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

Classical Mixtape: Innocence and Experience

Innocence and Experience

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Mixtape, Innocence and Experience

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

Music of innocence and experience, inspired by the poems of William Blake. With music by Liszt, Michael Price, Bernard Herrmann, Purcell, Tavener, Verdi, Shostakovich and Pärt.

A Mixtape inspired by the theme of innocence and experience from William Blake's collection of poems of the same name. We begin with a demonic Mephisto Waltz and end with the peaceful innocence of Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel. Two of the works feature words by Blake himself - Speke, from an album by Michael Price called Tender Symmetry, and The Lamb in a gorgeous setting by Sir John Tavener. There's music from Bernard Herrmann's classic score for Taxi Driver.  We hear part of Purcell's incidental music for Distressed Innocence (or the Princess of Persia), Verdi's song La seduzione, and a short extract from Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth.

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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