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Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music from Rebecca Clarke, Edward Elgar, Claude Debussy, Fryderyk Chopin, and more.

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music.

We begin tonight's Classical Mixtape with a pair of late Romantic English composers often inspired by folk melodies, Rebecca Clarke and Edward Elgar. We then cross the channel to hear from two prominent French composers, Gabriel Fauré and Claude Debussy. Next, we have a pair of 'Nocturnes', from Edvard Grieg and Fryderyk Chopin. Finally we have two film scores, Philip Glass' String Quartet 'Mishima' and - to close tonight's sequence - the End Title from 'The Shawshank Redemption', by Thomas Newman.

Producer: Joe Blamey

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Music Played

  • Rebecca Clarke

    I'll bid my heart be still

    Performer: Avril Piston. Performer: Shamonia Harpa.
    • Heartache: Piston / Harpa.
    • Guild.
    • 17.

  • Edward Elgar

    Sospiri

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mirga Gražinytė‐Tyla.
    • DG.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    In Paradisum (Requiem in D minor, Op 48)

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Fauré: Requiem & Messe basse.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 108.

  • Claude Debussy

    Bruyères (Preludes Bk.2 no.5)

    Orchestrator: Colin Matthews. Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Notturno (Lyric Pieces, Op.54)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • HYPERION.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne (No 20 in C-sharp minor)

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Music Arranger: Craig Leon. Conductor: Michael Stern. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • The Essential Joshua Bell.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • Philip Glass

    String Quartet No 3 (4th mvt, Mishima / Closing)

    Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.
    • NAXOS.

  • Thomas Newman

    End Title (from 'The Shawshank Redemption')

    Conductor: Thomas Newman.
    • The Shawshank Redemption.
    • Epic Soundtrax.
    • 21.

Broadcast

  • Friday19:00
    BBC Radio 3

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