Half an hour of the finest classical music
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites, including music by Purcell, Ravel and Britten.
Today's mixtape opens with stately viols in music by Purcell. Hot on its heels is some sprightly harp by Britten and Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin. This is followed by a mournful aria from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. Yearning music by Nico Muhly leads into a soothing piano prelude by Leokadiya Kashperova, which in turn melts into a postlude for violin and string orchestra by Henning Kraggerud. The mixtape ends with the pastoral Berkshire Idyll by Henry Balfour Gardiner.
Producer: Phoebe McFarlane
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Benjamin Britten
Suite For Solo Harp: II. Toccata
- Revelation.
- Analekta.
- 9.
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Maurice Ravel
Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68a: I. Prélude
- Ravel: Piano Concertos.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Lenski's Aria (Eugene Onegin)
Singer: Nicolai Gedda. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Alceo Galliera.- EMI.
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Nico Muhly
Roads and Paths
Performer: Nico Muhly.- David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller and further away).
- Bedroom Community.
- 2.
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Elisaveta Kashperova
Prelude No 2 in D flat major (from Two Preludes after Konstantin Balmont)
Performer: Hiroaki Takenouchi.![]()
Henning Kraggerud
Postlude in B flat minor (Equinox)
Performer: Henning Kraggerud. Orchestra: Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra.- SIMAX.
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Josef Suk
Love Song (6 Pieces Op.7)
Music Arranger: Jaroslav Kocián. Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano.- Decca.
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Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Gavotte with 6 variations (Gavotte) [Nouvelles suites de pieces de clavecin, 2eme livre]
Performer: Bruce Liu.- WAVES: Music by Rameau, Ravel, Alkan.
- DG.
- 1.
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