Classical music for focus or relaxation
An eclectic mix featuring Robert Schumann, Rebecca Clarke, JS Bach and Dame Ethel Smyth among many others.
The fifth of the "12 Danzas espa帽olas" by Enrique Granados got the nickname of "Andaluza", after the southern region of Spain, for its melody evoking the genre of flamenco music. Composed originally for piano, and arranged here for harp, the left hand's part mimics the sound of a guitar. It is followed by Baroque composer Giuseppe Tartini's joyful trumpet concerto.
"Ges盲nge der Fr眉he", or "Songs of the Morning", by Robert Schumann are among the Romantic composer's last works. Dedicated to writer Bettina von Arnim, these pieces for solo piano are "dawn-songs, very original as always but hard to understand," wrote Clara Schumann. It is followed by the work of Japanese composer Rentar艒 Taki, with his "Moon over the Ruined Castle", inspired by the ruins of Aoba Castle and Aizuwakamatsu Castle, and a choral work by Rebecca Clarke, "Weep you no more, sad fountains", which echoes Elizabethan music...
Also in tonight's mixtape is a piece composed for the 1980 French animated film "The King and the Mockingbird", directed by Paul Grimault, about a ruthless king in love with a shepherdess. Love is also at the heart of "Erwin und Elmire", an opera by Princess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenb眉ttel, a patron of the arts and a composer herself, who worked with the poet Goethe for the libretto of this operatic work.
We finish with a reinterpretation of Bach, for accordion and guitar, with his "English Suite No. 3", before the emblematic "March of the Women" by Dame Ethel Smyth, which served as the anthem of the Women's Social and Political Union, and as an anthem for the Suffragette movement more generally, being one of Emmeline Pankhurst's favourites...
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Byron Brooke
Gee Whizz
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.- Dan Godfrey Encores.
- Dutton.
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Enrique Granados
Danza espa帽ola, Op. 37 No. 5 'Andaluza'
Performer: Xavier de Maistre. Performer: Lucero Tena.- Serenata Espanola.
- SONY.
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Giuseppe Tartini
Trumpet Concerto in D major (3rd mvt)
Performer: Alison Balsom. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.- Italian Concertos; Alison Balsom, Scottish Ensemble.
- EMI Classics.
- 19.
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Robert Schumann
Ges盲nge der Fr眉he, Op. 133: I. Im ruhigen Tempo
Performer: Matan Porat.- LUX.
- Mirare.
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Rentaro Taki
The Moon over the Ruined Castle (Arr. T. Nodaira for Flute & Guitar)
Composer: Tami Nodaira.- Japanese Guitar Music, Vol. 4.
- Naxos.
- 1101.
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Rebecca Clarke
Weep you no more, sad fountains
Choir: Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. Director: Geoffrey Webber.- Clarke: Choral Music.
- ASV.
- 13.
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Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky
The Swineherd Suite: VII. The Magic Kettle
Conductor: Kirill Ershov. Orchestra: Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra.- My Playlist for Baking.
- Naxos.
- 901.
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Wojciech Kilar
The King and the Mockingbird (Main Theme)
Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.- Cinema.
- Warner Classics.
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Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia
Erwin und Elmire (Overture)
Orchestra: Staatskapelle Weimar. Conductor: Peter G眉lke.- Masters of the Goethe Era.
- Capriccio.
- 6.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
English Suite No. 3 in G Minor, BWV 808: I. Prelude (Arr. for Accordion & Guitar
Performer: Lydia Schmidl. Performer: Jorge Paz Verastegui. Ensemble: Lux Nova Duo.- Inspiraci贸n Bach.
- Genuin.
- 101.
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Ethel Smyth
March Of The Women
Performer: Philip Brunelle. Choir: Plymouth Music Series Ensemble Singers.- Ethel Smyth: Mass in D.
- Virgin.
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- Fri 25 Nov 2022 19:00大象传媒 Radio 3
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