Music for a summer's evening
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites, including music by Bach, Barber, Mahler and Bruckner.
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
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Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in A major Kk.208
Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.- Scarlatti: 18 Sonatas.
- BIS.
- 2.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
'Es ist vollbracht' from Cantata BWV 159 (Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem)
Singer: Peter Kooij. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.- BIS.
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Teresa Carreño
Mi Teresita [Little Waltz]
Performer: Gabriela Montero.- WARNER.
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Samuel Barber
Adagio for Strings
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.- Barber: Cello Concerto / Medea Suite / Adagio for Strings.
- Naxos.
- 11.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony no.3 in D Minor (Pt 2 3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor.
- BR-Klassik.
- 202.
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Anton Bruckner
Ave Maria
Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.- Bruckner: Mass in E minor/Motets: Polyphony/Britten Sinfonia/Layton.
- Hyperion.
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Broadcast
- Friday 19:00Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Radio 3
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