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Thirty minutes of reflective music

A reflective mix of classical music for half an hour, featuring Kerensa Briggs’ meditation on redemption and Vaughan Williams’ depiction of the music Katherine of Aragon used to heal her grief, plus the Austrian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja plays perhaps one of Chopin’s best known nocturnes.

30 minutes

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Thu 6 Nov 202519:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne No. 8 in D-Flat Major, Op. 27 No. 2

    Performer: Elisabeth Leonskaja.
    • Chopin: Nocturnes [Complete].
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 8.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Legends Op.59 (no.6 in C sharp minor)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Kerensa Briggs

    Media vita

    Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Nightfall.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 13.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C Minor, BWV 1060: II - Adagio

    Performer: Emmanuel Laporte. Performer: Amandine Beyer.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Giovanni Paolo Foscarini

    Li cinque libri della chitarra alla spagnola: Tasteggiata

    Performer: Rolf Lislevand.
    • Libro primo.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 2.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Orpheus with his lute

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • HYPERION.

  • Una Sveinbjarnardóttir

    Opacity: III - Elegia

    Ensemble: Siggi String Quartet.
    • Dorian Sono Luminus.

  • William Grant Still

    Swanee River

    Performer: Hartmut Höll.
    • Still: Songs & Piano Music.
    • CPO.
    • 120.

Broadcast

  • Thu 6 Nov 202519:00
    BBC Radio 3

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