Katie Derham's handpicked classical mix for your mind
Episode m000vzbk, broadcast at Friday 14th May 2021, 7:00pm.
“Music for your Mind: handpicked classical recommendations to help soothe your soul. In a week of specially curated episodes of In Tune Mixtapes for Mental Health Awareness Week, five of Radio 3’s best-known presenters share the music they’ve turned to in times of trouble. Today, Katie Derham treats us to songs of melancholy from Brazil and the Auvergne, songs of innocence from William Blake, a rip-roaring curtain-raiser from Leonard Bernstein and a flight of swans disappearing into the solar haze like a silver ribbon from Sibelius.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Aria (Bachiana brasileira No 5) (track 5, Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras: Michael Tilson Thomas)
- Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
- Composer Heitor Villa‐Lobos
- Singer Renée Fleming
- Orchestra New World Symphony
- 6:34 – Somewhere (West Side Story) (track 020, Gershwin Bernstein)
- Music Arranger Eric Crees
- Composer Leonard Bernstein
- Ensemble hr brass
- Conductor Jiggs Whigham
- 10:30 – The Lamb
- Choir The Sixteen
- Director Harry Christophers
- Composer John Tavener
- 14:01 – Candide (Overture) (track 1, Leonard Bernstein: A Portrait)
- Conductor Leonard Bernstein
- Orchestra New York Philharmonic
- 18:10 – Baïlèro (Chants d'Auvergne, Set 1) (track 2, Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne: Kiri Te Kanawa)
- Singer Kiri Te Kanawa
- Orchestra English Chamber Orchestra
- Composer Joseph Canteloube
- Conductor Jeffrey Tate
- 24:49 – Symphony no. 5 (Op.82) in E flat major, 3rd movement; Allegro molto (track 7, Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7)
- Composer Jean Sibelius
- Performer Paavo Järvi
- Performer Orchestre de Paris