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Classical music for focus and inspiration

Take time out to refresh and renew your senses with 30 minutes of quietly uplifting classical music featuring Shostakovich, Debussy and folk by Rhiannon Giddens.

Produced by Calantha Bonnissent

30 minutes

Last on

Fri 25 Sep 202019:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57: I. Prelude (Lento)

    Ensemble: Trio Wanderer.
    • Shostakovich: Piano Quintet & Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 101.

  • Louis Couperin

    Sarabande and Gigue from Suite in G minor

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Leonard Elschenbroich. Performer: Alexei Grynyuk.
    • Shostakovich/Rachmaninov: Cello Sonatas: Elschenbroich/Grynyuk.
    • Onyx.
    • 2.

  • Claude Debussy

    Dr Gradus ad Parnassum (Children's Corner)

    Orchestra: Lyon Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Jun Märkl.
    • Naxos.

  • Trad.

    Wayfaring Stranger

    Performer: Rhiannon Giddens. Performer: Francesco Turrisi.

  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    Carnaval das criancas brasileiras: No. 3. A Manha da Pierrete (The Pierrette's R

    • Archipelago Of Light.
    • Delos.
    • 103.

  • Gustav Holst

    Capriccio

    Music Arranger: Imogen Holst. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Holst: Egdon Heath, Hammersmith etc.: LSO/Hickox.
    • Chandos.

Broadcast

  • Fri 25 Sep 202019:00
    BBC Radio 3

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