Classical music for focus or relaxation
Episode m0028tsc, broadcast at Sunday 6th April 2025, 5:30pm, and Monday 17th March 2025, 7:00pm.
“Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites, including music by Brahms, Fauré and William Grant Still.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Sonata no. 3 in D minor Op.108 for violin and piano: 2nd movement; Adagio (track 8, Brahms: Violin Concerto etc.)
- Composer Johannes Brahms
- Performer Piotr Anderszewski
- Performer Viktoria Mullova
- 4:02 – Sailing By
- Composer Ronald Binge
- Conductor Ronald Corp
- Orchestra The New London Orchestra
- 6:46 – Prelude in D major, Op.23 no.4 (track 5, Rachmaninov: 24 Preludes)
- Composer Sergey Rachmaninov
- Performer Nikolai Lugansky
- 11:37 – In Paradisum (Requiem, Op.48) (track 14, Mozart: Vespers and Faure: Requiem)
- Choir The Sixteen
- Conductor Harry Christophers
- Orchestra Academy of St Martin in the Fields
- Composer Gabriel Fauré
- 14:37 – Sarabande (from Suite in G major) (track 127, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: Judith & Sémélé)
- Composer Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
- Performer Marie van Rhijn
- 17:45 – Summerland (3 Visions) (track 2, Still: Orchestral Works)
- Orchestra Royal Scottish National Orchestra
- Composer William Grant Still
- Conductor Avlana Eisenberg
- Performer Zina Schiff
- 22:22 – Quintet in A major K.581 for clarinet and strings: 2nd movement; Larghetto
- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ensemble Lindsay String Quartet
- Performer Janet Hilton