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Finding stillness in sound ft. girl in red

Ultimate CalmÓlafur Arnalds: Series 3
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Escape into a world of calm with Ólafur Arnalds and the music that helps him find stillness. Plus, the Norwegian singer girl in red transports us to her musical safe haven.

Take a moment to stop, be still and breathe.

Icelandic pianist and composer Ólafur Arnalds returns with his third series of Ultimate Calm, each episode a musical journey into a world of calm. Ólafur invites you to join him for an hour of music that he turns to for escape and reflection - finding stillness in sound. There’ll be tracks from the likes of Brian Eno, Hinako Omori and Kelly Moran, and Ólafur reflects on the importance of carving out space for one’s self amidst the busy noise of the modern world.

Plus we visit the first safe haven of the series, discovering the piece of music that brings ultimate calm to Norwegian singer and songwriter girl in red, a personal, nostalgic track that reminds her of a certain time in her life.

Produced by Kit Callin
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 3 Unwind

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Fri 12 Dec 202521:00
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Music Played

  • Olivia Belli

    Respiro 1

    • Intermundia.
    • XXIM.

  • Olivier Cong

    患難

    • 詩 (Elegies).

  • Holland Andrews

    A Clearing

    • Answers.
    • LEITER.

  • Ben Lukas Boysen & Lisa Morgenstern & Anne M​ü​ller

    Prologue

    • Falling Into Place (Original Score).
    • Erased Tapes.

  • Kelly Moran

    Butterfly Phase

    • Moves in the Field.
    • Warp.

  • Nils Frahm

    Towards Zero

    • Day.
    • LEITER.

  • Hinako Omori

    Both Directions?

    • Stillness, Softness....
    • Houndstooth.

  • Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini

    Illusion of Time (Teodor Wolgers Rework)

    • Illusion Of Time.
    • Mute.

  • Girl in Red

    it would feel like this

    • If I Could Make It Go Quiet.
    • World in Red / AWAL Recordings.

  • Quentin Sirjacq

    Memory 1

    • Piano Memories.
    • Schole Records.

  • Gia Margaret

    Cinnamon

    • Romantic Piano.
    • Jagjaguwar.

  • Rebekah Reid

    What Life Gifts

    • Selected Works Vol​.​1.

  • Abel Korzeniowski

    Stillness Of The Mind

  • Bruce Brubaker

    Music for Airports

    • Eno Piano.
    • InFine.

  • Ryuichi Sakamoto

    Happy End

    • THREE.
    • KAB America Inc.

  • Poppy Ackroyd

    Stillness

    • Pause.
    • One Little Independent.

  • Flaer

    Souvenir

    • Odda Recordings.

  • William Grant Still

    Ennanga - ii

    Ensemble: Videmus.
    • New World Records.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 1 Dec 202422:00
    BBC Radio 3
  • Mon 16 Dec 202421:00
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  • Mon 27 Jan 202521:00
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  • Mon 10 Mar 202521:00
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  • Mon 7 Apr 202521:00
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  • Mon 2 Jun 202521:00
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  • Mon 28 Jul 202521:00
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  • Mon 8 Sep 202521:00
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  • Mon 13 Oct 202521:00
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  • Fri 12 Dec 202521:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind