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Classical music for focus or relaxation

In Tune's classical music mixtape: an imaginative, eclectic mix featuring music by Debussy, Elgar, Karine Polwart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart and Shostakovich.

Tonight, we begin with Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum from Debussy鈥檚 Children Corner, Elgar鈥檚 Pomp and Circumstance March No 2 raises the spirits as Karine Polwart bids farewell to winter and asks us to Follow the Heron. Beethoven鈥檚 heartfelt Cavatina from his Op 130 String Quartet offers a moment of reflection before spring lambs gambol with a movement from Schubert鈥檚 Octet. Papageno entertains with his magic bells as he pleads for a wife, before Shostakovich returns us to the piano and brings our journey for this evening to an end.

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Mon 28 Mar 2022 19:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (Children's Corner)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.3: Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.

  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance March No 2 in A minor, Op 39

    Conductor: Adrian Boult. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Elgar: Enigma variations/Pomp and circumstance marches: Boult.
    • EMI.

  • Karine Polwart

    Follow the Heron

    Singer: Karine Polwart. Performer: Kevin McGuire. Performer: Inge Thomson. Performer: Mattie Foulds.
    • The Rough Guide To Scottish Folk.
    • WORLD MUSIC.
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in B flat major, Op.130 (5th mvt)

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • ECM.

  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F major, D 803 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Octet.
    • Schubert: Octet.
    • Nimbus.
    • 3.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ein M盲dchen oder Weibchen (The Magic Flute)

    Singer: Simon Keenlyside. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ulf Schirmer.
    • Simon Keenlyside: Tales of Opera.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude and fugue for piano no. 7 (Op.87`7) in A major

    Performer: Tatiana Nikolayeva.
    • Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87: Tatiana Nicolayeva.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

Broadcast

  • Mon 28 Mar 2022 19:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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