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 Moli猫re's L'Amour m茅decin, 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
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John Barry
The Beyondness of Things
Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: John Barry.- Decca.
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Teresa Carre帽o
Petit valse 'Teresita'
Performer: Alexandra Oehler.- Teresa Carreno: Klavierwerke (Piano works).
- ARS MUSICI.
- 013.
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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.
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Evelyn Glennie
Light in Darkness
Performer: Evelyn Glennie.- RCA Red Seal.
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Caroline Shaw
...and the Swallow
Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.- A Prayer for Deliverance.
- Signum Classics.
- 104.
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Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully
L'amour m茅decin (Chaconne)
Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- Music at the Court of Versailles: Charpentier/Delalande/Lully/Rameau.
- Erato.
- 18.
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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.
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Leo Brouwer
Berceuse
Performer: John Williams.- SONY CLASSICAL.
Broadcast
- Thu 20 Nov 2025 19:00麻豆社 Radio 3
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