Classical music for focus or relaxation
Whether you're more opera or operetta, Bach or Beethoven, fast-paced galop or relaxed promenade, animated films or cinema classics, there is something for everyone in the mixtape!
From "Romeo and Juliet" to "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg", it seems that impossible love opens and closes tonight's mixtape... But not to worry, lots of light-hearted joy also awaits in our tunes!
Let's dance a galop with Franz Schubert, join a musical cortege with Lili Boulanger, and take a promenade with George Gershwin (walking the dog!), and, in our way, meet a fantastic fox - thank you Mr. Desplat -, hear the sound of a rose through the piano of Dora Peja膷evi膰, and march with ballerina dolls automated by L茅o Delibes.
With this, some Beethoven for eight please, a bit of fun with Bach just for badinage, and the song of an operetta bouncer, courtesy of Sullivan (pre-Gilbert).
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Producer: Julien Rosa
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Charles Gounod
Rom茅o et Juliette - Ah, je veux vivre
Lyricist: Jules Barbier. Lyricist: Michel Carr茅. Conductor: Riccardo Frizza. Orchestra: RAI National Symphony Orchestra.- Made for Opera.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 15.
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Alexandre Desplat
Mr Fox in the Fields
Conductor: Alexandre Desplat.- Fantastic Mr. Fox (Original Soundtrack).
- Abaco Records.
- 3.
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L茅o Delibes
Coppelia, Act II: Musique des automates
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Mark Ermler.- Delibes: Coppelia (Highlights).
- Sony Classical.
- 08.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Badin茅rie (Orchestral Suite no.2, BWV.1067)
Music Arranger: Ward Swingle. Choir: The Swingle Singers.- Anyone for Mozart, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi? The Swingle Singers.
- Philips.
- 06.
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Franz Schubert
Polka and Galopp D 735
Orchestrator: Bruno Maderna. Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.- Claudio Abbado: Marce e danze.
- DG.
- 5-6.
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George Gershwin
Walking the Dog (Shall we Dance)
Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Performer: Michael Tilson Thomas.- Gershwin: The 1920s & 1930s: Tilson Thomas.
- CBS Masterworks.
- 8.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Wind Octet in E flat major, Op 103 (4th mvt)
Performer: Gerard Reuter. Performer: Marc Schachman. Performer: Charles Neidich. Performer: Ayako Oshima. Performer: Dennis Godburn. Performer: Michael O'Donovan. Performer: William Purvis. Performer: Stewart Rose. Ensemble: Mozzafiato. Conductor: Charles Neidich.- Beethoven: Chamber music for wind instruments: Mozzafiato/Neidich.
- Sony Classical.
- 4.
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Lili Boulanger
Nocturne
Performer: Merel Vercammen. Performer: Dina Ivanova.- The Boulanger Legacy.
- Trptk.
- 02.
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Arthur Sullivan
Yes, yes, in those merry days (Bouncer's Song), from Cox and Box
Singer: Donald Maxwell. Choir: Royal Welsh College Chamber Choir of Music and Drama. Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- Sullivan: Cox and Box/ Trial by Jury.
- CHANDOS.
- 03.
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Dora Peja膷evi膰
Rose (Blumenleben Op.19)
Performer: Hiroko Ishimoto.- Pioneers: Piano Works by Female Composers.
- Grand Piano.
- 101.
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Michel Legrand
Les parapluies de Cherbourg
Orchestra: The Flemish Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Michel Legrand.- The Essential Michel Legrand Film Music Collection.
- SILVA SCREEN.
- 1.
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- Wed 9 Nov 2022 19:00大象传媒 Radio 3
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