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Grace Dent

Restaurant critic, writer and presenter of Radio 4's The Untold, Grace Dent, finds everything from sun-drenched Spanish squares to Nordic noir in Clemmie's classical playlist.

Restaurant critic, writer and presenter of Radio 4's The Untold, Grace Dent, finds everything from sun-drenched Spanish squares to Nordic noir in Clemmie's classical playlist. Recorded backstage at Hay Festival.

Grace's playlist in full

Caroline Shaw - Partita for 8 Singers (Sarabande)
Francisco Tarrega - Capricho arabe
JS Bach - Goldberg Variations (variation 30 and aria)
Ola Gjeilo - Northern Lights
Nikolai Kapustin - 24 Preludes & Fugues (no.3 in F)
Trad arr Coleridge-Taylor - Deep River

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Mon 6 Jan 202000:00
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Music Played

  • Caroline Shaw

    Partita (Sarabande)

    Ensemble: Roomful of Teeth.
    • New Amsterdam.

  • Francisco Tárrega

    Capricho arabe - serenata for guitar

    Performer: Pablo Garibay.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations: Variation 30 (Quodlibet); Aria da capo

    Performer: Igor Levit.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    Northern Lights

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Decca.

  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 82: no.3 in F major; Fugue

    Performer: Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Deep River

    Performer: Kanneh-Mason Trio.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 17 Jun 201900:00
    BBC Radio 3
  • Mon 6 Jan 202000:00
    BBC Radio 3

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