Classical music for focus or relaxation
Episode m0025dml, broadcast at Friday 6th December 2024, 7:00pm.
“Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites, including music by Beethoven, Elgar, York Bowen, Joanna Forbes l'Estrange and Mozart. Produced by Ella Lee To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Mixtape””
Track listing
- 0:00 – Quintet in E flat major Op.16 (3rd mvt) (track 117, Les Vents Français - Winds & Piano)
- Composer Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer Eric Le Sage
- Ensemble Les Vents Français
- 5:30 – Impromptu
- Composer Reinhold Moritzevich Glière
- Performer Lavinia Meijer
- 9:24 – 15 Three-part Inventions, BWV 787/801 - No. 5 in E flat, BWV 791 (track , J.S. Bach: 2 and 3 Part Inventions)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Sir András Schiff
- 11:32 – Nimrod (Enigma Variations, Op. 36)
- Composer Edward Elgar
- Conductor Daniel Barenboim
- Orchestra West–Eastern Divan Orchestra
- 15:15 – 24 Preludes, Op. 102: No. 2 in C Minor (track 2, York Bowen Piano Music: Preludes; Sonata No. 5; Romances etc.)
- Performer Stephen Hough
- Composer York Bowen
- 17:01 – A Fancy (track 1, Jacobean Lute Music)
- Performer Jakob Lindberg
- Composer John Dowland
- 20:07 – Song of the Shepherds (track 110, Winter Light)
- Choir London Voices
- Conductor Ben Parry
- Composer Joanna Forbes
- Performer Richard Gowers
- 22:41 – Piano Sonata No 10 in C major, K 330 (2nd mvt) (track 5, Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas: Mitsuko Uchida)
- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Performer Mitsuko Uchida