Classical music for focus and inspiration
Episode b09h3s53, broadcast at Monday 11th May 2020, 7:00pm, and Wednesday 6th December 2017, 7:00pm.
“A specially selected playlist of music including Schoenberg, Bruckner and Bach, plus movements from Ligeti's Musica Ricercata.”
Track listing
- 1:09 – Little Prelude in E minor, BWV 938 (track 6, J.S. Bach, The French Suites: Angela Hewitt)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Angela Hewitt
- 2:48 – Intermezzo in D minor for string quintet (track 6, Bruckner: String Quintet, STrauss: Capriccio Sextet - The Raphael Ensemble)
- Composer Anton Bruckner
- Ensemble Raphael Ensemble
- 6:47 – Alma Llanera
- Performer John Williams
- Composer Pedro Elías Gutiérrez
- Performer Alfonso Montes
- 10:21 – Weihnachtsmusik for 2 violins, cello, harmonium and piano (track 14, Christmas Carols: Taverner Consort, Choir and Players/Andrew Parrott)
- Conductor Andrew Parrott
- Composer Arnold Schoenberg
- Ensemble Taverner Consort
- 15:20 – Tenebrae factae sunt
- Choir The Hilliard Ensemble
- Composer Carlo Gesualdo
- 19:55 – Schön Rosmarin (Old Viennese Dances) (track 4, Virtuoso Vengerov)
- Composer Fritz Kreisler
- Performer Itamar Golan
- Performer Maxim Vengerov
- 21:55 – Symphony No 4 in A major, Op 90, 'Italian' (3rd mvt) (track 14, Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream (excerpts) etc: Berliner Philharmoniker/Abb)
- Composer Felix Mendelssohn
- Conductor Claudio Abbado
- Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic
- 28:16 – Musica Ricercata (1st mvt)
- Performer Pierre‐Laurent Aimard
- Composer György Ligeti