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Half an hour of calming classical music

Half an hour of back to back calming classical music including works by Borodin, Mel Bonis, Handel and Frank Martin.

Take time out to relax for half an hour with some calming classical music. Today's mix begins with a gentle serenade by Borodin, an entrancing depiction of the evening by Mel Bonis, and a mysterious slow waltz by Debussy. The incomparable Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau treats us to an interpretation of a well-known Schubert song, and there's a reflective adagio from Weber's 2nd piano concerto. The sequence ends with one of Handel's most poignantly beautiful vocal duets, and we're taken to a higher plane by the Agnus Dei from Frank Martin's Mass for double choir.

Producer: Helen Garrison

30 minutes

Last on

Wed 29 Oct 2025 19:00
麻豆社 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Alexander Borodin

    Serenade (Petite Suite)

    Orchestrator: Alexander Glazunov. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Borodin: Requiem, Polovtsian Dances, In the Steppes of Central Asia, Nocturne, P.
    • Cala Records.
    • 13.

  • Mel Bonis

    Soir, Matin, Op. 76: I. Andante cantabile

    Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger. Performer: David Geringas. Performer: Barbara Moser.
    • It鈥檚 a Girl!.
    • Gramola Records.
    • 201.

  • Claude Debussy

    La plus que lente

    Orchestra: 贬补濒濒茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • 贬补濒濒茅.

  • Franz Schubert

    St盲ndchen (Schwanengesang, D 957)

    Performer: Gerald Moore. Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau.
    • DG.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Piano Concerto No 2 in E flat major, Op 32 (2nd mvt, Adagio)

    Performer: Benjamin Frith. Orchestra: RT脡 Sinfonietta. Conductor: Proinns铆as 脫 Duinn.
    • Weber: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Polacca Brillante.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • George Frideric Handel

    De torrente in via bibet (Dixit Dominus HWV.232)

    Singer: Arleen Aug茅r. Singer: Lynne Dawson. Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Orchestra: Orchestra of Westminster Abbey. Conductor: Simon Preston.
    • Handel: Dixit Dominus.
    • DG Archiv.

  • Frank Martin

    Mass for Double Choir: Agnus Dei

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • The Music of King's: Choral Favourites from Cambridge.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 14.

Broadcast

  • Wed 29 Oct 2025 19:00
    麻豆社 Radio 3

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