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Classical music to inspire you
Tonight, Tchaikovsky offers you a Waltz of the Flowers, Rameau portrays a braggart boaster (although he seems quite polite compared with modern-day standards), Neapolitans and Bach dance, and we visit Notre-Dame in Paris before Telemann bring us summer brightness and warmth.
Last on
Thu 12 Aug 202119:00
BBC Radio 3
Music Played
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Waltz of the Flowers (The Nutcracker - Suite)
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.- Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet, Nutcracker Suite; Maazel, the Cleveland Orchestra.
- Telarc.
- 9.
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Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Fanfarinette (Suite La Triomphante)
Music Arranger: Raaf Hekkema. Ensemble: Calefax Reed Quintet.- MDG.
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Antonio Valente
Gagliarda napoletana for keyboard [Intavolatura de cimbalo...libro 1o,1576]
Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.- ALIA VOX.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue No 15 in G major BWV 860
Performer: Olli Mustonen.- Ondine.
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Franz Schmidt
Notre Dame (Intermezzo)
Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.- DG.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Quartet in G major for violin, recorder, oboe and continuo, TWV 43:G6
Ensemble: Musica Alta Ripa.- MDG.
Broadcast
- Thu 12 Aug 202119:00BBC Radio 3

