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Half an hour of the finest classical music

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music including pieces by Elgar, Shostakovich, Bach, Glazunov, Handel, Joanna Marsh and Grieg.

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music including Salut d'amour on the cello by Elgar, Shostakovich's Gadfly arranged for viola, also another arrangement, this time for the piano of one of Bach's partitas for violin solo; Glazunov's scherzo from his Symphony No. 1; a pensive allemande from one of Handel's suites, 'Morning mood' from Grieg's incidental music for Peer Gynt, and Joanna Marsh's I take Thee, a choral piece with Gesualdo Six.
Producer: Juan Carlos Jaramillo

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 11 Sep 2023 19:00

Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Salut d'amour Op.12

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mario Venzago.
    • Elgar: Cello Concerto: Sol Gabetta/Danish National Symphony Orchestra/Venzago.
    • RCA.
    • 6.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: I. Prelude (Arr. S. Rachmaninoff for

    Composer: Sergey Rachmaninov. Performer: Angelika Nebel.
    • Bach: Transcriptions 鈥 Opus Magnum II.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 201.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Romance (The Gadfly)

    Music Arranger: Vadim Borisovsky. Performer: Lawrence Power. Performer: Simon Crawford鈥怭hillips.
    • Shostakovich: Music for viola and piano: Power/Crawford-Phillips.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Op. 5, "Slavyanskaya": II. Scherzo. Allegro

    Conductor: Alexander Anisimov. Orchestra: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Glazunov, A.K.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 7 - Symphonies Nos. 1, "Slavyanskaya" an.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • Joanna Marsh

    I take thee

    Ensemble: The Gesualdo Six. Director: Owain Park.
    • HYPERION.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Keyboard Suite, HWV 430 in E major 'The Harmonious Blacksmith' (Allemande)

    Performer: Inon Barnatan.
    • Time Traveler鈥檚 Suite.
    • Pentatone.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Morning Mood (Peer Gynt, Op.23)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Grieg - San Francisco Symphony.
    • DECCA.

Broadcast

  • Mon 11 Sep 2023 19:00

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