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Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites, including Mozart, Chopin and Jóhann Jóhannsson.

Today's mixtape opens with a fragile Mozart piano concerto, leading into folk-inflected Annie Laurie by Lady John Douglas Scott. Anticipation builds with music from the film The Mercy by Jóhann Jóhannsson, before the mournful sounds of Dido's Lament, arranged for orchestra. This is followed by some lush symphonic Parry and two nocturnes: one by Humperdinck for string quartet and solo violin, and one by Chopin for piano to close.

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Music Played

  • Alicia Ann Spottiswoode

    Annie Laurie

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Performer: Edin Karamazov. Performer: Stacey Shames.
    • DECCA.

  • Jóhann Jóhannsson

    The Mercy (Into The Wide And Deep Unknown)

    Orchestra: Budapest Art Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Weeden.
    • The Mercy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • Henry Purcell

    When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas) arr. Stokowski

    Orchestrator: Leopold Stokowski. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Hubert Parry

    Symphony no.5 in B minor 'Symphonic fantasia' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Notturno in G, for violin and string quartet

    Performer: Lydia Dubrovskaya. Ensemble: Diogenes Quartett.
    • CPO.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in G minor, Op 15 No 3

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Chopin: The Complete Nocturnes and Impromptus: Angela Hewitt, piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.

  • Franz Schubert

    Variations on an original theme in A flat major for Piano 4 Hands, D.813

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • HYPERION.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Waltz 2 (Suite no.2 for Jazz Band)

    Music Arranger: Paul Campbell. Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Charles Mutter. Performer: Michael Gray. Performer: Timothy Welch. Performer: Ben Dawson. Performer: Benjamin Hughes. Performer: Andrew Wood.
    • RISE.
    • Decca.
    • 12.

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  • Today 21:05
    BBC Radio 3

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