Classical music for focus or relaxation
Episode m002f7dj, broadcast at Tuesday 8th July 2025, 7:00pm.
“Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, with composers including Tallis, Fauré and Saint-Saëns. Produced by Ella Lee”
Track listing
- 0:00 – If Ye Love Me (track 12, Gaudent in Coelis: Choral Music by Sally Beamish, Judith Bingham & Joanna Marsh)
- Composer Thomas Tallis
- Conductor Edward Wickham
- Ensemble The Choirs of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
- 2:11 – Nocturne in E major, Op. 62 No. 2 (track 7, Chopin Now)
- Composer Frédéric Chopin
- Performer Håkon Austbø
- 7:00 – Le jardin de Dolly (Dolly Suite orch Rabaud) (track 6, Sir Thomas Beecham: The French Collection)
- Composer Gabriel Fauré
- Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor Thomas Beecham
- 10:04 – John Anderson (Romances and Ballads Set 3, Op.145)
- Composer Robert Schumann
- Conductor Stephen Layton
- Choir Polyphony
- 12:31 – 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
- 18:02 – Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 75: II. Adagio (track 2, French Impressions)
- Performer Joshua Bell
- Composer Camille Saint‐Saëns
- Performer Jeremy Denk
- 23:21 – Ludus pro patria: II. La Nuit et l'Amour (track 7, Aux étoiles - French Symphonic Poems)
- Orchestra Orchestre national de Lyon
- Composer Augusta Holmès
- Conductor Nikolaj Znaider