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Classical music for your journey

Tonight's Classical Mixtape ranges across the moods, from the breathless to the calmest calm, with familiar friends and some new tunes too.

Tonight's Classical Mixtape ranges across the moods, from the breathless to the calmest calm, with familiar friends and some new tunes too. From Milhaud in Brazilian Samba mode and a young Richard Strauss writing for his dad, to the most serene Mozart Serenade and a Symphony from Toscanini's NBC producer in the 1930s.

Producer: Bill Nicholls

30 minutes

Last on

Tue 21 Feb 2023 19:00

Music Played

  • Darius Milhaud

    Scaramouche Op.165b (Brazileira [Mouvement de Samba])

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Piers Lane.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir (Cantata no.130)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
  • Don Gillis

    Symphony No 5 陆 'Symphony for fun' (2nd mvt, 'Spiritual?')

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
  • Samuel Scheidt

    Galliarda battaglia 脿 5

    Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in B flat major, K 361, 'Gran Partita' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Ensemble: Bl盲serensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • Best Mozart 50.
    • EMI.
    • 2.
  • Herbert Howells

    Gavotte

    Singer: John Mark Ainsley. Performer: Julius Drake.
  • Thomas Arne

    Ode on the death of Mr Shenstone

    Choir: Opus Anglicanum.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Spring Song, Op 62 No 6

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
  • Richard Strauss

    Horn Concerto no.1 in E flat major Op.11

    Performer: Barry Tuckwell. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Istv谩n Kert茅sz.

Broadcasts

  • Wed 29 Jan 2020 19:00
  • Tue 21 Feb 2023 19:00

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