Music for focus
Episode m00061kg, broadcast at Tuesday 18th June 2019, 7:00pm.
“Ranging across the centuries music handpicked to help you focus over half an hour uninterrupted by anyone. From Bach, Haydn and Mozart to Kurt Weill, Percy Grainger, John Adams and Jonathan Dove.”
Track listing
- 0:11 – Symphony no.88 in G major (4th mvt)
- Composer Joseph Haydn
- Orchestra Vienna Philharmonic
- Conductor Leonard Bernstein
- 3:36 – Handel in the Strand
- Composer Percy Grainger
- Performer Marc-André Hamelin
- 6:20 – Heavenly Salvation (The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny) (track 8, September Songs)
- Composer Kurt Weill
- Ensemble The Persuasions
- 9:55 – Una Limosna por el amor de Dios (track 20, Milos Karadaglic: Latino)
- Performer Miloš Karadaglić
- Composer Agustín Barrios Mangoré
- 13:08 – Songs my mother taught me, Op 55 No 4 (track 7, Alisa Weilerstein Dvorak)
- Composer Antonín Dvořák
- Performer Alisa Weilerstein
- Performer Anna Polonsky
- Music Arranger Heinrich Grünfeld
- 15:19 – A Downland Suite - III. Minuet, allegretto grazioso [arr. for strings by Ireland]
- Composer John Ireland
- Orchestra Orchestra of the Swan
- Conductor David Curtis
- 20:08 – Violin Concerto No 3 in G major, K 216 (track 1, Mozart: Violin Concertos: Viktoria Mullova)
- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Orchestra Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
- Director Viktoria Mullova
- 23:46 – From all the jails (There was a Child) (track 4, Dove: There Was A Child: CBSO, Spence, Rodgers, Halsey)
- Orchestra City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Composer Jonathan Dove
- Choir CBSO Chorus
- Singer Toby Spence
- Singer Joan Rodgers
- Conductor Simon Halsey
- Choir City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus
- Choir City of Birmingham Symphony Children's Chorus
- 26:16 – Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV.881 (Book 2, The Well-Tempered Clavier) (track 17, Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Angela Hewitt)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Angela Hewitt