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

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites mixed with jazz, folk and music from around the world.

Classical Mixtape: Classical music to lift the spirits

Classical music to lift the spirits

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Mixtape, Classical music to lift the spirits

Today's mixtape in our positive mental health week is about that fundamental human journey we all take at various times in our lives: discovery. Poulenc's jolly, mythical Embarkment for Cythera kick-starts our half hour, morphing into music by the Abbess Hildegard of Bingen, beautifully updated and reaching back and forth between the millenia: music that has inspired explorers of new age ideas as well as the feminist movement. John Cage's In a Landscape next: the American composer's piano essay meanders in a still wilderness of searching beauty. Borodin next and then Mozart, a composer who retained his childish fascination for discovery. Then comes Berlioz's Harold in Italy, the viola doubling as Harold, our hero wandering in the Abruzzi pennines; the healing power of nature is writ large in this piece. Staying in a world of enchantment, our 'discovery' journey ends with Ravel's masterpiece Fairy Garden, ending on a note of incomparable beauty and love.

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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