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Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music from favourites such as Boccherini, Glazunov, and Schubert.

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music from the sun-dappled intimacy of Boccherini's Guitar Quintet, to the delicate piano miniature of Chaminade's Serenade in D. Glazunov offers theatrical colour and youthful verve in his Scenes de ballet into Schubert's Junglingswonne. Vivaldi provides jubilant choral writing lifting us skyward, before gently returning to earth with Hasselman's tranquil La Source for harp. Finally, Dvorak's American quartet provides just the right amount of nostalgia to close today's classical mixtape.

Producer: Zara Siddiqi

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Wed 23 Apr 2025 19:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D Major, G. 448: I. Pastorale

    Ensemble: Dimov String Quartet.
    • Boccherini, L.: Guitar Quintets Nos. 4-6.
    • Capriccio.
    • 1.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Serenade in D major, Op 29

    Performer: Peter Jacobs.
    • Cécile Chaminade - Piano Music.
    • Helios.
    • 10.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Pas d'action (Scenes de ballet)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Glazunov - From the Middle Ages etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 010.

  • Franz Schubert

    Die Nacht, D 983/4

    Choir: Sonat Vox. Conductor: Justus Merkel.
    • Animato.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Laudamus te (Gloria in D major, RV 589)

    Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Singer: Katharine Gowers. Singer: Lucy Ballard.
    • Vivaldi: Gloria, Handel: Gloria, Dixit Dominus: John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips Classics.
    • 3.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quartet No 12 in F major, Op 96, 'American' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Smetana Quartet.
    • Dvorak: Streichquartette Nr. 12 and 14.
    • EMI.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Wed 23 Apr 2025 19:00
    BBC Radio 3

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