humming Chorus from Puccini's opera Madam Butterfly. Along the way there's the Spinning Chorus from Wagner's The Flying Dutchman arranged for piano by Franz Liszt, Margaret Bonds' Benediction reflecting on the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Peter Hope's Tallis Revisited.

Producer: Ian Wallington

Release date:

29 minutes

On radio

Monday 19:00

Broadcast

  • Monday 19:00

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