Take 30 minutes out with a relaxing classical mix
Episode m0025cfq, broadcast at Tuesday 2nd December 2025, 7:00pm, Sunday 8th December 2024, 5:30pm, and Thursday 5th December 2024, 7:00pm.
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Track listing
- 0:00 – Symphony No 6 in D major (2nd mvt) (track 3, George Lloyd: Overture, 'John Socman' Sixth Symphony; Tenth Symphony (November J)
- Orchestra BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor George Lloyd
- 1:00 – La cathédrale engloutie (Preludes, Book 1) (track 10, Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.1: Bavouzet)
- Composer Claude Debussy
- Performer Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
- 6:10 – The Lamb (track 17, A Choral Tapestry)
- Composer John Tavener
- Choir Voces 8
- 6:58 – Symphony in C Major: 2nd mvt (track 202, Martines: Symphony in C Major, Psalms 110 & 151)
- Ensemble Salzburger Hofmusik
- Conductor Wolfgang Brunner
- Composer Marianna Martines
- 10:00 – Concerto Grosso in C major, Op 9 No 5 (3rd mvt) (track 19, The Avison Ensemble: Avison: Concerti Grossi, op. 9 & op. 10)
- Performer Pavlo Beznosiuk
- Ensemble Avison Ensemble
- Composer Charles Avison
- 10:20 – Movement, Before All Flowers
- Performer Max Richter
- Performer Max Baillie
- Performer Eloisa‐Fleur Thom
- Performer Max Ruisi
- Performer Zara Hudson‐Kozdoj
- Performer Connie Pharoah
- 11:12 – Filiae maestae Jerusalem, RV 638: II. Sileant Zephyri (track 115, Pietà - Sacred works)
- Composer Antonio Vivaldi
- Singer Philippe Jaroussky
- Ensemble Ensemble Artaserse
- 14:35 – Piano Concerto No.1; 2. Andante
- Performer Sir Stephen Hough
- Conductor Andrew Litton
- Composer Sergey Rachmaninov
- Orchestra Dallas Symphony Orchestra
- 17:36 – D'un vieux jardin (track 5, Licht in der Nacht)
- Composer Lili Boulanger
- Performer Kunal Lahiry
- 20:15 – Song of the Birds
- Composer Pau Casals
- Performer Harriet Krijgh
- Orchestra Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic
- Conductor Gustavo Gimeno
- 21:07 – The Last Spring (2 Elegiac melodies Op.34)
- Composer Edvard Grieg
- Conductor Iona Brown
- Orchestra Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
- 24:02 – French Suite No 5 in G major, BWV 816 (Loure) (track 27, J.S. Bach, The French Suites: Angela Hewitt)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Angela Hewitt
- 26:10 – Upon Your Heart (track 13, All Things Are Quite Silent)
- Conductor Anna Lapwood
- Choir Pembroke College Girls' Choir
- Composer Eleanor Daley
- Choir Pembroke College Chapel Choir
- 26:38 – There is no Rose (A Ceremony of Carols)
- Composer Benjamin Britten
- Conductor Sir David Willcocks
- Choir Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
- Performer Osian Ellis