The eclectic classical mix
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites.
An engaging mix of classical music for half an hour, featuring the music from the masques Purcell wrote to punctuate Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tōru Takemitsu’s portrayal of a Long Island pond painted by Cornelia Foss, and the Desford Colliery Band ponder the shade cast by a plane tree, plus Pavel Chesnokov sets the liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom
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Felix Mendelssohn
String Symphony No. 8 in D Major, MWV N 8: II. Adagio
Orchestra: Irish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jörg Widmann.- Pentatone.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Impromptu no.2 in B minor
Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.- Decca.
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Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov
Tebe poyem [We hymn Thee]
Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.- Signum.
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George Frideric Handel
Largo [Ombra mai fu] (Serse)
Music Arranger: Stephen Roberts. Ensemble: Desford Colliery Band. Conductor: Stephen Roberts.- The Real Brassed Off.
- EMI.
- 20.
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Toru Takemitsu
In the Woods: I. Wainscot Pond
Performer: Sean Shibe.- PENTATONE.
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Henry Purcell
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act III: If Love's a Sweet Passion
Performer: Thomas Dunford. Singer: Lea Desandre. Singer: Alex Rosen. Singer: Huw Montague Rendall. Singer: Jess Dandy. Singer: Laurence Kilsby. Ensemble: Jupiter.- Erato.
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Louise Héritte-Viardot
Piano Quartet No 1 in A major, 'In Summer' (2nd mvt, Flies and Butterflies)
Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.- Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 2.
- Chandos.
- 102.
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