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Expand your horizons with classical music

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape, including music by Telemann, Tchaikovsky and the Tenores di Bitti.

Glenn Miller's lively take on Italian opera is set against the real thing, and while we're in Italy, we hear some red-hot ardour from Monteverdi, and some gentle shepherding from Sardinia's Tenores di Bitti. Travelling via Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, we come to a serene finale with the first of Mahler's Ruckert-Lieder.

30 minutes

Last on

Thu 6 Apr 2023 19:00

Music Played

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Sinfonia TWV 50:1 in G major 'Grillen-Symphonie' - mov. 3 Presto

    Performer: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • Aparte.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Anvil Chorus

    Ensemble: Glenn Miller and the Army Air Force Band.
    • Army Air Force Band.
    • RCA Bluebird.
    • 5.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Di si felice innesto (The Barber of Seville, Finale Act 2)

    Singer: Teresa Berganza. Singer: Luigi Alva. Singer: Hermann Prey. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • dg.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Ardo, avvampo (Madrigals, Book 8)

    Orchestra: I Fagiolini. Director: Robert Hollingworth.
    • Monteverdi: Fire & Ashes: I Fagiolini.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Tenores di Bitti Remunnu 鈥檈 Locu

    Cantu A Ballu Seriu

    • One Voice: Vocal Music From Around The World.
    • Rough Guides.
    • 6.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in D major Op.28 'Pastorale' (4th mvt)

    Performer: Jonathan Biss.
    • Jonathan Biss: Beethoven.
    • Onyx.
    • 4.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 5 in E minor, Op 64 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Z眉rich. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • Alpha.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Ich atmet' einen linden Duft (R眉ckert-Lieder)

    Singer: Magdalena Ko啪en谩. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Love and Longing - Ravel; Dvorak; Mahler.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 17.

Broadcast

  • Thu 6 Apr 2023 19:00

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