Find focus with classical music
Episode m002fx0k, broadcast at Sunday 17th August 2025, 5:30pm, and Tuesday 22nd July 2025, 7:00pm.
“Relax into a seamless flow of calming classical music by composers whose work spans over two centuries - from Franz Schubert, born in 1797, to Ólafur Arnalds, born in 1986. This edition of Classical Mixtape also includes contemplative works by Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler, Amy Beach, Brian Eno, Oliver Davis and Fredrik Sjølin of the Danish String Quartet. Producer: Christina Kenny.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – An die Musik, D547 (track , For Dieter: The Past and the Future)
- Composer Franz Schubert
- Performer James Baillieu
- Singer Benjamin Appl
- 2:44 – Dance: II (track 2, Dance)
- Conductor Paul Bateman
- Performer Huw Watkins
- Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Composer Oliver Davis
- Performer Kerenza Peacock
- 5:50 – momentary (track 7, Infinity)
- Choir VOCES8
- Composer Ólafur Arnalds
- Performer Oliver Wass
- 8:39 – Berceuse, Op.40 no.2
- Performer Sir Stephen Hough
- Composer Amy Beach
- Performer Steven Isserlis
- 11:44 – Geistliches Lied Op.30 (track 6, Brahms: Symphony 4; Gardiner)
- Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Choir Monteverdi Choir
- Composer Johannes Brahms
- Orchestra Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
- 16:55 – Shore (track 2, Last Leaf)
- Ensemble Danish String Quartet
- Composer Fredrik Sjölin
- 19:48 – Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor: IV, Adagietto (excerpt) (track , Adagio - Music of Silence)
- Composer Gustav Mahler
- Orchestra Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Jukka‐Pekka Saraste
- 22:36 – An Ending (Ascent) (track , Labyrinths)
- Composer Brian Eno
- Orchestra Orchestra of the Swan
- Performer David Le Page
- Performer Eleanor Turner
- Conductor Daniele Rosina