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Switch up your listening with classical music

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites by Loewe, Rossini, Scarlatti, Faure, Tchaikovsky, Alberga, and Mozart.

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of music including a buoyant string sonata by Rossini, Faure's moving Pavane and Tchaikovsky's Tin Soldiers on the March in The Nutcracker ballet. Also in the mix is Scarlatti's Cat's Fugue - co-composed with his pet Pulcinella - (apparently), Eleanor Alberga鈥檚 Celebration Dance from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, sprightly oboe music by Mozart and Dame Julie Andrews extolling the virtues of The Lusty Month of May.

Producer: Ian Wallington

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 27 May 2024 19:00

Music Played

  • Frederick Loewe

    The Lusty Month of May (Camelot)

    Composer: Alan Jay Lerner. Performer: Julie Andrews.
    • Camelot: Original Cast Recording.
    • Columbia.
    • 5.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    String Sonata No. 1 in G Major: I. Moderato

    Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Gioachino Rossini: Complete Sonate a quattro.
    • Praga Digitals.
    • 1.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in G minor Kk.30 'Cat's fugue'

    Performer: Scott Ross.
    • Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Works: Scott Ross.
    • Erato.
    • 11.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Pavane, Op 50

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Bizet, Faure, Ibert, Ravel: City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 5.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker Suite (March)

    Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Tchaikovsky: Ballet Suites, Wiener Philharmoniker.
    • Decca.
    • 8.
  • Eleanor Alberga

    Celebration Dance (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

    Orchestra: The Taliesin Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Ash.
    • ORCHID CLASSICS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Oboe Quartet in F major K.370 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Neil Black. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Quintet/Horn Quintet/Oboe Quartet: Academy of St. Martin in the.
    • Philips.
    • 10.

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  • Mon 27 May 2024 19:00

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