Main content

A musical moment to press pause ft. Anoushka Shankar

Ultimate CalmÓlafur Arnalds: Series 3
Episode 5 of 12

Take a pause. Ólafur Arnalds plays restful music that feels like time has stopped. Plus the musician Anoushka Shankar shares the track that brings her ultimate calm.

There are some pieces of music that can make you feel like time has paused, which force you to stop in your tracks and take you away from your everyday life. Ólafur Arnalds plays a selection of time-related pieces that have that quality, including tracks from Hania Rani, Belle Chen and Hiroshi Yoshimura.

Plus we’re transported to the musical safe haven of the musician Anoushka Shankar. Anoushka is drawn to music that either gives her a gut punch of emotion or a deep peace. She shares a very special track that brings her ultimate calm; a piece by her father, the Indian sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar.

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

10 months left to listen

1 hour

Last on

Tue 16 Dec 202521:00
BBC Radio 3 Unwind

More episodes

Previous

Relax and flow with river-inspired music ft. NannaÓlafur Arnalds: Series 3

Next

Soothing soundtracks ft. Atli ÖrvarssonÓlafur Arnalds: Series 3

See all episodes from Ultimate Calm

Music Played

  • Lullatone

    A tape of a tape of a tape of a time (Akira Kosemura rework)

    Remix Artist: Akira Kosemura.

  • Hania Rani

    Time

    • Gondwana Records.

  • John Cage

    In A Landscape

    Performer: Alessandra Celletti.
    • Pianoramix.

  • Jefre Cantu‐Ledesma

    Palace of time

    • Mexican Summer.

  • Joep Beving & Maarten Vos

    02-07

    • Leiter.

  • Lara Somogyi

    daybreaking

  • Foreign Fields

    Terrible times (reprise)

  • Anoushka Shankar

    Offering

    Orchestra: London Contemporary Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Ames.
    • Leiter Verlag GmbH & Co. KG.

  • Hans‐Joachim Roedelius & Tim Story

    Spirit Clock

    • Erased Tapes.

  • Belle Chen

    Passages of time

    • Platoon.

  • Alaskan Tapes

    Seconds

  • Anoushka Shankar

    What Dreams Are Made Of

    Orchestra: London Contemporary Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Ames.

  • Ravi Shankar

    Shanti-Mantra

    • BMG Music.

  • Hiroshi Yoshimura

    Time After Time

    • Misawa Home.

  • Keaton Henson

    Dorma

    • Mercury KX.

  • Balmorhea

    Before Barbed Wire

    • Deutsche Grammophon.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 4 Nov 202421:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Fri 8 Nov 202421:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Fri 20 Dec 202421:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Sun 29 Dec 202422:00
    BBC Radio 3
  • Fri 31 Jan 202521:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Fri 14 Mar 202521:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Fri 11 Apr 202521:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Fri 6 Jun 202521:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Fri 1 Aug 202521:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Fri 12 Sep 202521:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Fri 17 Oct 202521:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Tue 16 Dec 202521:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind