Music for a summer's evening

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Today's mixtape opens with Yevgeny Subin playing a haunting sonata by Domenico Scarlatti, followed by a truly sublime aria by Bach from one of his cantatas, as the singer (joined by a plangent oboe) contemplates his own mortality: "Es ist vollbracht" (It is accomplished). Waltzing along with a piano miniature by Tarresa Carreno, we reach one of the iconic pieces of twentieth century American music, used to great effect in several films including Platoon and The Elephant Man: Barber’s Adagio for strings. And this cinematic mood continues with a short excerpt from Mahler's epic Third Symphony - a particularly poignant moment featuring an offstage post horn solo. Finally, Mahler passes the baton to his fellow Austrian, Bruckner, for the celestial choral motet, Ave Maria. Producer: Dom Wells