Classical music for focus or relaxation
Episode m0021bpj, broadcast at Wednesday 31st July 2024, 7:00pm.
“Today's Classical Mixtape is in two halves. In the first half, there is music by Susan Spain-Dunk, Leokadiya Kashperova, Joseph Bologne, Giovanni Gabrieli and Peter Warlock. The second half opens with a Beethoven quartet, followed by Leroy Anderson's The Typewriter, and it ends with a sonatina by Carl Czerny.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Two Scottish Pieces for orchestra Op 54
- Orchestra BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- Composer Susan Spain-Dunk
- Conductor Stephen Bell
- 3:26 – The Murmur of the Wheat (Au sein de la nature)
- Composer Leokadiya Kashperova
- Performer Mengjie Han
- 6:21 – Concertante Quartet in C major, Op 15 No 3: second movement (Rondeau)
- Composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
- Ensemble Levare String Quartet
- 10:48 – Canzon IV à 6 (Symphoniae sacrae, 1615)
- Composer Giovanni Gabrieli
- Ensemble Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
- Director Philip Jones
- 13:57 – The Bayly Berith the Bell Away (track 7, Benjamin Luxon Sings Warlock Songs)
- Composer Peter Warlock
- Singer Benjamin Luxon
- Performer David Willison
- 16:25 – Quartet in G major Op.18`2 for strings: 2nd movement; Adagio cantabile (track 10, Beethoven: String Quartets, Op. 18)
- Composer Ludwig van Beethoven
- Ensemble Jerusalem Quartet
- 22:25 – The Typewriter (track 16, Leroy Anderson - Orchestral Works Volume 3)
- Conductor Leonard Slatkin
- Composer Leroy Anderson
- Orchestra BBC Concert Orchestra
- Performer Alasdair Malloy
- 24:00 – Sonatina for Piano Trio in G Major (1st mvt) (track 3, Czerny: Piano Trios)
- Composer Carl Czerny
- Performer Sun-Young Shin
- Performer Benjamin Hayek
- Performer Samuel Gingher