Classical music for focus or relaxation
Episode m00270hj, broadcast at Sunday 9th February 2025, 5:30pm, and Friday 24th January 2025, 7:00pm.
“Half and hour of back to back classical music into which you can sink and relax. Today's mix includes a sequence of dreamy sonorities by Holst, Grieg, Ravel and Elgar, alongside a lyrical symphonic poem about Africa by William Grant Still, and a transcendent choral work by Nainita Desai, sung with shimmering purity by Voces8. Producer: Helen Garrison”
Track listing
- 0:18 – Hymn to the Dawn (Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Op.26'3)
- Composer Gustav Holst
- Performer Catrin Finch
- Music Arranger Julian Lloyd Webber
- Performer Jiaxin Lloyd Webber
- Performer Guy Johnston
- Performer Laura van der Heijden
- 4:00 – Land of romance (Africa) (track , William Grant Still: Afro-American Symphony/In Memoriam/Africa (Symphonic Poem))
- Composer William Grant Still
- Conductor John Jeter
- Orchestra Fort Smith Symphony
- 10:47 – Holberg Suite, Op 40
- Performer Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
- Composer Edvard Grieg
- Conductor Ole Kristian Ruud
- 16:31 – My Mind is Still (track 12, Infinity)
- Performer Thomas Gould
- Choir VOCES8
- Performer Elsa Bradley
- Music Arranger Geoff Lawson
- Composer Nainita Desai
- Performer Leif Kaner‐Lidström
- 21:54 – Valses nobles et sentimentales (No 2) (track 5, Yannick Nezet-Seguin Ravel Rotterdam Phiharmonic Orchestra)
- Composer Maurice Ravel
- Orchestra Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
- Performer Yannick Nézet‐Séguin
- 24:31 – Prelude in C minor, BWV 999 (keyboard version) (track 12, J.S. Bach, The French Suites: Angela Hewitt)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Angela Hewitt
- 25:50 – Dream Children, Op 43 (1st mvt) (track 2, Elgar : Orchestral Works)
- Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Andrew Davis
- Composer Edward Elgar