Music for a summer's evening
Choral music spanning 750 years bookends this episode of Radio 3’s Classical Mixtape – from the anonymous 13th-century round Sumer is icumen in to Eric Whitacre’s Sleep.
Choral music spanning 750 years bookends this episode of Radio 3’s Classical Mixtape – from the anonymous 13th-century round Sumer is icumen in to Eric Whitacre’s Sleep, composed in 2000. Also included are beautiful works by composers Johann Christian Bach, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Claude Debussy, Florence Price and Paul Reade, plus film music by Snorri Hallgrímsson.
This edition of the Classical Mixtape was produced by Christina Kenny for BBC Audio.
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Anon.
Sumer is icumen in
Ensemble: Huelgas Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Van Nevel.- Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Folk songs from Somerset (March)
Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.- Chandos.
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Paul Reade
Suite from "The Victorian Kitchen Garden" - I: Prelude, Andante pastorale
Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.- Chandos.
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Johann Christian Bach
String Quartet in B-Flat Major, W. B60: II, Rondeau Grazioso (Arr. oboe quartet)
Performer: Max Artved. Performer: Elise Båtnes. Performer: Tue Lautrup. Performer: Dimitri Golovanov. Performer: Lars Holm Johansen.- Naxos.
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Claude Debussy
Passepied (Suite bergamasque)
Music Arranger: Punch Brothers. Performer: Punch Brothers.- The Phosphorescent Blues.
- Nonesuch.
- 3.
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Florence Price
Adoration
Music Arranger: Samuel Araya. Ensemble: Isidore String Quartet.- Adorations.
- Delos.
- 10.
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Snorri Hallgrímsson
Chasing the Present
Performer: Snorri Hallgrímsson. Performer: Karl Pestka. Performer: Unnur Jónsdóttir.- Lime Blue Music Limited.
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Eric Whitacre
Sleep
Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.- Hyperion.
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- Wed 1 Jul 202619:00BBC Radio 3
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