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Radio 3,12 Dec 2025,30 mins

A chilled half hour of classical music

Classical Mixtape

Expires today 7:30pm

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.

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  1. Track
    Artist
  2. 1.
    Piano Quintet in G Minor: II. Allegretto quasi andantino
    Piano Quintet in G Minor: II. Allegretto quasi andantino
    Enrique Granados
  3. 2.
    String Quartet No 2 in D major (Nocturne)
    String Quartet No 2 in D major (Nocturne)
    Alexander Borodin
  4. 3.
    Prière
    Prière
    Nadia Boulanger
  5. 4.
    Music for a While (Oedipus)
    Music for a While (Oedipus)
    Henry Purcell
  6. 5.
    Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971 (2nd mvt)
    Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971 (2nd mvt)
    Johann Sebastian Bach
  7. 6.
    Lully, Lulla, Lullay
    Lully, Lulla, Lullay
    Philip Stopford