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Expand your horizons with classical music

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music by Bach, Gjeilo and Dvorak.

Tonight's Classical Mixtape opens with the tender rustle of Amy Beach's Young Birches, played by Joanne Polk. Voces8 performs Ola Gjeilo's haunting beautiful Ubi caritas. Violinist Elena Urioste plays Mel Bonis' Violin Sonata, followed by Dvorak's beloved Serenade for Strings in E major. As the night grows darker, we hear the evening song, or Abendlied, by Rheinberger followed by Stenhammar's Serenade in F major. Tonight's Classical Mixtape concludes with lutenist Hopkinson Smith playing the Prelude to JS Bach's Partita No.3 in E major.

Producer: Zara Siddiqi

30 minutes

Last on

Wed 5 Nov 202519:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Amy Beach

    Young Birches, Op. 128, No. 2

    Performer: Christopher Hopkins.
    • ARABESQUE.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    Ubi Caritas

    Choir: VOCES8. Performer: Ola Gjeilo.
    • DECCA.

  • Mel Bonis

    Violin Sonata in F sharp minor, Op. 112: iii. Thème populaire grec recueilli par

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • Le Temps retrouvé.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 3.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op. 22: I. Moderato

    Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: Serenade For Strings / Dvorák: Serenade For Strings.
    • Philips.
    • 5.

  • Josef Rheinberger

    Abendlied

    Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • A Choral Tapestry.
    • Signum.
    • 16.

  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Serenade in F major, Op.31 (2nd mvt: Canzonetta)

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Summer Nights.
    • Fazer Records/Finlandia.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude from Partita No.3 in E major, BWV.1006

    Performer: Hopkinson Smith.
    • Hopkinson Smith, Album.
    • NAIVE.
    • 21.

Broadcast

  • Wed 5 Nov 202519:00
    BBC Radio 3

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