A 30-minute prescription for calm
Episode m002m124, broadcast at Thursday 20th November 2025, 7:00pm.
“Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, including a sextet by Felix Mendelssohn, Evelyn Glennie's Light in Darkness for marimba, the overture from Lully's score to Molière's L'Amour médecin, a quartet concertant by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George, John Barry's cinematic The Beyondness of Things and Caroline Shaw's And the swallow for chorus. Producer: Eleonora Claps”
Track listing
- 0:00 – The Beyondness of Things
- Orchestra English Chamber Orchestra
- Conductor John Barry
- 4:13 – Petit valse 'Teresita' (track 013, Teresa Carreno: Klavierwerke (Piano works))
- Composer Teresa Carreño
- Performer Alexandra Oehler
- 7:49 – Quartet concertant in B flat major Op 15 No 6 (2nd mvt) (track 602, Saint-Georges: 6 Quartetto concertans)
- Composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
- Ensemble Arabella String Quartet
- 10:52 – Light in Darkness
- Performer Evelyn Glennie
- 14:29 – ...and the Swallow (track 104, A Prayer for Deliverance)
- Conductor Nigel Short
- Composer Caroline Shaw
- Choir Tenebrae
- 18:45 – L'amour médecin (Chaconne) (track 18, Music at the Court of Versailles: Charpentier/Delalande/Lully/Rameau)
- Conductor Marc Minkowski
- Orchestra Les Musiciens du Louvre
- Composer Jean‐Baptiste Lully
- 20:45 – Sextet in D major, Op 110 (2nd mvt) (track 10, Live from the Lugano Festival 2009, Martha Argerich and friends)
- Composer Felix Mendelssohn
- Performer Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg
- Performer Khatia Buniatishvili
- Performer Dora Schwarzberg
- Performer Lyda Chen
- Performer Enrico Fagone
- Performer Jorge Bosso
- 25:06 – Berceuse
- Composer Leo Brouwer
- Performer John Williams