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Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites from composers including John Eccles, J.S. Bach (and his son Wilhelm Friedemann), Rachmaninov, Elisaveta Kashperova and John Adams' orchestration of a sublime song by Debussy.

Producer: Dom Wells

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Music Played

  • John Eccles

    Ground: Aire (The Mad Lover Suite)

    Performer: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • The Mad Lover.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 101.

  • Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

    12 Polonaises: No 8 in E Minor

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • BACH: The Art of Life (Encore Edition).
    • DG.
    • 3.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony No 2 in E minor - 3rd mvt: Adagio

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • EMI.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite no.6 in D major, BWV.1012 (Allemande)

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma.
    • J. S. Bach, The Cello Suites: Yo-Yo Ma.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13.

  • Elisaveta Kashperova

    Prelude No 2 in D flat major (from Two Preludes after Konstantin Balmont)

    Performer: Hiroaki Takenouchi.

  • Claude Debussy

    Recueillement (Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire)

    Music Arranger: John Adams. Singer: Susan Graham. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • WARNER.

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  • Last Thursday19:00
    BBC Radio 3

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