In Tune Mixtape

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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

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Classical Mixtape

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Music: Classical

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music.

Classical Mixtape: New Beginnings

Shostakovich, Victoria, Mozart

New Beginnings

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Mixtape, New Beginnings

In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.

Half an hour of uninterrupted music themed around new beginnings. From daybreak to spring, from newly weds to breaking up and moving on, the music celebrates all things new.

From Edgar Bainton’s And I Saw a New Heaven to Grieg’s depiction of spring and Evelyn Glennie’s journey Crossing the Bridge,, the music is inspired by all aspects of starting anew. There is optimism at the start of Ravel’s new day and sadness in the newly wedded life of Gilbert and Sullivan’s heroine Elsie in Yeomen of the Guard. The journey begins at the bottom of the Rhine, the very start of Wagner's Ring Cycle, rising up from its watery source through the lower registers of the orchestra, and ends with Anna Jane Casey, washing that man out of her hair and starting afresh, in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific.

Producer: Helen Garrison


Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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