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Put a spring in your step with a selection of classical music inspired by the season.

Put a spring in your step with a selection of classical music inspired by the season.

This edition of Classical Mixtape opens with Howard Skempton's beautiful choral setting of words from the Biblical love song, Song of Songs. Next up is Steve Reich's pulsing, driving Nagoya Marimbas and, from several hundred years earlier, the joyful energy of Aria di Firenze per la C by Giovanni Paolo Foscarini. We've a brass setting of Anton Bruckner's uplifting anthem Os Justi; Florence Price's questing arrangement of gospel music for string quartet; and the joyful Playful Pizzicato from Britten's Simple Symphony. The mixtape closes with Morten Lauridsen's lyrical setting, for choir and piano, of poetry by James Agee, and Aaron Copland's timeless Variations on a Shaker Melody from Appalachian Spring.

Producer: Christina Kenny for 大象传媒 Audio

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Wed 12 Mar 2025 19:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Howard Skempton

    Rise Up, My Love

    Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • First Drop.
    • Cantaloupe Music.
    • 1.

  • Steve Reich

    Nagoya Marimbas

    Performer: Colin Currie. Performer: Sam Walton.
    • Striking A Balance: Contemporary Percussion Music.
    • EMI.
    • 12.

  • Giovanni Paolo Foscarini

    Aria di Firenze per la C

    Performer: Rolf Lislevand. Ensemble: Ensemble Kapsberger.
    • Alfabeto: Foscarini - Pellegrini - Granata - Corbetta.
    • Naive.
    • 6.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Os justi - gradual arr. for brass [orig. for 8 voices]

    Music Arranger: Stephen Hicks. Ensemble: Septura.
    • NAXOS.

  • Florence Price

    Five Folksongs in Counterpoint (No 1, Calvary. Adagio vigoroso)

    Performer: Apollo Chamber Ensemble.
    • Navona Records.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Simple symphony Op.4 (Playful pizzicato)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • Britten: Young person's guide to the orchestra etc: LSO/ECO/Britten.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

  • Morten Lauridsen

    Sure on this shining night (Nocturnes)

    Choir: Polyphony. Performer: Morten Lauridsen. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Lauridsen: Nocturnes, Mid-Winter Songs, Les Chansons des Roses: Polyphony, Layto.
    • Hyperion.
    • 16.

  • Aaron Copland

    Variations on a Shaker Hymn (Appalachian Spring)

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Warner.

Broadcast

  • Wed 12 Mar 2025 19:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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