Classical music for focus or relaxation
Episode m001jcqw, broadcast at Tuesday 28th February 2023, 7:00pm.
“Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites mixed with jazz and music from around the world, including a haunting theme from the gaming score for Fantasian, stirring organ music by J.S. Bach, and concertos by Vivaldi and Prokofiev. Also in the mix is a yearning ballad sung by Julie London and some whirling dances by Malcolm Arnold and Rossini. Producer: Helen Garrison”
Track listing
- 0:00 – 4 English Dances, Set 2, Op.33 (no 2) (track 6, Malcolm Arnold: Dances: Philharmonia, Thomson)
- Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra
- Conductor Bryden Thomson
- Composer Malcolm Arnold
- 1:34 – La danza (Soirées musicales) (track 6, Roberto Alagna: My Life is an Opera)
- Composer Gioachino Rossini
- Singer Roberto Alagna
- Conductor Yvan Cassar
- Orchestra London Orchestra
- 4:48 – Music from FANTASIAN (Original Game Score); Owen's Theme (track 5, Nobuo Uematsu × Hironobu Sakaguchi Works ~ Music from FANTASIAN (Original Game S)
- Performer Nobuo Uematsu
- 7:14 – Souvenir de Florence, Op 70 (3rd mvt)
- Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Orchestra Chamber Orchestra of Europe
- Conductor Gérard Korsten
- 13:58 – En la macarenita
- Music Arranger Nigel Short
- Composer Anon.
- Choir Tenebrae
- 16:52 – Violin Concerto in G minor, RV 325 (2nd mvt) (track 19, 111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon)
- Composer Antonio Vivaldi
- Performer Giuliano Carmignola
- Conductor Andrea Marcon
- Orchestra Venice Baroque Orchestra
- 18:46 – Fantasia in G Minor BWV 542 (track 1, Bach: Organ Works, Vol. 3)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer David Goode
- 24:18 – Cry Me a River (track 15, This Is Julie, Vol. 1)
- Performer Julie London
- 27:09 – Scherzo (Vivace) - 2nd movement from Piano concerto no.2 in G minor, Op.16 (track 6, Prokofiev - Piano Concertos Nos 1-5)
- Orchestra BBC Philharmonic
- Performer Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
- Composer Sergei Prokofiev
- Conductor Gianandrea Noseda