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Find your focus with calming classical music

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music. To listen on most smart speakers just say 'ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Mixtape'.

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Fri 19 Dec 202519:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Pérotin

    Beata viscera - monophonic conductus

    Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble.
    • ECM.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    The Arts and the Hours (Les Boréades)

    Music Arranger: Víkingur Ólafsson. Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Judith Weir

    Drop down ye heavens from above

    Choir: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas.
    • Advent at Merton: Choir of Merton College, Oxford.
    • Delphian.
    • 5.

  • Erik Satie

    Gnossienne no.1 in F minor

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Benjamin Britten

    A Shepherd's Carol

    Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Conductor: Simon Preston.
    • Choir of Westminster Abbey - Christmas Carols.
    • DG.
    • 19.

Broadcast

  • Fri 19 Dec 202519:00
    BBC Radio 3

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