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Take 30 minutes out with a relaxing classical mix

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites, including music by John Williams, Mendelssohn and Thomas Adès.

Today's mixtape opens with some melancholy Beethoven on brass, followed by strident strings by Mendelssohn. This leads into the nostalgic sounds of Hymn to the Fallen from Saving Private Ryan by John Williams. Lesser-known piano music by Josephine Lang melts into heart-wrenching music for string quartet by Thomas Adès, before a chirpy mandolin concerto by Giovanni Paisiello picks up the mood. The mixtape closes with a pastoral idyll by George Butterworth.

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Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    3 Equali for 4 trombones, WoO 30

    Ensemble: Berlin Trombone Quintet.
    • Berlin Trombone Quintet.
    • Musica Mundi.
    • 03.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Symphony No. 12 in G Minor, MWV N 12: I. Fuga. Grave - Allegro

    Conductor: Henry Raudales.
    • Felix Mendelssohn: The Complete String Symphonies.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    An Silvia, D.891

    Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Nicky Spence.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Chanson écossaise

    Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Nicky Spence.

  • John Williams

    Hymn To The Fallen (Saving Private Ryan)

    Choir: Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
    • Saving Private Ryan.
    • Geffen.
    • 1.

  • Robert Schumann

    Hochländers Abschied (Myrthen, Op. 25 No. 13)

    Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Nicky Spence.

  • Josephine Lang

    Gruss in die Ferne, Op 44

    Performer: Ian Tindale.

  • Thomas Adès

    O Albion (Arcadiana)

    Ensemble: Endellion Quartet.
    • Ades: Living Toys.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 14.

  • Giovanni Paisiello

    Mandolin Concerto in E flat major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Ugo Orlandi. Orchestra: I Solisti Veneti. Conductor: Claudio Scimone.
    • The Magic of the Mandoline - Greatest Concertos. Mandoline and string orchestra.
    • Erato.
    • 10.

  • George Butterworth

    English Idyll no.1

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle: English Rhapsody.
    • Halle.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Wednesday21:00
    BBC Radio 3

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