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Lift your morning with gentle classical sounds

Calming classical music to inspire focus and set you up for the day ahead. Presented by broadcaster, author and counselling psychologist Dr Sian Williams.

Calming classical music to help you focus and set you up for the day ahead. Presented by broadcaster, author and counselling psychologist Dr Sian Williams.

Featuring warm harmonies from Emilie Mayer, Maurice Ravel, and Erich Korngold, Sian also takes time to notice the smaller things in nature while on a walk. Plus, Professor Catherine Loveday explores how music affects our ability to study - enhancement or distraction?

3 hours

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Tue 27 Jan 202609:00
BBC Radio 3 Unwind

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Music Played

  • John Foulds

    Keltic Suite, Op.29: ii. A Lament (Lento eroico)

    Performer: BBC Concert Orchestra.
    • BBC.

  • Max Richter

    Winter 2 (2022)

    Performer: Max Richter. Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Chineke! Orchestra.
    • DG.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Young Prince & Princess

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Extreme.

  • Harry Burleigh

    Southern Lullaby

    Performer: Lara Downes. Performer: PUBLIQuartet.
    • Rising Sun Records.

  • Laura Mvula

    Sing to the Moon

    Performer: Pembroke College Chapel Choir.
    • Signum Records.

  • Michael Nyman

    The Heart Asks Pleasure First

    Performer: Ahn Trio.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54: Intermezzo (Andantino Grazioso)

    Performer: Jan Lisiecki. Performer: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.

  • Léo Delibes

    Sylvia, ou La Nymphe de Diane Suite, Act I: No. 4b, Valse lente

    Performer: Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra.
    • Naxos.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op 72 no 2

    Performer: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Ryan Wigglesworth.
    • BBC.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: II. Andante

    Performer: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Juanjo Mena.
    • BBC.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Hymn Tune Prelude on Song 13 by Orlando Gibbons

    Performer: Mark Bebbington.
    • SOMM.

  • William Grant Still

    Africa: Land of Romance

    Performer: Fort Smith Symphony.
    • Naxos.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35: II. Romanze

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne No. 20 In C Sharp Minor

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Peter Limonov.
    • Decca.

  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Piano Sonata No. 9 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 5, No. 3: II. Adagio non troppo

    Performer: Nicolas Horvath.
    • Grand Piano.

  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 5 No. 2: II. Largo

    Performer: Fumika Mohri.
    • Cedille.

  • Elisabetta de Gambarini

    Sonata in F Major, Op 1 No 4: Tempo di Gavotta

    Performer: Margherita Torretta.
    • Piano Classics.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty, Prologue: March-Entrance Of Fairies

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Extreme.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Ma mère l'Oye, M. 60: V. Le jardin féerique

    Performer: Sakari Oramo. Performer: BBC Symphony Orchestra.
    • BBC.

  • Ayo Bankole

    African Suite: II. Ioahun Re

    Performer: Rebeca Omordia.
    • Heritage.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Symphony No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 2: III. Adagio

    Performer: Georges Prêtre.
    • Warner.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Andante Festivo

    Performer: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
    • UMG.

  • Franz Waxman

    Tristan and Isolde. Love Music (After Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"). Moderately

    Performer: Svetlin Roussev. Performer: Yeol Eum Son.
    • Believe International.

  • Louis Glass

    Sommerliv Suite, Op 27: IV. In the Twilight

    Performer: Daniel Raiskin. Performer: Rheinische Philharmonie.
    • CPO.

  • Dora Pejačević

    Blumenleben, Op. 19: No. 5, Rose

    Performer: Hiroko Ishimoto.
    • Grand Piano.

  • Ferruccio Busoni

    7 Short Pieces for the Cultivation of Polyphonic Playing, BV 296: No. 7

    Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin.
    • HYPERION.

  • Elfrida Andrée

    Sommarminnen från Bjurslätt: 2. Andante

    • ALTFIOL i VÄST.

  • Ludovico Einaudi

    Nuvole Bianche

    Performer: Ludovico Einaudi. Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: I Virtuosi Italiani. Performer: Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble.
    • Decca.

  • Gerald Finzi

    5 Bagatelles, Op. 23a (Arr. L. Ashmore for Clarinet & Strings): No. 4, Forlana.

    Performer: Robert Plane.
    • Naxos.

  • Emilie Mayer

    Symphony No 2 in E minor, III. Un Poco adagio

    Performer: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Leo McFall.
    • CPO.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet No 13 in A minor, Op 29: Andante

    Performer: Artemis Quartet.
    • WARNER.

  • Gustav Holst

    St Paul's Suite, Op 29, No 2 IV. Finale, "The Dargason"

    Performer: Kenneth Sillito. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Orchestra & Uppsala Chamber Orchestra.
    • AMERITZ MUSIC.
    • 1.

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