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Half an hour of the finest classical music

Enjoy this 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites ranging from Rossini's Barber of Seville, a shimmering piano piece by Cecile Chaminade and finishing with a showpiece for violin, Wieniawski's Legende.

Produced by Zerlina Vulliamy.

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 3 Jun 202419:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Largo al factotum (The Barber of Seville)

    Singer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Ion Marin.
    • Philips.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Intermezzo (Manon Lescaut)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Chandos.

  • Henry Purcell

    Fantazia No 7 in C minor

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Henry Purcell The Complete Fantazias Fretwork.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 7.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Autumn (6 Études de concert- book 1 Op.35)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's French Album.
    • hyperion.
    • 013.

  • Henryk Wieniawski

    Légende Op. 17

    Performer: Arthur Grumiaux. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Edo de Waart.
    • PHILIPS.

Broadcast

  • Mon 3 Jun 202419:00
    BBC Radio 3

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