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The perfect classical half hour

An engaging mix of classical music for half an hour, featuring chamber music by Henri Bertini and Giovanni Gabrieli, as well as an ode to love from Dowland鈥檚 First Booke of Songes or Ayres, plus the sublime voices of Anne Sofie von Otter and Stephanie D'Oustrac in a perennial favourite by Offenbach

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Music Played

  • Henri Bertini

    Nonetto in D Major, Op. 107: III. Scherzo. Prestissimo risoluto

    Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.
    • Bertini: Nonetto in D Major, Op. 107 & Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 43 "Grand".
    • CPO.
    • 103.

  • John Dowland

    Come again, sweet love doth now invite

    Performer: David Mayoral. Music Arranger: Rainer Seiferth. Ensemble: Tracea.
    • ALPHA.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Barcarolle (The Tales of Hoffmann)

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Singer: St茅phanie d'Oustrac. Choir: Ch艙ur des Musiciens du Louvre. Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Anne Sofie von Otter sings Offenbach.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzone a tre cori

    Music Arranger: Bruno Maderna. Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies.
    • ECM.

  • Alexandre Desplat

    The Silence of love (from The Shape of Water)

    Conductor: Alexandre Desplat.
    • Decca.

  • Amy Beach

    A Hermit Thrush at Eve, Op. 92 No. 1

    Performer: Finghin Collins.
    • The bright day is done.
    • Claves Records.
    • 6.

  • King Henry VIII of England

    If Love Now Reynyd

    Choir: Taverner Choir. Ensemble: Taverner Players. Conductor: Andrew Parrott.
    • AVIE: AV2352.
    • Avie.
    • 6.

  • George Gershwin

    The man I love (The George Gershwin Songbook for piano)

    Performer: Richard Rodney Bennett.
    • Gershwin/Kern etc: That certain feeling: Richard Rodney Bennett.
    • CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.

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  • Last Friday 19:00
    91热爆 Radio 3

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