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Step away from the daily grind with serene classical sounds

Blissful classical harmonies to calm your mind and bring peace to your soul.

Blissful classical harmonies to calm your mind and bring peace to your soul.

Featuring reflective harmonies from Mel Bonis, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Avril Coleridge-Taylor and calming textures by Ludwig van Beethoven, Charles Koechlin and Lili Boulanger.

Produced by Steven Rajam
An Overcoat Media production for BBC Radio 3 Unwind. MM

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Music Played

  • Sir George Dyson

    Woodland Suite: I. At Evening Bell

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos Records Limited.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ave verum corpus

    Conductor: Barry Rose. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Choir: St Paul's Cathedral Choir.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.

  • Rachel Portman

    recollection

    Performer: Rachel Portman.
    • Node Records.

  • Grace Williams

    Sailing Song (Sea Sketches, No 2)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Andrews.
    • Resonus Classics.

  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    Bachianas brasileiras No. 5: I. Aria (Cantilena): Adagio

    Performer: Plínio Fernandes. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Decca Records US.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Magnolia, Pt. 2: Mammy

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • Navona.

  • Claude Debussy

    The Girl with the Flaxen Hair

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Chandos Records Limited.

  • Lili Boulanger

    2 Pieces for Violin & Piano: No. 1, Nocturne

    Performer: Coco Tomita. Performer: Simon Callaghan.
    • Orchid Classics.

  • William Grant Still

    3 Visions: II. Summerland

    Performer: Mark Boozer.
    • Naxos.

  • Josef Rheinberger

    Abendlied, Op. 69 No. 3

    Conductor: John Rutter. Choir: The Cambridge Singers.
    • Collegium.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor, K. 491: II. Larghetto

    Conductor: Lars Vogt. Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris.
    • Ondine.

  • Charles Koechlin

    Paysages et marines, Op. 63b: No. 1. Sur la falaise

    Ensemble: Ensemble Contraste. Ensemble: Ensemble Initium.
    • TIMPANI.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11: Andante Cantabile

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Chandos Records.

  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Piano Sonata in F Minor, Op. 5 No. 2: II. Aria con espressione

    Performer: Nicolas Horvath.
    • Grand Piano.

  • Alan Hovhaness

    Sonata for Harp and Guitar, Op. 374, "Spirit of Trees": I. Andante cantabile

    Performer: Jason Vieaux. Performer: Yolanda Kondonassis.
    • Azica Records.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73: II. Adagio, un poco mosso

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • Harmonia Mundi UK Limited.

  • Mel Bonis

    Suite en Trio Op. 59: II. Pastorale

    Performer: Florian Wiek. Performer: Tatjana Ruhland. Ensemble: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • SWR Classic.

  • Alexis Ffrench

    Where Worlds Collide

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Augusta Holmès

    La Nuit et l'Amour: Interlude de l'ode symphonique

    Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland‐Pfalz. Composer: Samuel Friedmann.
    • Marco Polo.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra: II. Elegy. Adagio, "In Memoriam"

    Performer: Richard Watkins. Performer: Sophie Langdon. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Odaline de la Martínez.
    • Chandos.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturnes, Op. 27: No. 2 in D Flat Major. Lento sostenuto

    Performer: Jan Lisiecki.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Valentin Silvestrov

    Stille Musik: 3. Augenblicke der Serenade

    Performer: Valentin Silvestrov.
    • ECM New Series.

  • Morten Lauridsen

    Lux aeterna - III. O nata lux

    Conductor: Nicol Matt. Orchestra: I Virtuosi Italiani. Choir: Chamber Choir of Europe.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Max Richter

    To the Stars

    Conductor: Ben Foster. Orchestra: Air Lyndhurst String Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Fernando Sor

    24 Studies, Op. 35, "Exercises": Study No. 17 in D Major

    Music Arranger: Andrés Segovia. Performer: Timo Korhonen.
    • Ondine.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D Major, Op. 76 No. 5, II. Largo cantabile e mesto

    Performer: Dóra Kokas. Performer: Katalin Kokas. Performer: Noemi Gyori. Performer: Péter Bársony.
    • Hungaroton.

  • César Franck

    Panis Angelicus

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Chandos Records Limited.

  • Florence Price

    Resignation

    Performer: London Voices.
    • Oxford University Press Music.

  • Peteris Vasks

    Vientulais Engelis: Meditation for Violin and String Orchestra

    Performer: Mari Samuelsen. Conductor: Jonathan Stockhammer. Orchestra: Konzerthausorchester Berlin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Claude Debussy

    Deux Arabesques, L66: No. 1: Andantino con moto

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Introit, Op. 6

    Performer: Thomas Gould. Conductor: Nicholas Collon. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Rebecca Clarke

    I'll bid my heart be still

    Performer: Philip Dukes.
    • Naxos.

  • Luciano Berio

    6 Encores - 3. Wasserklavier

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).

  • Edward Elgar

    Dream Children, Op. 43

    Conductor: Raymond Agoult. Orchestra: New Symphony Orchestra of London.
    • Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd..

  • Joseph Horovitz

    Clarinet Sonatina in B-Flat Major: II. Lento, quasi andante

    Performer: Antonio Salguero. Performer: Pedro Gavilán.
    • IBS Classical.

  • Philip Stopford

    Do Not Be Afraid

    Choir: Ecclesium Choir. Conductor: Philip Stopford.
    • Priory Records Ltd.

  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    Sussex Landscape, Op. 27: II. Lento e molto tranquillo

    Conductor: Roderick Cox. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Karl Jenkins

    Cantilena

    Performer: Karl Jenkins.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).

Broadcasts

  • Sat 30 Nov 202406:00
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  • Wed 11 Dec 202414:00
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