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Your go-to introduction to classical music

Something for everybody in tonight's mixtape, including a piercingly beautiful duet from Handel, a haunting film score from a recent Oscar winning movie, and something which will be familiar to all Frasier fans.

Producer: Helen Garrison

30 minutes

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    He shall drink of the torrent (Dixit Dominus)

    Singer: Angela Kazimierczuk. Singer: Katherine Fugue. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Vivaldi Gloria / Handel Dixit Dominus.
    • Philips.
    • 026.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Fossils (Carnival of the Animals)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Nelson Freire. Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: Isabelle van Keulen. Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: Mischa Maisky. Performer: Georg H枚rtnagel. Performer: Irena Grafenauer. Performer: Eduard Brunner. Performer: Edith Salmen-Weber. Performer: Markus Steckeler.
  • Bruce Miller

    Frasier

    Ensemble: Bruce Miller.
  • Peteris Vasks

    The Fruit of Silence

    Choir: VOCES8. Performer: Huw Watkins.
    • DECCA.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Savoy Dances (Hornpipe; Cachucha)

    Orchestra: Pro Arte Orchestra. Conductor: Stanford Robinson.
    • EMI.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Chorale-Prelude 'O Welt, ich muss dich lassen', Op 122

    Performer: Kevin Bowyer.
    • Brahms Complete Organ Works / Kevin Bowyer.
    • Nimbus.
    • 7.
  • Alexandre Desplat

    The Shape of Water (Main theme)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alexandre Desplat.
    • The Shape of Water.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Liza Lehmann

    If no one ever marries me (The Daisy Chain)

    Performer: Steuart Bedford. Singer: Janice Watson.
    • Collins.
  • Ernest John Moeran

    Symphony in G minor

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Naxos.

Broadcast

  • Wed 28 Oct 2020 19:00

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