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Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites, including music by Elgar, Bernstein and Handel.

Today's 30‑minute sequence begins with the gentle and calming combination of clarinet and piano from the composer Camille Saint‑Saëns, before venturing to the Bavarian Highlands in Edward Elgar’s ‘On the Alm’ arranged for chorus and orchestra. The sequence concludes with the captivating sound of Rebecca Clarke’s Daybreak. It arrives there via a reflective moment from Leonard Bernstein’s ‘A Quiet Place’, taken from the 1983 opera of the same name, the elaborate and expressive tones of George Frideric Handel’s 'I Know That My Redeemer Liveth', and a beautifully pensive piece by film composers Anthony John and Alexandra Harwood, 'Beginning at the End', from the movie 'The Escape'.

Produced by Sam Harding.

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Friday 19:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in B major, Op.32 No.11

    Performer: Boris Giltburg.
    • Rachmaninoff: 24 Préludes.
    • Naxos.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio Op.1 No.3 - iii Menuetto, quasi allegro

    Ensemble: Trio con Brio Copenhagen.
    • ORCHID CLASSICS.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto No.2 in D major - 3rd mvt Rondo (Allegro)

    Performer: Maximilian Hornung. Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy. Conductor: Antonello Manacorda.
    • Sony.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D minor Kk.9 'Pastorale'

    Performer: Anne Queffélec.
    • Scarlatti: Sonatas.
    • Warner Apex.

  • Louise Héritte-Viardot

    Piano Quartet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 9 "Im Sommer": III. Die Schwüle

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 103.

Broadcast

  • Friday 19:00
    BBC Radio 3

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