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.

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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: Half an hour of the finest classical music

Half an hour of the finest classical music

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Mixtape, Half an hour of the finest classical music

In Tune’s specially curated playlist, ranging from liturgical pomp to fireside romance.

Half an hour of uninterrupted music featuring Bruckner's choral music, cello dreams from Amy Beach, a Dowland dance, Ravel's Spanish whirling fairground and the voice of Al Bowlly

Half an hour of uninterrupted music featuring an eclectic mix of styles and moods, opening with a hefty slab of liturgical pomp from Bruckner in his anthem "Ecce sacerdos", written to welcome a bishop into his cathedral.  Amy Beach's languid "Dreaming" leads into a world of dance, ranging from Medieval stomps, via the Elizabethan court to the rhapsodic Spanish whirling of the fairground as depicted by Ravel.  Malcolm Arnold's whimsical "Little Suite" calms things down, and a Handelian concerto steals some well known tunes from his own more famous seasonal oratorio, until it's time to settle down in front of the fire for a romantic evening with the peerless crooning of Al Bowlly.

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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Half an hour of the finest classical music

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