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Classical music for your journey

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites.

An engaging mix of classical music for half an hour, featuring Vikingur Olafsson’s transcription of the chorus from Bach’s Cantata No. 21 - Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis – as well as piano music by Brahms, plus Hugi Gudmundsson sets the poetry of Snorri Hjartarson, and Amja Lechner plays Carl Friedrich Abel’s melancholic Arpeggio

29 minutes

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Fri 25 Oct 202419:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Violin concerto in D major Op. Post. no.2 - 2nd movement, Allegro

    Performer: Zhou Qian. Orchestra: Toronto Camerata. Conductor: Kevin Mallon.
    • Saint-George: Complete Violin Concertos, Vol.2.
    • NAXOS.
    • 2.

  • Carl Friedrich Abel

    Arpeggio in D minor

    Performer: Anja Lechner.
    • ECM.

  • Johannes Brahms

    4 Ballades Op.10 (no.1 in D minor 'Edward')

    Performer: Alexandre Kantorow.
    • Brahms: Piano Works.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet D. 810 Death and the Maiden; 3rd mvt.

    Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.
    • Death and the Maiden.
    • Sancho Panza Records.
    • 4.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Il barbiere di Siviglia: Largo al factotum (Arr. for Cello & Orchestra)

    Performer: Jan Vogler. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Omer Meir Wellber.
    • Pop Songs.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 7.

  • Hugi Guðmundsson

    Hvíld [Rest] for chorus

    Lyricist: Snorri Hjartarson. Choir: Graduale Nobili. Conductor: Þorvaldur Örn Davíðsson.
    • Vökuró.
    • Universal Music Classics.
    • 9.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata no. 21 BWV.21 (Ich hatte viel Bekummernis) - Chorus

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson. Music Arranger: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

Broadcast

  • Fri 25 Oct 202419:00
    BBC Radio 3

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