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Essential Classics to boost mental wellbeing

Georgia Mann presents a special episode of the Essential Classics mix to boost mental wellbeing, featuring a selection of tracks to help you feel soothed and calm, including music from Fela Sowande, Bach and Debussy.

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Sat 11 May 202401:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Jules Massenet

    Meditation (Thais)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Le Boeuf sur le Toit.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude in C major BWV.846 (The Well-Tempered Clavier - Bk.1)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Fela Sowande

    Nostalgia (African Suite)

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • CEDILLE.

  • Rachel Portman

    Taste of Chocolate (Chocolat)

    Orchestra: Unnamed orchestra. Conductor: David Snell.
    • Chocolat - Music from the Miramax Motion Picture.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 16.

  • Franz Schubert

    Ständchen

    Conductor: Iván Fischer. Ensemble: Budapest Strings.
    • Masters of Classical Music (Red Classics).
    • Cobra Entertainment LLC.
    • 44.

  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Nostalgic Piece

    Performer: Nicola Sweeney. Performer: Sarah Nicolls.
    • Kats-Chernin: Ragtime and Blue.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1501.

  • Shigeru Umebayashi

    Yumeji's Theme (In the Mood for Love)

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Palmer.
    • Cinéma.
    • Sony.
    • 10.

  • Josef Suk

    Serenade in E flat major, Op.6 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • Suk: Fairy Tale etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 5.

  • Thomas Adès

    Arcadiana (O Albion)

    Ensemble: Calder Quartet.
    • The Twenty-Fifth Hour - The Chamber Music of Thomas Ades.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
    • 13.

  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon. Conductor: Jun Märkl.
    • Naxos.

  • Clara Schumann

    3 Romances Op.22 no.1 arr. flute and piano

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Eric Le Sage.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Prelude in F major, Op.28 no.23

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 17.

  • Trad.

    Deep River

    Music Arranger: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Music Arranger: Kanneh-Mason Trio. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Braimah Kanneh-Mason.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Michel Legrand

    The Windmills of Your Mind

    Music Arranger: Michail Tsygutkin. Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • As Time Goes By.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 113.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Romance (The Gadfly)

    Music Arranger: Vadim Borisovsky. Performer: Lawrence Power. Performer: Simon Crawford‐Phillips.
    • Shostakovich: Music for viola and piano: Power/Crawford-Phillips.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.

  • John Barry

    The Beyondness of Things

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: John Barry.
    • Decca.

Broadcast

  • Sat 11 May 202401:30
    BBC Radio 3