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Ease into the evening with classical music

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, featuring music from Sergey Rachmaninov, Lucy Walker, Fanny Mendelssohn, and film composer Nicholas Britell.

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music. Tonight's mixtape starts with Lucy Walker's dreamy Give Me Your Stars, sung by the inimitable VOCES8. Gentle solo pieces from Rachmaninov and Brahms take us up to Joe Hisaishi's beautifully cinematic Nostalgia. Tonight's mixtape ends with Agape (from the Greek word for unconditional love), a meditative and transcendent piece from Nicholas Britell's Oscar-nominated score for If Beale Street Could Talk. You can hear more film music on Radio 3’s Sound of Cinema, or on Radio 3 Unwind’s Cinematic Soundtracks - both are available on BBC Sounds.

Producer: Joe Blamey

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Monday19:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Lucy Walker

    Give Me Your Stars

    Composer: Sara Teasdale. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • TWENTY.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Lilacs Op.21`5

    Performer: Sergei Babayan.
    • DG.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Waltz in A flat major, Op 39 No 15

    Performer: Catrin Finch. Music Arranger: Catrin Finch.
    • Lullabies.
    • DG.
    • 10.

  • Joe Hisaishi

    Nostalgia

    Performer: Joe Hisaishi. Orchestra: Orchestra Città di Ferrara.
    • NOSTALGIA -PIANO STORIES III-.
    • Universal Music LLC.
    • 1.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E-Flat Major: I. Adagio ma non troppo

    • Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    6 Romances, Op. 6 No. 6 'None but the Lonely Heart'

    Performer: Takako Nishizaki. Music Arranger: Peter Breiner. Conductor: Peter Breiner. Orchestra: Queensland Orchestra.
    • Music for Reading.
    • Naxos Special Projects.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645

    Music Arranger: Ottorino Respighi. Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • NAXOS.

  • Nicholas Britell

    Agape (If Beale Street Could Talk)

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Britell.
    • LAKESHORE RECORDS.

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  • Monday19:00
    BBC Radio 3

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