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Classical music to inspire you

Happy Handel, ravishing Ravel and heavenly Howells populate the Classical Mixtape with half an hour of uninterrupted music. Music also includes works by Bach, Gershwin, and award winning gaming music by Bear McCreary

Producer: Helen Garrison

30 minutes

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in B flat major, Op 6 No 7 (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Andrew Manze.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Petite Suite (La Caprice de Nanette)

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics, Vol. 4.
    • HYPERION.
    • 17.
  • Anonymous 13th Century

    S'on me regarde

    Director: David Munrow. Ensemble: Early Music Consort of London.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Bear McCreary

    God of War "Memories of Mother"

    Orchestra: London Session Orchestra. Choir: London Voices. Choir: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis. Choir: The City of Prague Philharmonic Choir. Conductor: Ben Parry. Conductor: H枚r冒ur 脕skelsson.
    • God of War (PlayStation Soundtrack).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in E major BWV.854 (Bk 1, The Well-Tempered Clavier)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 17.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Sheherazade: III. L'indifferent

    Singer: Christiane Karg. Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Afkham.
    • BERLIN CLASSICS.
  • Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky

    Pathetique Overture, Op. 64

    Conductor: Anatoly Lapunov. Orchestra: Byelorussian Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra.
    • Kabalevsky.
    • Delos.
    • 301.
  • Herbert Howells

    Nunc dimittis (Collegium Sancti Johannis)

    Performer: Timothy Ravalde. Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Director: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • Howells: St John's Magnificat - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.
  • George Gershwin

    Lady, be Good!: Oh, lady, be good!

    Music Arranger: Neal Thornton. Music Arranger: Lewis Wright. Music Arranger: Julian Bliss. Ensemble: Julian Bliss Septet.
    • A Tribute to Benny Goodman.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 106.

Broadcast

  • Tue 4 Apr 2023 19:00

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