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30 minutes of music celebrating Euro 2025

Take 30 minutes out and settle down to a specially curated mix of music, honouring the historic victory of the England Women's football team in Euro 2025.

Whilst football fans around the country continue to celebrate the Lionesses' historic victory over Spain in the Euro 2025 final, today's Classical Mixtape honours their achievement with a half hour sequence of back-to-back music associated with, or inspired by the beautiful game.

The mix opens with the broadcast premiere of English composer Shirley Thompson's "Momentum: Concerto for football and orchestra", written for the 2022 women's Euros, which the Lionesses also won. Other works include the seminal recording of Pavarotti singing Puccini's "Nessun Dorma" and Faur茅's "Pavane", both famously used in past 蜜芽传媒 TV coverage of the men's FIFA World Cup, and a number from the stage musical of "Bend it like Beckham" by Howard Goodall. Football loving composer Shostakovich's piano miniature "Football" sits alongside Michael Nyman's aptly named "After Extra Time" from "Final Score", and Poulenc's Laudamus Te from his setting of the Gloria is said to have been inspired by seeing a group of monks playing a match. The mixtape ends with an orchestral arrangement of Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline", which has become the fans鈥� favourite anthem for the England women鈥檚 football team.

Listen out for the samba "Mas que nada", usually associated with football in Brazil, but somehow capturing the mood and the moves when break out star Michelle Agyemang danced her way up to the podium to receive the award for Euro 2025's young player of the tournament.

Producer: Helen Garrison

29 minutes

Last on

Mon 28 Jul 2025 19:00
蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Shirley Thompson

    Momentum: Concerto for Football and Orchestra

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Shirley Thompson.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Nessun dorma (Turandot)

    Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Choir: The John Alldis Choir. Choir: Wandsworth School Boys鈥� Choir. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • DECCA.

  • Jorge Ben Jor

    Mas que nada

    Performer: S茅rgio Mendes. Performer: Jos茅 Soares. Performer: Jo茫o Palma. Singer: Lani Hall. Singer: Bob Matthew.
    • A&M Records.

  • Michael Nyman

    The Final Score IX (final section); After Extra Time

    Ensemble: Michael Nyman Band.
    • After Extra Time.
    • Venture.
    • 025.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Pavane, Op 50

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Tortelier.
    • French Impressions: Paul Tortelier, Jean-Bernard Pommier.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 2.

  • Howard Goodall

    Bend it like Beckham: Glorious

    Lyricist: Charles Hart. Ensemble: Original London Bend it Like Beckham Cast. Conductor: Howard Goodall.
    • Bend it Like Beckham (Original Cast Album).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Football (Russian River Suite, Op 66)

    Performer: Rustem Hayroudinoff.
    • Chandos.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Laudamus Te (from Gloria)

    Choir: Polyphony. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Singer: Susan Gritton. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Poulenc: Gloria & Motets.
    • Hyperion.

  • Neil Diamond

    Sweet Caroline

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • A Symphonic Tribute to Neil Diamond.
    • Nifty Music, Inc..
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Mon 28 Jul 2025 19:00
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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