Classical music for focus or relaxation
Episode m0019knz, broadcast at Monday 1st August 2022, 7:00pm.
“Today's mix includes music by Brahms, Chopin, Grieg and Holst, plus polyphony from Heinrich Isaac and something enchanting from Thea Musgrave.”
Track listing
- 0:25 – Hungarian Dance No 7 in A major (track 7, The Hungarian Dances)
- Composer Johannes Brahms
- Ensemble Katia Labèque
- 1:59 – Song of the Enchanter
- Orchestra BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Jac van Steen
- Composer Thea Musgrave
- 6:01 – Virgo prudentissima (track 11, FROM THE IMPERIAL COURT: MUSIC FOR THE HOUSE OF HAPSBURG / STILE ANTICO)
- Choir Stile Antico
- Composer Heinrich Isaac
- 11:42 – String Quartet no.1 in A minor, Op.7 (3rd mvt)
- Composer Eugen d’Albert
- Ensemble Sarastro Quartett
- 18:30 – Sleep (5 Elizabethan Songs)
- Composer Ivor Gurney
- Conductor Nicholas Collon
- Orchestra Aurora Orchestra
- Music Arranger Iain Farrington
- Singer Allan Clayton
- 21:24 – Waltz in D flat major, Op 64 No 1, 'Minute' (track 1, The Chopin Experience)
- Composer Frédéric Chopin
- Performer Maria João Pires
- 23:25 – Fantasia on the Dargason (Suite in F major for military band, Op 28 No 2)
- Composer Gustav Holst
- Conductor Frederick Fennell
- Ensemble Cleveland Symphonic Winds
- 26:21 – Holberg Suite, Op 40 (Praeludium) (track 1, Grieg: Holberg Suite/Tchaikovsky: String Serenade: Orheus Chamber Orchestra)
- Orchestra Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
- Composer Edvard Grieg