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Classical music for focus or relaxation

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, including a lively barn dance from clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer, beautiful choral music by Renaissance Spanish composer Tomás Luis de Victoria and Caroline Shaw's Orangery for string quartet.

30 minutes

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Mon 6 Nov 202319:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Leó Weiner

    Csűrdöngölő [Barn dance] (Két Tétel)

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Christoph Koncz. Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Performer: Stephan Koncz. Performer: Ödön Rácz. Performer: Oszkár Ökrös. Performer: Predrag Tomic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Suite in G major: Les Triolets

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Serenade in D (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Odaline de la Martínez.
    • Chandos.

  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    Requiem Mass: Kyrie

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

  • Sylvius Leopold Weiss

    Courante

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • BIS.

  • Caroline Shaw

    Plan & Elevation (The Orangery)

    Ensemble: Attacca Quartet.
    • Orange.
    • Nonesuch.

  • George Frideric Handel

    As with rosy steps the morn (Theodora)

    Singer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Director: Harry Bicket.
    • Handel: Arias: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.
    • Avie.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Mon 6 Nov 202319:00
    BBC Radio 3

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