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A half hour mix of classical music, including a shimmering orchestral song from Richard Strauss, a lolloping serenade from Brahms, energetic strings from Grieg, an ethereal requiem from the Spanish Renaissance, and an iconic film score from the late, great Burt Bacharach.

Producer: Helen Garrison

30 minutes

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Thu 16 Feb 202319:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Giovanni Battista Martini

    Toccata

    Music Arranger: Marie‐Claire Alain. Performer: Håkan Hardenberger. Performer: Simon Preston.
    • DG.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade no.2 in A major Op.16 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Haitink.
    • Philips.

  • Richard Strauss

    Wiegenlied, Op 41 No 1

    Singer: Christine Schäfer. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart: Arias & R. Strauss: Orchestral Songs - Schafer, Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite: Praeludium

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Grieg: Holberg Suite/Tchaikovsky: String Serenade: Orheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    Requiem Mass: Kyrie

    Ensemble: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Signum Records.

  • Ernest Chausson

    Concerto in D Major, Op.21 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Alexander Melnikov. Ensemble: Salagon Quartett.
    • Cesar Franck: Sonata for Piano and Violin - Ernest Chausson: Concert.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 6.

  • Burt Bacharach

    South American Getaway (from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)

    Ensemble: The Ron Hicklin Singers.
    • All Time Greats.
    • UMC (Universal Music Catalogue).
    • 14.

Broadcast

  • Thu 16 Feb 202319:00
    BBC Radio 3

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