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Switch up your listening with classical music

An unpresented mix of classical music that shimmers, gleams and glints. With watery music from Ravel and Saint-Saens, sunlight and starlight from Thomas Ades, Erik Esenvalds and Lubomyr Melnyk, and Respighi's glittering evocation of Spring.

Producer: Elizabeth Funning

30 minutes

Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    Jeux d'Eaux

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • DG.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Aquarium (Carnival of the Animals)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • Sir Charles' Precious Music Box 1, Groves, Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • DENON.
    • 22.
  • E虅riks Es虒envalds

    Stars

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Lux.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Lubomyr Melnyk

    Sunshimmers

    Performer: Jamie Perera. Performer: Hyelim Kim. Performer: Lubomyr Melnyk.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in A minor, BWV.947

    Performer: Laurindo Almeida. Ensemble: The Modern Jazz Quartet.
  • Thomas Ad猫s

    In Seven Days: IV. Stars - Sun - Moon

    Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: Thomas Ad猫s.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Spring (3 Botticelli Pictures)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 6 May 2019 19:00
  • Wed 23 Feb 2022 19:00

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