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Highlights from the 2023 season of 大象传媒 Proms, the UK鈥檚 greatest classical music festival.

Can classical music help us focus or bring inner peace? You can judge for yourself in this tranquil programme from the Royal Albert Hall in London with the Grammy-nominated vocal group Voces8, Norwegian pianist-composer Ola Gjeilo and the Carducci String Quartet. The concert explores the themes of meditation and stillness through the lens of stress-busting music from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Andrew McGregor and neuropsychologist Professor Catherine Loveday introduce this 大象传媒 Prom.

Broadcast programme:
Jake Runestad: Let My Love Be Heard
Ola Gjeilo: Still
Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 3 'Mishima' - VI Mishima/Closing
Eric Whitacre: All Seems Beautiful to Me
Ola Gjeilo: The Rose
Caroline Shaw: And the Swallow
Ola Gjeilo: Improvisation
Radiohead, arr. G Lawson: Pyramid Song
Ken Burton: A Prayer
Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei

Voces8
Ola Gjeilo piano
Carducci String Quartet
Ruby Aspinall harp

(Photo: People in the audience at the Mindful Mix Prom, Royal Albert Hall in London. Credit: 大象传媒/Andy Paradise)

53 minutes

Last on

Sun 27 Aug 2023 19:06GMT

Broadcasts

  • Sat 26 Aug 2023 18:06GMT
  • Sun 27 Aug 2023 11:06GMT
  • Sun 27 Aug 2023 13:06GMT
  • Sun 27 Aug 2023 19:06GMT