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

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, including works by Lili Boulanger, Claude Debussy, Eric Whitacre, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

Half and hour of back-to-back classical music to help wind down at the end of a busy day. This sequence begins with an enchanting Lili Boulanger composition conjuring up 'spring mornings', before moving back in time to Anna Bon's Flute Sonata No 2, composed when she was just 16 in 1756. Also in the mix is a gentle guitar arrangement of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Deep River, Claude Debussy's iconic Arabesque No 1, and the balletic Prelude from Cécile Chaminade's Callirhoé. Eric Whitacre's gorgeous 'The Seal Lullaby' closes today's Classical Mixtape.

Producer: Joe Blamey

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Fri 6 Feb 202619:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Lili Boulanger

    D'un matin de printemps

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon. Conductor: Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider.
    • Aux étoiles - French Symphonic Poems.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 3.

  • Anna Bon di Venezia

    Flute Sonata No 2 in F Major, Op 1 (1st mvt, Largo)

    Performer: Silvia Moroni. Performer: Miranda Aureli.
    • ANNA BON: Sei Sonate da Camera per il Flauto Traversiere.
    • Tactus.
    • 1.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Deep River I

    Performer: Ashley Jackson.
    • Decca Records US.

  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque No.1 in E major

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Debussy: Suite bergamasque; Children's Corner; 2 Arabesques & Other Solo Piano M.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Callirhoé (Prelude)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Metz. Conductor: David Reiland.
    • Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 1.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Seal Lullaby

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Choir: Laudibus. Performer: Christopher Glynn. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Eric Whitacre: Light & Gold: Eric Whitacre.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

Broadcast

  • Fri 6 Feb 202619:00
    BBC Radio 3

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