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A chilled half hour of classical music

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

An engaging mix of classical music for half an hour, featuring the lush Allegretto from Granados’ Piano Quintet, Nadia Boulanger’s setting of Henry Bataille’s poetry, and Philip Stopford’s portrayal of the Virgin comforting her baby, plus clarinettist Martin Fröst soothes the ghost of Alecto in Purcell’s incidental music to the play Oedipus.

30 minutes

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Fri 12 Dec 202519:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Enrique Granados

    Piano Quintet in G Minor: II. Allegretto quasi andantino

    Performer: Alissa Margulis. Performer: Géza Hosszu-Legocky. Performer: Lyda Chen. Performer: Natalia Margulis. Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet No 2 in D major (Nocturne)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • The Best of The Academy.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 10.

  • Nadia Boulanger

    Prière

    Performer: Tristan Raës. Singer: Cyrille Dubois.
    • Aparté.

  • Henry Purcell

    Music for a While (Oedipus)

    Music Arranger: Sebastien Dubé. Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Sebastien Dubé.
    • SONY.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sir András Schiff. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Director: Sir András Schiff.
    • Piano Masterworks The World's Favourite Piano Classics.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Philip Stopford

    Lully, Lulla, Lullay

    Ensemble: VOCES8. Director: Barnaby Smith.
    • After Silence.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 10.

Broadcast

  • Fri 12 Dec 202519:00
    BBC Radio 3

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