Classical music for focus and inspiration
Episode m000hhpm, broadcast at Friday 24th April 2020, 7:00pm.
“Tonight's mixtape springs off with Boccherini's sparkling music for guitar and string quartet, and takes in flute music from Bach and Talvin Singh, a soothing Nocturne from Chopin, and reflections on life from Orlando Gibbons and Gerald Finzi and from a Northumbrian mining song.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Guitar Quintet in D major G.448 (1st mvt) (track 8, Fandango! Music for Solo Guitar and String Quartet)
- Composer Luigi Boccherini
- Performer Johan Löfving
- Ensemble Consone Quartet
- 4:54 – Harp Sonata: III. Perpetuum mobile (track 303, Scarlatti, Baltin & Others: Harp Works)
- Composer Germaine Tailleferre
- Performer Cristina Bianchi
- 7:40 – Heaven (track 03, Vira)
- Performer Rakesh Chaurasia
- Performer Talvin Singh
- 13:04 – Flute Sonata in E major, BWV 1035 (1st mvt) (track 15, Bach: Flute Sonatas: Andrea Oliva/Angela Hewitt)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Angela Hewitt
- Performer Andrea Oliva
- 15:35 – Nocturne in E minor, Op 72 No 1 (track 4, Chopin, Liszt, Ravel: Benjamin Grosvenor)
- Composer Frédéric Chopin
- Performer Benjamin Grosvenor
- 19:33 – Farewell to Arms, Op. 9: II. Aria: His golden locks (track 802, A Finzi Anthology)
- Orchestra Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Composer Gerald Finzi
- Conductor David Hill
- 24:21 – The Silver Swan (track 12, English and Italian Renaissance Madrigals)
- Choir The Hilliard Ensemble
- Composer Orlando Gibbons
- 26:05 – Old Miner (track 07, Still Gannin' Canny)
- Composer Trad.
- Performer Bob Morton
- Performer Bob Diehl
- Performer Gerry Murphy
- Performer Grace Smith