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Music for a summer's evening

Choral music spanning 750 years bookends this episode of Radio 3’s Classical Mixtape – from the anonymous 13th-century round Sumer is icumen in to Eric Whitacre’s Sleep.

Choral music spanning 750 years bookends this episode of Radio 3’s Classical Mixtape – from the anonymous 13th-century round Sumer is icumen in to Eric Whitacre’s Sleep, composed in 2000. Also included are beautiful works by composers Johann Christian Bach, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Claude Debussy, Florence Price and Paul Reade, plus film music by Snorri Hallgrímsson.

This edition of the Classical Mixtape was produced by Christina Kenny for BBC Audio.

Release date:

30 minutes

On radio

Wed 1 Jul 202619:00

Broadcast

  • Wed 1 Jul 202619:00

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