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The perfect classical half hour

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites, including Bizet, Verdi, a jazzy take on Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker and film music by Nino Rota and Philip Glass.

Your Classical Mixtape is full of emotion, drama and surprises, opening with the royal pomp of 17th-century Versailles. There are melodies full of passion with Bizet's 'Carmen' and Verdi's 'Luisa Miller', iconic film scores by Nino Rota for Federico Fellini's '8陆' (1963), and by Philip Glass for Paul Shrader's 'Mishima' (1985). Sitting alongside are some intimate moments with lesser-known composers such as Baldassare Galuppi and Pauline Viardot, a 'Nutcracker' reinvented by jazz genius Duke Ellington, and a baroque extravaganza from Rameau and Telemann.

Producer: Julien Rosa

30 minutes

Last on

Tue 18 Apr 2023 19:00
成人快手 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Michel鈥怰ichard de Lalande

    Air (Concert pour les f锚tes sur le canal de Versailles)

    Orchestra: Jean-Fran莽ois Paillard Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jean鈥怓ran莽ois Paillard.
    • Music at the Court of Versailles: Charpentier/Delalande/Lully/Rameau.
    • Erato.
    • 2.

  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen (Act 3 Entr'acte

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • EMI.

  • Nino Rota

    8 1 / 2 (Otto e mezzo): Suite - 6. Passerella d'addio

    Conductor: Riccardo Chailly. Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic.
    • Decca.

  • Baldassare Galuppi

    Piano Sonata No 9 in F Minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • Mozart & Contemporaries.
    • DG.
    • 1.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Quando le sere al placido (Luisa Miller)

    Singer: Vittorio Grigolo. Orchestra: Coro di Teatro Regio Parma. Conductor: Pier Giorgio Morandi.
    • Vittorio Grigolo - The Italian Tenor.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Philip Glass

    Mishima: Closing

    Ensemble: Kronos Quartet. Conductor: Michael Riesman.
    • Mishima.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 14.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Danse of the Floreadores (Waltz of the Flowers)

    Composer: Duke Ellington. Composer: Billy Strayhorn. Director: Duke Ellington.
    • Three Suites.
    • Columbia Jazz Masterpieces.
    • 8.

  • Pauline Viardot

    Sonatine in A minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: David Juritz. Performer: Diana Ambache.
    • Libert茅, Egalit茅, Sororit茅: 100 Years of Chamber Music by French Women.
    • Ambache.
    • 011.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Contredanse (Zoroastre)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans Br眉ggen.
    • Glossa.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in E minor for recorder, flute and strings (4th mvt)

    Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Jan Bengtson. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • SONY.

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  • Tue 18 Apr 2023 19:00
    成人快手 Radio 3

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