Classical music for focus or relaxation
Episode m0015l5h, broadcast at Monday 28th March 2022, 7:00pm.
“Tonight, we begin with Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum from Debussy’s Children Corner, Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March No 2 raises the spirits as Karine Polwart bids farewell to winter and asks us to Follow the Heron. Beethoven’s heartfelt Cavatina from his Op 130 String Quartet offers a moment of reflection before spring lambs gambol with a movement from Schubert’s Octet. Papageno entertains with his magic bells as he pleads for a wife, before Shostakovich returns us to the piano and brings our journey for this evening to an end.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (Children's Corner) (track 11, Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.3: Bavouzet)
- Composer Claude Debussy
- Performer Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
- 1:54 – Pomp and Circumstance March No 2 in A minor, Op 39 (track , Elgar: Enigma variations/Pomp and circumstance marches: Boult)
- Composer Edward Elgar
- Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor Adrian Boult
- 4:44 – Follow the Heron
- Performer Mattie Foulds
- Composer Karine Polwart
- Performer Kevin McGuire
- Performer Inge Thomson
- 7:50 – String Quartet in B flat major, Op.130 (5th mvt)
- Ensemble Danish String Quartet
- Composer Ludwig van Beethoven
- 15:35 – Octet in F major, D 803 (3rd mvt) (track 3, Schubert: Octet)
- Composer Franz Schubert
- Ensemble Berlin Philharmonic Octet
- 21:36 – Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen (The Magic Flute) (track 9, Simon Keenlyside: Tales of Opera)
- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Singer Simon Keenlyside
- Orchestra Munich Radio Orchestra
- Conductor Ulf Schirmer
- 25:48 – Prelude and fugue for piano no. 5 (Op.87`5) in D major (track 9, Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87: Tatiana Nicolayeva)
- Composer Dmitry Shostakovich
- Performer Tatiana Nikolayeva