Music to focus to
Episode m0005nmb, broadcast at Tuesday 4th June 2019, 7:00pm.
“Find your focus with the chordal control of a Sarabande by JS Bach, the emerging text of Anna Meredith's Heal You, and the rocketing runs of the finale of Mozart's Symphony No 29. To open, the resplendent maximalism of 'continuous composition' pioneer Ludomyr Melnyk, and the carefully flat-footed polka from Shostakovich's early ballet The Age of Gold. And there's the foaming concentration of the Scherzo from Dvorak's Piano Quintet alongside the sighing 3rd of John Dowland's set of Tears, Lachrimae gementes.”
Track listing
- 0:10 – Fallen Trees: Preamable (track 4, Fallen Trees)
- Performer Lubomyr Melnyk
- 4:38 – Partita No 2 in D minor for violin, BWV 1004 (Sarabande) (track 3, J.S. Bach: Sonatas & Partitas. Isabelle Faust)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Isabelle Faust
- 8:59 – The Age of Gold, Act II: Polka
- Composer Dmitry Shostakovich
- Orchestra Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky
- 11:05 – Heal You
- Composer Anna Meredith
- Ensemble Juice Vocal Ensemble
- 14:45 – Piano Quintet in A major (3rd mvt, Scherzo)
- Composer Antonín Dvořák
- Ensemble Quatuor Ébène
- Performer Menahem Pressler
- 19:12 – Lachrimae gementes (track 5, John Dowland - Lachrimae or Seaven Teares 1604)
- Director Jordi Savall
- Ensemble Hespèrion XXI
- Composer John Dowland
- 23:36 – Symphony No 29 in A major, K 201 (4th mvt)
- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Orchestra London Mozart Players
- Conductor Jane Glover