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Switch up your listening with classical music

Wind down to half and hour of back to back classical music by composers such as Debussy, Eric Coates, Piazzolla, Frank Bridge, Grieg and Palestrina.

Producer: Helen Garrison

30 minutes

Last on

Thu 9 Nov 2023 19:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Eric Coates

    Covent Garden (London (London every day) suite)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Claude Debussy

    Pour invoquer Pan, dieu du vent d'été (Épigraphes antiques orch Ansermet)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon. Conductor: Jun Märkl.
    • Debussy.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5; Markl.
    • Naxos.
    • 8.

  • Edvard Grieg

    6 Songs (Op.48), no.4; Die Verschwiegene Nachtigall

    Singer: Chen Reiss. Performer: Charles Spencer.
    • Le Rossignol et la Rose.
    • ONYX.
    • 4.

  • Arnold Bax

    Spring Fire Symphony (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.

  • Ignaz Friedman

    Tabatière à musique, Op 33 No 3

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hough: 'My Favourite Things' - Virtuoso Encores and Transcriptions.
    • Nimbus Records.
    • 13.

  • Alexander Agricola

    Fors seulement, a 4

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Oblivion

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Carel Kraayenhof. Performer: Pablo Rieppi. Performer: Vanessa Perez. Singer: David Finck.
    • Sony.

  • Frank Bridge

    Canzonetta

    Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia.
    • Bridge: Suite for Strings etc: Britten Sinfonia/Nicholas Cleobury.
    • Conifer.
    • 14.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Kyrie, from Missa Papae Marcelli

    Ensemble: New York Polyphony.
    • Roma Æterna.
    • BIS.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Thu 9 Nov 2023 19:00
    BBC Radio 3

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