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Find solace with serene classical sounds

Let this calming collection of classical music guide you to a place of tranquillity. The perfect soundtrack for slowing down and taking a moment for yourself.

Let this calming collection of classical music guide you to a place of tranquillity. The perfect soundtrack for slowing down and taking a moment for yourself.

Featuring music by Maurice Ravel, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Thomas Tallis. Plus contemporary sounds from Caroline Shaw, Olivia Belli, and Thomas Ades.

Produced by James C Taylor
An Overcoat Media production for BBC Radio 3 Unwind, MM

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Sun 30 Nov 202506:00
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Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83 - II. Adagio assai

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Zdes' khorosho ('How Fair This Spot'), Op. 21, No. 7

    Performer: Pablo Ferrández. Performer: Denis Kozhukhin.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Albéric Magnard

    Suite d'orchestre dans le style ancien, Op. 2: II. Sarabande. Mesto

    Orchestra: Philharmonisches Orchester Freiburg. Conductor: Fabrice Bollon.
    • Naxos.

  • Ivo Antognini

    Come to Me

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Florence Price

    An Elf on a Moonbeam

    Performer: Anna Lapwood.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Snow Maiden, Op. 12 "Snégourotchka": X. Melodrama

    Orchestra: Metamorphose String Orchestra. Conductor: Pavel Lyubomudrov.
    • Halidon.

  • Ayo Bankole

    African Suite: II. Ioahun Re

    Performer: Rebeca Omordia.
    • Heritage Records.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Sonata In C minor. F XVI, No. 1: II. Largo

    Ensemble: Eroica Trio.
    • Angel Records.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Concerto in D Major, Op. 77: II. Adagio

    Performer: Francesca Dego. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
    • Chandos.

  • Thomas Tallis

    If Ye Love Me

    Performer: Jeffrey Skidmore. Performer: Andrew Fletcher. Ensemble: Ex Cathedra.
    • The Sound Corporation.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Händel Pifa

    Performer: Martin Stadtfeld.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Sarabande et rigaudon, Op. 93: Sarabande

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille. Conductor: Jun Märkl.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.

  • Franz Liszt

    Romance, S. 169 "O pourquoi donc"

    Performer: Yoav Levanon.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Warner Music UK Limited.

  • William Grant Still

    3 Visions: II. Summerland

    Performer: Mark Boozer.
    • Naxos.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    5 Fantasiestücke for String Quartet, Op. 5: No. 2, Serenade

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Azica Records.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.

  • Georgs Pelēcis

    Concertino bianco - 1. Con intenerimento

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska. Conductor: Johannes Fritzsch. Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).

  • Rebecca Dale

    R. Dale: Materna Requiem: 6. Paradisum Interlude

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de matin

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor, Op. 10 No. 1: 2. Adagio molto

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Max Richter

    To the Stars

    Conductor: Ben Foster. Orchestra: Air Lyndhurst String Orchestra.
    • To The Stars (From "Ad Astra" Soundtrack).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Lucy Walker

    Intuition

    Ensemble: BBC Singers.

  • Hubert Clifford

    Five English Nursery Tunes IV. Curly Locks

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Chandos.

  • George Walker

    Prelude

    Performer: Ricky Pageot.
    • NWCRI.

  • Charles Gounod

    Ave Maria, CG 89a

    Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • Decca (UMO).

  • Franz Danzi

    Wind Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 67, No. 3: II. Andante moderato

    Ensemble: Michael Thompson Wind Ensemble.
    • Naxos.

  • Caroline Shaw

    And the Swallow

    Ensemble: BBC Singers.

  • Gustav Holst

    A Moorside Suite, H. 173: Nocturne

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: David Lloyd‐Jones.
    • Naxos.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    3 Romances sans paroles: No. 1, Souvenance. Andantino

    Performer: Eric Parkin.
    • Chandos.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio in E Major, K. 261

    Conductor: Pinchas Zukerman. Orchestra: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Concord

    Performer: Matthew Barley.
    • Signum Records.

  • Olivia Belli

    Island II

    Performer: Olivia Belli.
    • XXIM Records.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Requiem, Op. 48: VII. In Paradisum

    Performer: José‐Luis García. Performer: Peter Barley. Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Warner Classics.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in D Minor, Op. 6, No. 10, HWV 328: V. Allegro

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Laura Netzel

    Cello Sonata in E Minor, Op. 66: II. Cantabile ma non troppo lento

    Performer: Lucia Negro. Performer: Ola Karlsson.
    • Musica Sveciae.

  • Ernest Tomlinson

    Little Serenade

    Orchestra: Pro Arte Orchestra. Conductor: George Weldon.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Thomas Adès

    Arcadiana, Op. 12: VI. O Albion

    Ensemble: Signum Quartett.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.

  • Amy Beach

    Piano Concerto in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 45: III. Largo

    Performer: Alan Feinberg. Orchestra: Nashville Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kenneth Schermerhorn.
    • Naxos.

  • Claude Debussy

    Beau soir

    Performer: Sophie Dervaux. Performer: Sélim Mazari.
    • EDEL Music & Entertainment GmbH.

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