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Switch up your listening with classical music

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites.

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Music Played

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Notturno, for violin, harp and string orchestra

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Jane Berthe. Orchestra: Zürcher Kammerorchester.
    • DG.

  • Peter Warlock

    Cradle song for voice and piano

    Singer: John Mark Ainsley. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • Songs by Peter Warlock.
    • Hyperion.
    • 30.

  • Carl Friedrich Abel

    Postlude for viola da gamba

    Performer: Friederike Heumann.
    • CPE Bach: Solo a Viola Di Gamba Col Basso: Friederike Heumann.
    • ALPHA.
    • 11.

  • Claude Debussy

    Children's Corner: The Little Shepherd

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • DECCA.

  • Mel Bonis

    Suite Orientale (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Béla Bartók

    Romanian Folk Dance No 1

    Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Bartok: The Wooden Prince (Final Version).
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 23.

  • Edward Elgar

    Sospiri

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • British Composers - Elgar, Stanford & Parry.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Adagio in G minor

    Composer: Remo Giazotto. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • 100 Best Relaxing Classics.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 18.

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    BBC Radio 3

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