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Expand your horizons with classical music
An eclectic mix, including music by Brahms, Bach and Amy Beach, haunting interludes from Arvo Part and Ivor Gurney, and an impertinent suggestion from Benjamin Britten.
Last on
Wed 23 Mar 202219:00
BBC Radio 3
Music Played
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Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No 2 in D minor
Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: John Lenehan. Music Arranger: Joseph Joachim.- EMI.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Little Prelude No 4 in D major, BWV 936
Performer: Angela Hewitt.- J.S. Bach, The French Suites: Angela Hewitt.
- Hyperion.
- 4.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Allegro Appassionato Op.43
Performer: Johannes Moser. Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fabrice Bollon. Conductor: Fabrice Bollon.- Hanssler Classic.
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Arvo Pärt
O Adonai (7 Magnificat Antiphons)
Performer: Andrew Lucas. Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.- Berliner Messe: Magnificat Antiphons etc: Polyphony: Andrew Lucas/Steven layton.
- Hyperion.
- 19.
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Franz Schubert
String Quartet in B flat major, D 18
Ensemble: Quatuor Sine Nomine.- CASCAVELLE.
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Isaac Albéniz
Cataluña (Suite española No 1), arranged for guitar
Performer: Sean Shibe.- BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists.
- BBC Radio 3.
- 1.
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Ivor Gurney
Sleep (5 Elizabethan Songs)
Music Arranger: Iain Farrington. Music Arranger: Iain Farrington. Singer: Allan Clayton. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.- Warner.
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Amy Beach
Valse Caprice Op 4
Performer: Kirsten Johnson.- Guild.
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Maurice Ravel
Rigaudon (Le tombeau de Couperin)
Ensemble: Wind Quintet of Staatskapelle Berlin.- Blaserquintett der Staatskapelle Berlin.
- Castigo.
- 14.
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- Wed 23 Mar 202219:00BBC Radio 3
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