Classical music for focus or relaxation
Episode m002cp27, broadcast at Monday 2nd June 2025, 7:00pm.
“Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music including a mass for peace by Karl Jenkins, a nocturne by Chopin, and a Romanze by Weiner. Tonight's classical mixtape opens with one of Dvorak's Cyprise for string quartet, an arrangement of his 12 songs from the Cyrpise song cycle. Bruckner brings us calm with one of his haunting graduals for choir, Os justi, gently drawing us in the fourth of Alice Mary Smith's 6 short pieces for piano. From there, Saint-Saens uplifts us with his Symphony in A major, before Jenkins prays for peace with the Benedictus from The Armed Man. Chopin reminds us of the time with his Nocturne in B major, before Leo Weiner shares his indulgent Romanze for cello, harp and string orchestra. Producer: Zara Siddiqi”
Track listing
- 0:51 – Cypresses B.152 (no.1) (track 7, Dvorak: American Quartet, Cypresses: Hagen Quartet)
- Composer Antonín Dvořák
- Ensemble Hagen Quartett
- 3:10 – Os Justi
- Conductor Nigel Short
- Composer Anton Bruckner
- Choir Tenebrae
- 8:04 – Six Short Pieces for piano (No 4 in A major)
- Performer Hiroaki Takenouchi
- Composer Alice Mary Smith
- 10:15 – Symphony in A Major: II. Larghetto
- Composer Camille Saint‐Saëns
- Orchestra Malmö SymfoniOrkester
- Conductor Marc Soustrot
- 13:07 – Benedictus (from The Armed Man - a Mass for Peace)
- Orchestra London Mozart Players
- Conductor Karl Jenkins
- Performer Timothy Hugh
- Singer Malakai
- Choir Schola Cantorum of The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School
- 17:45 – Nocturne in B major Op.32 no.1 (track 9, Chopin: The Nocturnes: Maria Joao Pires)
- Composer Frédéric Chopin
- Performer Maria João Pires
- 22:35 – Romanze (track 1, Weiner: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 3)
- Composer Leó Weiner
- Performer Ditta Rohmann
- Performer Melinda Felletár
- Orchestra MÁV Szimfonikus zenekar
- Conductor Valéria Csányi