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The perfect classical half hour

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites mixed with jazz, folk and music from around the world.

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites mixed with jazz, folk and music from around the world. This edition of the mixtape begins with Florence Price's Colonial Dance and the movement 'The Fog is Lifting' from Carl Nielsen's incidental music The Mother. The mixtape slows the pace with Olga Scheps' piano performance of the Family Theme from Hans Zimmer's score for 'Blue Planet'. Julian Arcas's Bolero in A Minor leads into Home, a piece composed by Ramin Djawadi for the seventh series of Game of Thrones.

The Romance movement from Shostakovitch's score for the film The Gadfly then leads into Sheku Kanneh-Mason's performance of the Northumbrian folk song Blow The Wind Southerly, followed by the Andante movement from Dvorak's "American" Suite in A Major. The mixtape draws to a conclusion with the Epilogue movement of Vaughan-Williams' String Quartet no. 2 in A Minor and Aunt Marge's Waltz taken from the John Williams score for 'Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban'.

Producer: James Rushworth

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 9 Jan 2023 19:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Florence Price

    Colonial Dance

    Orchestra: Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • Price: Songs of the Oak.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.

  • Carl Nielsen

    The fog is lifting (The Mother, Op 41)

    Performer: James Galway. Performer: Sioned Williams.

  • Hans Zimmer

    Family Theme (from "Blue Planet")

    Composer: Jacob Shea. Composer: David Fleming. Composer: Billie Ray Fingers. Composer: Bruce Fingers. Performer: Olga Scheps.
    • Family.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 19.

  • Julián Arcas

    Bolero in A Minor

    Performer: Carles Trepat.
    • Llobet / Tàrrega / Arcas / Aguado / Antonio José: Spanish Music for Guitar.
    • La Ma de Guido.
    • 11.

  • Ramin Djawadi

    Home

    Performer: Ramin Djawadi.
    • Game Of Thrones: Season 7 (Music from the HBO Series).
    • WaterTower Music.
    • 12.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Romance (The Gadfly Suite, Op 97a)

    Performer: Alexander Kerr. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Shostakovich: The Film Album: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 25.

  • Trad.

    Blow the Wind Southerly

    Music Arranger: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Decca.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    String Quartet No 2 (Epilogue: Greetings from Joan to Jean)

    Ensemble: Maggini Quartet.
    • NAXOS.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Suite in A major, Op 98b, mvt. 4: Andante

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.

  • John Williams

    Aunt Marge's Waltz (from "Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban")

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Evan Jolly.
    • The Essential Harry Potter Film Music Collection.
    • Silva Screen Records.
    • 13.

Broadcast

  • Mon 9 Jan 2023 19:00
    BBC Radio 3

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