
Linton Stephens with an inspiring musical mix
Linton Stephens chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, whether you're enjoying the summer weather or relaxing indoors.
Linton Stephens sits in for Sarah Walker and chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.
His choices include a dramatic musical picture of the Sussex countryside by Avril Coleridge-Taylor, a piece by Brighton-based composer Poppy Ackroyd that reveals some beautiful and surprising aspects of the clarinet, and joyful sounds from Fiona Monbet’s jazzy violin.
Plus perennial favourites by Villa-Lobos, Handel, Ravel and the Mendelssohn siblings.
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Heitor Villa‐Lobos
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 (I. Aria, 'Cantilena')
Performer: Plínio Fernandes. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason.- DECCA.
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Leonard Bernstein
Candide (Overture)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.- LSO Live.
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Mel Bonis
Sonata Op. 64 (I. Andantino con moto; II. Scherzo)
Performer: Hélène Couvert. Performer: Juliette Hurel.- ALPHA.
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Trad.
The Water of Tyne
Composer: Elizabeth Poston. Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Ensemble: Pembroke College Girls' Choir.- SIGNUM.
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Carl Nielsen
Wind Quintet, Op. 43 (II. Menuet)
Ensemble: New London Chamber Ensemble.- MERIDIAN.
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Francesca Caccini
Ciaccona
Performer: Luigi Cozzolino. Ensemble: Cappella di Santa Maria degli Angiolini. Director: Gian Luca Lastraioli.- Maria, dolce Maria.
- Brilliant Classics.
- 3.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 1 in D, 'Titan' (II. Kräftig bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
Notturno in G minor
Performer: Heather Schmidt.- NAXOS.
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Poppy Ackroyd
The Calm Before
Performer: Poppy Ackroyd. Performer: Mike Lesirge.- ONE LITTLE INDEPENDENT.
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Edvard Grieg
Anitra's Dance (Peer Gynt)
Performer: Øystein Baadsvik. Orchestra: Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Bjorn Sagstad.- BIS.
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Georg Frideric Handel
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon, HWV 67, Act 3)
Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- PHILIPS.
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Dora Pejačević
Piano Concerto Op. 33 (I. Allegro moderato)
Performer: Peter Donohoe. Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.- CHANDOS.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Silent Noon
Performer: Claire Jones.- SILVA SCREEN CLASSICS.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Septet in E flat, Op. 20 (V. Scherzo. Allegro molto e vivace)
Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.- CAPRICCIO.
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Hannah Peel
The Universe Before Matter
Orchestra: Paraorchestra. Conductor: Charles Hazlewood.- The Unfolding.
- Real World.
- 1.
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Felix Mendelssohn
The Hebrides, 'Fingal's Cave'
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.- CHANDOS.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.- DECCA.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Zefiro torna e di soava accenti, SV251
Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Singer: Núria Rial. Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.- ERATO.
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Maurice Ravel
Bolero
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Árpád Joó.- ARTS.
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Orlande de Lassus
Alma Redemptoris Mater
Performer: Orlande de Lassus. Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.- Lassus Missa Osculetur Me.
- Gimell.
- 009.
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Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Sinfonia in D minor Fk 65
Orchestra: Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen.- BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
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Avril Coleridge-Taylor
Sussex Landscape, Op. 27 (I. Largo)
Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Roderick Cox.- DECCA.
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Julius Eastman
Stay On It
Ensemble: Wild Up. Director: Christopher Rountree.- NEW AMSTERDAM.
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Lili Boulanger
D'un vieux jardin (Trois morceaux pour piano, No. 1)
Performer: Antonio Oyarzabal.- IBS CLASSICAL.
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Orlando Gibbons
Fantasia a 6 MB 48 No.33
Ensemble: Fretwork.- Music for viols.
- VIRGO.
- 012.
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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Ruslan & Ludmilla (Overture)
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leo Smit.- Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga.
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Fiona Monbet
Joy Song
Performer: Fiona Monbet. Performer: Auxane Cartigny.- FO FEO PRODUCTIONS.
Broadcast
- Sun 2 Jul 2023 09:00ѿý Radio 3