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Classical music for focus or relaxation

Whether you're more opera or operetta, Bach or Beethoven, fast-paced galop or relaxed promenade, animated films or cinema classics, there is something for everyone in the mixtape!

From "Romeo and Juliet" to "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg", it seems that impossible love opens and closes tonight's mixtape... But not to worry, lots of light-hearted joy also awaits in our tunes!

Let's dance a galop with Franz Schubert, join a musical cortege with Lili Boulanger, and take a promenade with George Gershwin (walking the dog!), and, in our way, meet a fantastic fox - thank you Mr. Desplat -, hear the sound of a rose through the piano of Dora Pejačević, and march with ballerina dolls automated by Léo Delibes.

With this, some Beethoven for eight please, a bit of fun with Bach just for badinage, and the song of an operetta bouncer, courtesy of Sullivan (pre-Gilbert).

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Producer: Julien Rosa

30 minutes

Last on

Wed 9 Nov 2022 19:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Charles Gounod

    Roméo et Juliette - Ah, je veux vivre

    Lyricist: Jules Barbier. Lyricist: Michel Carré. Conductor: Riccardo Frizza. Orchestra: RAI National Symphony Orchestra.
    • Made for Opera.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 15.

  • Alexandre Desplat

    Mr Fox in the Fields

    Conductor: Alexandre Desplat.
    • Fantastic Mr. Fox (Original Soundtrack).
    • Abaco Records.
    • 3.

  • Léo Delibes

    Coppelia, Act II: Musique des automates

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Mark Ermler.
    • Delibes: Coppelia (Highlights).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 08.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Badinérie (Orchestral Suite no.2, BWV.1067)

    Music Arranger: Ward Swingle. Choir: The Swingle Singers.
    • Anyone for Mozart, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi? The Swingle Singers.
    • Philips.
    • 06.

  • Franz Schubert

    Polka and Galopp D 735

    Orchestrator: Bruno Maderna. Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Claudio Abbado: Marce e danze.
    • DG.
    • 5-6.

  • George Gershwin

    Walking the Dog (Shall we Dance)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Performer: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Gershwin: The 1920s & 1930s: Tilson Thomas.
    • CBS Masterworks.
    • 8.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Wind Octet in E flat major, Op 103 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Gerard Reuter. Performer: Marc Schachman. Performer: Charles Neidich. Performer: Ayako Oshima. Performer: Dennis Godburn. Performer: Michael O'Donovan. Performer: William Purvis. Performer: Stewart Rose. Ensemble: Mozzafiato. Conductor: Charles Neidich.
    • Beethoven: Chamber music for wind instruments: Mozzafiato/Neidich.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

  • Lili Boulanger

    Nocturne

    Performer: Merel Vercammen. Performer: Dina Ivanova.
    • The Boulanger Legacy.
    • Trptk.
    • 02.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Yes, yes, in those merry days (Bouncer's Song), from Cox and Box

    Singer: Donald Maxwell. Choir: Royal Welsh College Chamber Choir of Music and Drama. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Sullivan: Cox and Box/ Trial by Jury.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 03.

  • Dora Pejačević

    Rose (Blumenleben Op.19)

    Performer: Hiroko Ishimoto.
    • Pioneers: Piano Works by Female Composers.
    • Grand Piano.
    • 101.

  • Michel Legrand

    Les parapluies de Cherbourg

    Orchestra: The Flemish Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Michel Legrand.
    • The Essential Michel Legrand Film Music Collection.
    • SILVA SCREEN.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Wed 9 Nov 2022 19:00
    BBC Radio 3

Music to help you focus

Music to help you focus

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