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Find your flow with Chineke! Orchestra's Classical Focus mix

Two hours of eclectic and moving classical music curated by Chineke! Orchestra to help you find your focus.

Join us on the finale of our orchestral takeover of Classical Focus with Chineke! Orchestra.

Presenting a two hour mix of eclectic and moving classical music chosen by double bassist, Founder & Artistic Director Chi-chi Nwanoku CBE, violinist and Founder Steven Crichlow and clarinetist Anton Clarke-Butler. This playlist features beautiful music from composers of multiple nations and backgrounds including Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Florence Beatrice Price and Fela Sowande.

Produced by Alexa Kruger
A Reduced Listening production for 大象传媒 Sounds

1 hour, 60 minutes

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Music Played

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 80: II. Andante semplice

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Classics.

  • William Grant Still

    Suite for Violin and Piano: II. Mother and Child

    Performer: Zhu Wang. Performer: Randall Goosby.
    • Roots.
    • Decca.

  • Florence Price

    II. His Resignation and Faith (Andante)

    Performer: Jeneba Kanneh鈥怣ason. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra.
    • Chineke! Orchestra 鈥� Florence Price (feat. Jeneba Kanneh-Mason).
    • Decca Records.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Much ado about nothing - Incidental Music: No.4 Intermezzo

    Performer: Andr茅 Previn. Performer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Performer: Gil Shaham.
    • Barber and Korngold: Violin Concertos.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • George Walker

    Lyric for Strings

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • African Heritage Symphonic Series - Volume II.
    • Cedille Records.

  • Fela Sowande

    African Suite: IV. Onipe: Andante; con tenerezza

    Orchestra: CBC Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Mario Bernardi.
    • Sowande: African Suite / Milhaud: Globetrotter Suite.
    • CBC.

  • George Rochberg

    String Quartet No.6: III. Variations (on Pachelbel Canon)

    Ensemble: Concord String Quartet.
    • George Rochberg: String Quartets 3-6.
    • New World Records.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Bernstein: Serenade after Plato's Symposium: IV. Agathon

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Bernstein: Serenade - Barber: Violin Concerto - Foss: Three American Pieces.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in G Major, M.83: 2. Adagio assai

    Performer: Yundi. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Protofiev: Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.16, Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Maj.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Chiquinha Gonzaga

    Lua Branca - Arr. by Marcus Viana

    Performer: Maria Teresa Madeira.
    • Chiquinha Gonzaga - Mestres Brasileiros Volume 1.
    • Sonhos & Sons.

  • Margaret Bonds

    Deep River

    Performer: Lara Downes.
    • Some of These Days.
    • Flipside Music.

  • Eric Whitacre

    The Seal Lullaby (Arr. Parkin)

    Ensemble: The Kanneh鈥怣asons.
    • Carnival (Standard version).
    • Decca.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Concerto a 5 in D Minor, Op. 9, No. 2 for Oboe, Strings and Continuo: II. Adagio

    Performer: David Reichenberg. Performer: Trevor Pinnock. Ensemble: The English Concert.
    • Adagio & Concerti.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Daniel Bernard Roumain & Ryuichi Sakamoto

    The Need To Be

    • Sound Unbound: Excerpts And Allegories From The Sub Rosa Archives.
    • Sub Rosa.

  • Joby Talbot

    String Quartet No.2

    Ensemble: The Duke Quartet.
    • The Dying Swan: Music For 1 To 7 Players.
    • Black Box.

  • Stewart Goodyear

    Callaloo: III. Ballad

    Performer: Wayne Marshall. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra.
    • Stewart Goodyear: Callaloo & Piano Sonata - Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue.
    • Orchid Classics.

  • Imani Winds

    Coleman: Umoja

    • Imani Winds.
    • Koch International.

  • Florence Beatrice Price

    Adoration

    Performer: Zhu Wang. Performer: Randall Goosby.
    • Price: Adoration.
    • Decca Classics.

  • Fela Sowande

    African Suite: III. Lullaby: Andantecantbile e sostenuto

    Orchestra: CBC Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Mario Bernardi.
    • Sowande: African Suite / Milhaud: Globetrotter Suite.
    • CBC.

  • William Grant Still

    Symphony No.1, "Afro-American" (1969 revision): II. Adagio "Sorrow"

    Orchestra: Cincinnati Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Jindong Cai.
    • Still: Symphony No. 1, 'Afro-American'.
    • Centaur.

  • William Dawson

    Negro Folk Symphony: II. Hope in the Night

    Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Arthur Fagen.
    • Dawson & Kay: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet, Op.2: II. Andante con moto

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca.

  • Adolphus Hailstork

    Epitaph For The Man Who Dreamed

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • African Heritage Symphonic Series - Volume II.
    • Cedille Records.