Music for concentration
Episode m0002ztq, broadcast at Tuesday 5th March 2019, 7:00pm.
“Join us on this relaxing journey created to help you concentrate. Begin this voyage with October and immerse yourself in Walton’s violin concerto. Cross through to Rhapsody in Blue and absorb musical moments from Berlioz, Liszt and Khachaturian. And when the long day closes bask in Summertime, and dream of your misspent youth.”
Track listing
- 2:10 – Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus) (track 3, Tchaikovsky 1812 - Borodin - Glinka - And More - Kirov Orchestra - Gergiev)
- Conductor Valery Gergiev
- Composer Aram Khachaturian
- Orchestra Mariinsky Orchestra
- 5:32 – La campanella (Grande études de Paganini)
- Composer Franz Liszt
- Performer Valentina Lisitsa
- 7:02 – Liebesträume in A flat major S.541 no.3 (track 15, Le rossignol en amour)
- Composer Franz Liszt
- Music Arranger Agnès Clément
- 10:03 – Blame it on my youth (track 4, The Gershwin Moment)
- Performer Kirill Gerstein
- Performer Gary Burton
- Composer Oscar Levant
- 12:54 – Lux aurumque
- Conductor Eric Whitacre
- Choir Eric Whitacre Singers
- 15:25 – The long day closes (track 19, Romance Du Soir)
- Conductor Nigel Short
- Composer Arthur Sullivan
- Choir Tenebrae
- Music Arranger Philip Lawson
- 19:33 – Rhapsody in Blue
- Orchestra Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
- Composer George Gershwin
- Performer Benjamin Grosvenor
- Conductor James Judd
- 21:56 – Violin Concerto (1st mvt)
- Composer William Walton
- Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Edward Gardner
- Performer Tasmin Little
- 22:54 – Summertime (Porgy and Bess)
- Composer George Gershwin
- Performer Louis Armstrong
- Singer Ella Fitzgerald