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Classical music for your journey

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, including works by Percy Grainger, Handel, Amy Beach, Meredith Monk, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, including Percy Grainger's Country Gardens in an arrangement for wind orchestra, Meredith Monks' Ellis Island for two pianos, an aria from Handel's Serse performed by cello and piano, choral music by Amy Beach, a quintet for clarinet and strings by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and a prelude for guitar by Villa-Lobos.

Producer: Eleonora Claps

30 minutes

Last on

Tue 11 Nov 202519:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Percy Grainger

    Country Gardens

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Meredith Monk

    Ellis Island

    Performer: Ursula Oppens. Performer: Bruce Brubaker.
    • ECM.

  • Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger

    Canario

    Ensemble: Los Otros.
    • Tinto: Los Otros.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 19.

  • Amy Beach

    Peace I Leave with You

    Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Ensemble: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Ensemble: Pembroke College Girls' Choir.
    • All Things Are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Records.
    • 10.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Ombra mai fu (Serse) arr. for cello & piano

    Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Performer: Julian Riem.
    • Serse, HWV 40, Act I: Ombra mai fu (Arr. for Cello and Piano).
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.

  • Frederick Delius

    Irmelin (Prelude)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • EMI.

  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    5 Preludes, W419: no.5 in D major

    Performer: Plínio Fernandes.
    • Saudade.
    • Decca Records US.
    • 12.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor, Op 10 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Kelly Burke. Performer: Janet Orenstein. Performer: John Fadial. Performer: Scott Rawls. Performer: Brooks Whitehouse.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; Chamber Music.
    • CENTAUR.
    • 2.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Harp Sonata (Perpetuum Mobile)

    Performer: Sarah Schuster Ericsson.
    • DORIAN SONO LUMINUS.

Broadcast

  • Tue 11 Nov 202519:00
    BBC Radio 3

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