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Portico Quartet choose tracks to keep your mind in check

The Mercury Prize-nominated group selects two hours of classical sounds to help you focus with music from Nico Muhly, Meredith Monk and Steve Reich.

Portico Quartet make widescreen instrumental music, carefully sculpting elements of classical, jazz, ambient and electronic music. For this mix, the Mercury Prize-nominated group selects two hours of their favourite serene and spacious classical sounds to help you focus, with music from Nico Muhly, Meredith Monk and Steve Reich.

Produced by Gabriel Francis
A Reduced Listening production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Sounds

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Music Played

  • Rebecca Clarke

    Morpheus

    Performer: Philip Dukes. Performer: Sophia Rahman.
    • Viola Music.
    • Naxos.

  • Okkyung Lee

    Here We Are (Once Again)

    • Yeo-Neun.
    • Shelter Press.

  • Portico Quartet

    Mirage

    • We Welcome Tomorrow.
    • Gondwana Records.

  • John Adams & Bruce Brubaker

    China Gates

    • Inner Cities (Music For Piano By John Adams And Alvin Curran).
    • Arabesque Recordings.

  • Nico Muhly

    A Hudson Cycle

    • Speaks Volumes.
    • Bedroom Community.

  • Hania Rani & Dobrawa Czocher

    There Will Be Hope

    • Inner Symphonies.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

    Sinfonietta No.2, "Generations": II. Alla Sarabande

    Performer: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • African Heritage Symphonic Series, Volume III.
    • Cedille Records.

  • Arvo PΓ¤rt

    Cantate Domino (Psalm 95): Summa (Credo)

    Performer: Theatre of Voices. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • De Profundis.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Meredith Monk & Bang on a Can All-Stars

    The Games: Spaceship

    • Memory Game.
    • Cantaloupe Music.

  • Erik Hall & Steve Reich

    Pulses

    • Music For 18 Musicians (Steve Reich).
    • Western Vinyl.

  • John Cage

    In a Landscape

    Performer: Alexei Lubimov.
    • Der Bote.
    • ECM Records.

  • Portico Quartet

    Memory Palace

    • Memory Streams.
    • Gondwana Records.

  • Stefano Bollani

    Antonia

    • Piano Solo.
    • ECM Records.

  • Julius Eastman

    Femenine: No. 1, Prime

    Ensemble: Wild Up.
    • Julius Eastman Vol. 1: Femenine.
    • New Amsterdam Records.

  • Philip Glass

    Einstein on the Beach: Bed

    Ensemble: Philip Glass Ensemble. Conductor: Michael Riesman.
    • Songs from the Trilogy.
    • CBS.

  • Andrea Tarrodi

    Lume

    Choir: Allmänna Sången. Conductor: Maria Goundorina.
    • Femina Moderna.
    • BIS.

  • Morton Feldman

    Rothko Chapel 5

    Performer: David Abel. Performer: William Winant. Choir: UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus. Conductor: Philip Brett.
    • Rothko Chapel; Why Patterns?.
    • New Albion.

  • Tim Hecker

    No Drums

    • Ravedeath, 1972.
    • Kranky.

  • William Basinski

    Melancholia II

    • Melancholia.
    • 2062.

  • Robert Schumann

    Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17: No.3, Langsam getragen. Durchweg leise zu halten

    Performer: Miki Yumihari.
    • Schumann - Fantasie.
    • Camerata Tokyo.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Lyric Pieces, Book 10, Op.71: No.2. Summer's Eve

    Performer: Antonio Pompa-Baldi.
    • Works For Piano, Vol. 7.
    • Centaur Records.

  • Portico Quartet

    Procession

    • Next Stop.
    • Gondwana Records.

  • JΓ³hann JΓ³hannsson

    Orphic Hymn

    Choir: Theatre of Voices. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • °Ώ°ω±θ³σΓ©±π.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.