Classical music to lift the spirits
Music for a journey of discovery.
Today's mixtape in our positive mental health week is about that fundamental human journey we all take at various times in our lives: discovery. Poulenc's jolly, mythical Embarkment for Cythera kick-starts our half hour, morphing into music by the Abbess Hildegard of Bingen, beautifully updated and reaching back and forth between the millenia: music that has inspired explorers of new age ideas as well as the feminist movement. John Cage's In a Landscape next: the American composer's piano essay meanders in a still wilderness of searching beauty. Borodin next and then Mozart, a composer who retained his childish fascination for discovery. Then comes Berlioz's Harold in Italy, the viola doubling as Harold, our hero wandering in the Abruzzi pennines; the healing power of nature is writ large in this piece. Staying in a world of enchantment, our 'discovery' journey ends with Ravel's masterpiece Fairy Garden, ending on a note of incomparable beauty and love.
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Francis Poulenc
L'embarquement pour Cyth猫re
Performer: Seta Tanyel. Performer: Jeremy Brown.- CHANDOS.
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Hildegard von Bingen
O virtus sapientiae; Dixit Dominus; O virtus sapientiae
Singer: Victoria Couper. Ensemble: Sinfonye. Director: Stevie Wishart.- DECCA.
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John Cage
In a landscape
Performer: Noel Lee.- American music for piano: Noel Lee.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 13.
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Alexander Borodin
Serenata alla spagnola
Ensemble: Borodin Quartet.- Teldec.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in F major K.138 (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Director: Petra M眉llejans.- Mozart: Divertimenti.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 11.
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Hector Berlioz
Harold in Italy, Op.16 (Serenade)
Performer: Lise Berthaud. Orchestra: Op茅ra de Lyon. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.- Berlioz: Harold en Italie.
- Naxos.
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Maurice Ravel
Mother Goose Suite
Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Nelson Freire.- DG.
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- Thu 21 May 2020 19:00成人快手 Radio 3
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