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Radio 3,22 Jul 2026,30 mins

Your daily classical soundtrack

Classical Mixtape

Available for 29 days

Today's mixtape opens with a fragile Mozart piano concerto, leading into folk-inflected Annie Laurie by Lady John Douglas Scott. Anticipation builds with music from the film The Mercy by Jóhann Jóhannsson, before the mournful sounds of Dido's Lament, arranged for orchestra. This is followed by some lush symphonic Parry and two nocturnes: one by Humperdinck for string quartet and solo violin, and one by Chopin for piano to close.

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  1. Track
    Artist
  2. 1.
    Annie Laurie
    Annie Laurie
    Alicia Ann Spottiswoode
  3. 2.
    The Mercy (Into The Wide And Deep Unknown)
    The Mercy (Into The Wide And Deep Unknown)
    Jóhann Jóhannsson
  4. 3.
    When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas)
    When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas)
    Henry Purcell