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A 30-minute prescription for calm

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, including works by Mendelssohn, Evelyn Glennie, Lully, Caroline Shaw, and Joseph Bologne.

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

30 minutes

Last on

Thu 20 Nov 202519:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • John Barry

    The Beyondness of Things

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: John Barry.
    • Decca.

  • Teresa Carreño

    Petit valse 'Teresita'

    Performer: Alexandra Oehler.
    • Teresa Carreno: Klavierwerke (Piano works).
    • ARS MUSICI.
    • 013.

  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Quartet concertant in B flat major Op 15 No 6 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet.
    • Saint-Georges: 6 Quartetto concertans.
    • Naxos.
    • 602.

  • Evelyn Glennie

    Light in Darkness

    Performer: Evelyn Glennie.
    • RCA Red Seal.

  • Caroline Shaw

    ...and the Swallow

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • A Prayer for Deliverance.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 104.

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    L'amour médecin (Chaconne)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Music at the Court of Versailles: Charpentier/Delalande/Lully/Rameau.
    • Erato.
    • 18.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Sextet in D major, Op 110 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili. Performer: Dora Schwarzberg. Performer: Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg. Performer: Lyda Chen. Performer: Jorge Bosso. Performer: Enrico Fagone.
    • Live from the Lugano Festival 2009, Martha Argerich and friends.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 10.

  • Leo Brouwer

    Berceuse

    Performer: John Williams.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

Broadcast

  • Thu 20 Nov 202519:00
    BBC Radio 3

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