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Essential Classics for study and focus

Improve your study sessions with an hour of music to keep you concentrating.

Can listening to classical music help you concentrate? Try it out at your next study session with a playlist of brain-boosting tracks from composers who obviously know a thing or two about focus and creativity. Keep an ear out for some of the greats including Franz Schubert, Johann Sebastian Bach, Caroline Shaw and Philip Glass.

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Sat 27 Apr 2024 01:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Solo Cello Suite no.1 in G major (Prelude & Allemande)

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt.
    • Bach: The Cello Suites.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1-2.

  • Claude Debussy

    Dr Gradus ad Parnassum (Children's corner)

    Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Childhood Tales.
    • Decca.

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Mandolin Concerto in G Major, III. Rondo. Allegro

    Performer: Avi Avital. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Hummel: Mandolin Concerto in G Major, S. 28: III. Rondo. Allegro (Cadenza: A. Av.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Nulla in mundo pax sincera RV.630

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Catherine Rimer. Performer: Thomas Dunford. Performer: Jan Waterfield. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Director: Christian Curnyn.
    • Nicola Benedetti: Italia.
    • Decca.
    • 15.

  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Les Barricades Mysterieuses

    Music Arranger: Thomas Ad猫s. Ensemble: The Composers Ensemble.
    • Ades: America: A Prophecy.
    • Warner.
    • 14.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 21 in C major, K 467 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Sony.

  • Caroline Shaw

    Plan & Elevation (The Orangery)

    Ensemble: Attacca Quartet.
    • Orange.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Crist贸bal de Morales

    Parce mihi Domine

    Music Arranger: Jan Garbarek. Choir: The Hilliard Ensemble. Performer: Jan Garbarek.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon in D major

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Lorenza Borrani. Performer: Lucy Gould. Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout. Performer: Stephan Rath. Performer: Jonathan Cohen.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.

  • Rachel Portman

    'Chocolat' - Main Title

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: David Snell.
    • Chocolat (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    African Suite (Valse)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Chineke! Records.

  • Erik Satie

    Gymnop茅die no.1 in D major

    Performer: Joanna MacGregor.
    • The Music of Erik Satie; Joanna MacGregor.
    • Collins Classics.
    • 6.

  • Rachel Bruerville

    Dancing On Tiptoes

    Ensemble: ACO Collective.
    • Women Of Note: A Century Of Australian Composers Vol. 2.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 14.

  • Franz Schubert

    Ungarische Melodie in B minor, D 817

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • Schubert, Live, Volume 3: Imogen Cooper.
    • Avie.
    • 5.

  • Andy Scott

    Seven Dances (Easy)

    Ensemble: Aquarelle Guitar Quartet.
    • Dances Aquarelle Guitar Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

  • Philip Glass

    Dance 8

    Ensemble: Philip Glass Ensemble.
    • Sony Classical.

Broadcast

  • Sat 27 Apr 2024 01:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3