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Classical music for focus and inspiration

In this mixtape, Chopin invites us to join him in a melancholic waltz, Mozart expresses his love of the clarinet and Ivan Moody offers a beautifully reflective lamentation.

Producer: Dominic Wells

30 minutes

Last on

Wed 9 Feb 202219:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in B minor Op.69`2

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • ERATO.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 73 (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Günter Wand. Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra.

  • William Byrd

    In resurrectione tua

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A major, K 581 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Martin Frost. Ensemble: Vertavo Quartet.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Concerto & Clarinet Quintet.
    • BIS.
    • 4.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in B major, Op 72 No 1

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Doráti.

  • Ivan Moody

    Lamentation of the Virgin (excerpt)

    Ensemble: Singer Pur.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 87 in A major (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans Brüggen.

Broadcasts

  • Tue 14 May 201919:00
    BBC Radio 3
  • Wed 9 Feb 202219:00
    BBC Radio 3

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