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Radio 3,01 Jul 2026,30 mins

Music for a summer's evening

Classical Mixtape

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Choral music spanning 750 years bookends this episode of Radio 3’s Classical Mixtape – from the anonymous 13th-century round Sumer is icumen in to Eric Whitacre’s Sleep, composed in 2000. Also included are beautiful works by composers Johann Christian Bach, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Claude Debussy, Florence Price and Paul Reade, plus film music by Snorri Hallgrímsson. This edition of the Classical Mixtape was produced by Christina Kenny for BBC Audio.

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  1. Track
    Artist
  2. 1.
    Sumer is icumen in
    Sumer is icumen in
    Anon.
  3. 2.
    Folk songs from Somerset (March)
    Folk songs from Somerset (March)
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
  4. 3.
    Suite from "The Victorian Kitchen Garden" - I: Prelude, Andante pastorale
    Suite from "The Victorian Kitchen Garden" - I: Prelude, Andante pastorale
    Paul Reade