Switch up your listening with classical music

Available for 27 days

Take time out with a 30-minute classical soundscape, bookended with music inspired by Shakespeare and his wife Anne (also known as Agnes). This edition of the Classical Mixtape opens with Ralph Vaughan Williams’s The Cloud-Capp’d Towers (its text taken from The Tempest) and closes with music from Max Richter’s Oscar-nominated score for the 2025 film Hamnet. We also hear music from composers Joanna Marsh, Gerald Finzi, Frederic Chopin, JS Bach, Frank Martin, Dobrinka Tabakova and Clara Schumann. Producer: Christina Kenny.