Switch up your listening with classical music
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites, including music by Chopin, Mozart, and Rheinberger.
An engaging mix of classical music for half an hour, featuring the horn concerto Mozart completed shortly after his opera The Marriage of Figaro, the Kyrie from Rheinberger’s mass for double choir - written in response to the conservative musical ideals of the Cecilian movement - and a setting of poetry by Cristóbal de Castro by de Falla, depicting the intoxicating spell cast by a lover’s dark eyes.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Horn Concerto No. 4 in E Flat Major, K. 495: II. Romance. Andante cantabile
Performer: Martin Owen. Conductor: Gábor Takács‐Nagy. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata.- Mozart: Horn Concertos.
- Chandos.
- 110.
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Frédéric Chopin
3 Nocturnes Op.9 (no.2 in E flat major)
Performer: Maria João Pires.- Chopin: The Nocturnes: Maria Joao Pires.
- DG.
- 2.
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Josef Rheinberger
Mass in E-Flat Major, Op. 109, IJR 75 "Cantus Missae": I. Kyrie
Choir: Groot Omroepkoor. Conductor: Benjamin Goodson.- Rheinberger & Mendelssohn: Choral Works.
- Pentatone.
- 101.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor, Op 10 (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.- Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Quintet; Clarinet Quintet.
- Hyperion.
- 7.
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Manuel de Falla
Tus ojillos negros
Performer: Rafael Aguirre. Singer: Fatma Said.- El Nour.
- Warner Classics.
- 4.
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Franz Schubert
Fugue in E minor D.952
Performer: Bertrand Chamayou. Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.- ERATO.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
The cloud-capp'd towers (3 Shakespeare songs)
Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.- SIGNUM.
Broadcast
- Friday19:00BBC Radio 3
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