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Power through with classical music

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, including works by Saint-Saëns, Anna Meredith, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Ronald Binge and Amy Beach.

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, including a tarantelle for flute, clarinet and orchestra by Saint-Saëns, a piece for solo guitar by Eduardo Falú, an arrangement for string quartet of Anna Meredith's Blackfriars, a piano and cello duet by Amy Beach, a choral piece by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Mendelssohn's Scottish symphony.

Producer: Eleonora Claps

30 minutes

Last on

Fri 2 May 202519:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Tarantelle Op.6

    Performer: Susan Milan. Performer: James Campbell. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Saint-Saëns: Africa.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 8.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Summer is gone

    • Coleridge-Taylor: Partsongs.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 12.

  • Anna Meredith

    Blackfriars

    Music Arranger: Richard Jones. Performer: Anna Meredith. Ensemble: Ligeti Quartet.
    • Nuc.
    • Mercury Classics.
    • 9.

  • Eduardo Falú

    Entre las brasas

    Performer: Eduardo Falú.
    • Eduardo Falu: Resolana.
    • Nimbus.
    • 2.

  • Ronald Binge

    Cornet carillon

    Performer: Hannaford Street Silver Band. Conductor: James Curnow.
    • CBC.

  • Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger

    Libro quarto d'intavolatura di chitarrone: - Canario - Capona

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
    • Ars longa: Old and new music for theorbo.
    • Linn Records.
    • 1.

  • Amy Beach

    Dreaming

    Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Performer: Julian Riem.
    • Sony.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 56, 'Scottish' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphony no.3 & The Hebrides Overture/Schumann; Piano Concerto.
    • LSO LIVE.
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Fri 2 May 202519:00
    BBC Radio 3

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