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The perfect classical half hour

A joyous mix of classical music for half an hour. Wind down at the end of a busy day with the overture from Richard Rodgers' Oklahoma! alongside music by Schubert, Britten, choral music by Rachmaninov, and exquisite solo vocal works by Mozart and Puccini.

30 minutes

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Tue 16 Apr 202419:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Richard Rodgers

    Oklahoma! (Overture)

    Orchestra: Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Conductor: John Mauceri.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben (Zaïde)

    Singer: Christine Schäfer. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart: Arias & R. Strauss: Orchestral Songs - Schafer, Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in B flat major D.960 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Schubert Piano Sonatas D 959 and 960/ Paul Lewis.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 7.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vespers, Op. 37 (Praise The Lord, O My Soul)

    Choir: St Thomas Church Choir New York. Conductor: John Scott.
    • Resonus Classics.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Moonlight (4 Sea interludes [from 'Peter Grimes'] Op.33a)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Steuart Bedford.
    • Britten - London Symphony Orchestra, Steuart Bedford.
    • Collins Classics.
    • 14.

  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    The Nightwatchman (Allamanda)

    Performer: Catherine Mackintosh. Performer: Catherine Weiss. Performer: Katherine McGillivray. Performer: Richard Boothby. Performer: Rachel Byrt. Performer: Robert Woolley. Ensemble: Purcell Quartet. Singer: Peter Harvey.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (La rondine)

    Performer: Ian Watson. Singer: Renée Fleming. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.
    • DECCA.

Broadcasts

  • Fri 26 Feb 202119:00
    BBC Radio 3
  • Tue 16 Apr 202419:00
    BBC Radio 3

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