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Beat Blue Monday with Sheku’s soothing classical mix

Relax with an uplifting classical soundscape curated by star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, including music by Shostakovich, Bach, Elgar, Schumann, and Marian Anderson.

Relax with an uplifting classical soundscape curated by star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, including music by Shostakovich, Bach, Elgar, Schumann, and Marian Anderson. Music includes Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11, Villa-Lobos's Song of the Black Swan, Bach's Largo from Sonata for organ No. 5 BWV 529 in a piano arrangement, Elgar's Sospiri, Schumann's String Quartet No. 3, Marian Anderson singing the spiritual Deep River, and Violeta Parra's Gracias a la Vida (Here's to Life) in an arrangement for guitar.
Producer: Juan Carlos Jaramillo

30 minutes

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Mon 16 Jan 202319:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Trad.

    Deep River

    Music Arranger: Harry Burleigh. Singer: Marian Anderson. Performer: Franz Rupp.

  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    Song of the Black Swan

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Thomas Adès.
    • Steven Isserlis: The Complete RCA Recordings.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 10.

  • Seven Eyes

    Summer Afternoon

    • Senses.
    • Seven Eyes.

  • Edward Elgar

    Sospiri (Op.70) vers. for str, harp & org

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mirga Gražinytė‐Tyla.
    • DG.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No. 11 in G Minor, Op. 103 "The Year 1905": III. In Memoriam

    Conductor: Mariss Jansons. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra.
    • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 "The Year 1905", Jazz Suites & Tahiti Trot.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Seven Eyes

    Jupiter

    • The Seed.
    • Seven Eyes.

  • Violeta Parra

    Gracias A La Vida

    Performer: Plínio Fernandes. Music Arranger: Emmanuel Sowicz.
    • Saudade.
    • Decca.

  • Robert Schumann

    String Quartet No. 3 in A Major, Op. 41 No. 3: III. Adagio molto

    • Schumann: String Quartet, Op. 41 No. 3 - Mozart: String Quartet No. 3, K. 156.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Largo from Trio Sonata No 5, BWV 529 (transc. Samuil Feinberg)

    Performer: Martin Roscoe.
    • Bach Piano Transcriptions 4.
    • Hyperion.
    • 003.

Broadcast

  • Mon 16 Jan 202319:00
    BBC Radio 3

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