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Elevate your evening with soothing music

Niall Breslin brings you calming classical music to help you release the stresses of the day, recharge and prepare to rest.

Three hours of calming classical music to help you release the stresses of the day, recharge and prepare to rest - presented by Irish musician and mindfulness expert Niall Breslin.

This episode features a rich blend of music from the likes of Rosey Chan, Sufjan Stevens and Nils Frahm. Plus, a chance to Press Pause with meditation teacher Michael James Wong, and some essential Wind Down Wisdom from science podcaster Caroline Steel on the benefits of being in your own company.

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Music Played

  • Charles Gounod

    Ave Maria (meditation on Bach's prelude in C)

    Performer: Mari Samuelsen. Performer: Julien Quentin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Melodie (5 Fantasy pieces, Op 3 No 3)

    Performer: Kotaro Fukuma.
    • Naxos.

  • Arthur Bliss

    Meditation 5: In green pastures (Meditations on a theme of John Blow)

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.

  • John Blow

    Salvator mundi

    Performer: Timothy Byram-Wigfield. Performer: Hilary Brooks. Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Ensemble: Baroque Brass of London. Conductor: Martin Neary.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Elliott Jack Sansom

    Melody To Freedom

    Performer: Elliott Jack Sansom.
    • Decca.

  • Jean Cras

    Cello sonata (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Astrig Siranossian. Performer: Nathanaël Gouin.
    • Invisibles.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 2.

  • A Blomqvist & Carlos Hof

    Que des Souvenirs

    • Nordic Euphony Records.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 44 in E minor (Mourning) - 3rd mvt

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Gavotte with 6 variations

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Oliver Davis

    Coral Suite - II

    Ensemble: Beth & Flo. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Bateman.
    • Signum Records.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quintet in G minor, K 516 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: John Crockatt. Ensemble: Consone Quartet.

  • Tony Woollard

    Icarus

    Performer: Tony Woollard.
    • Bigo & Twigetti.

  • Florence Price

    Adoration

    Music Arranger: Elaine Fine. Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Zhu Wang.
    • Decca.

  • Sufjan Stevens

    Reflexion

    Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque. Performer: David Chalmin. Performer: Bryce Dessner.
    • Universal Music Division Decca Records France.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Juliette Hurel. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • WARNER.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Ave Maria arr. for cello & piano

    Performer: Fulvia Mancini. Performer: Benjamin Engeli.
    • Halidon.

  • Sophie Hutchings

    Dreaming The Stars

    Performer: Sophie Hutchings.
    • Mercury Classics.

  • Franz Schubert

    Die Nacht, D 983/4

    Choir: Sonat Vox. Conductor: Justus Merkel.
    • Animato.

  • Marta Cascales Alimbau

    Moonlit

    Performer: Marta Cascales Alimbau.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Luise Adolpha Le Beau

    Symphony No 1 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Paterson.

  • Nils Frahm

    Ambre

    Performer: Nils Frahm.
    • ERASED TAPES RECORDS LTD.

  • J.J. Johnson

    Lament (arr. for violin & piano)

    Performer: Kristin Lee. Performer: Jeremy Ajani Jordan. Music Arranger: Jeremy Ajani Jordan.
    • First Hand.

  • Tayla-Leigh Payne

    Meditation

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Parkinson.

  • Diana Yukawa

    For You

    • 1631 Recordings.

  • Rebecca Dale

    Paradisum Interlude (Materna Requiem)

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

  • Aphex Twin

    Avril 14th

    • Warp Records.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Barcarolle (Tales of Hoffmann)

    Singer: Fatma Said. Singer: Marianne Crebassa. Orchestra: Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sascha Goetzel.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Phoria

    Nouveau-Ne (Re-Imagined)

    • Akira Records.

  • John Barry

    The Beyondness of Things

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: John Barry.
    • Decca.

  • Akira Kosemura

    Looking in the same direction

    Performer: Akira Kosemura.
    • Schole Records.

  • Brandee Younger

    Brown Brown Baby

    Performer: Brandee Younger.
    • Impulse!.

  • John Field

    Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat major (2nd mvt: Scottish Air, 'Within a mile of Edinburgh Town')

    Performer: Benjamin Frith. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: David Haslam.
    • Naxos.

  • Six Missing

    On Being

    • Nettwerk Music Group.

  • Helen Ostafew

    A New Horizon

    Performer: Helen Ostafew.

  • Jon Uijtjens

    Melancholic Waves

    Performer: Jon Uijtjens.

  • Joey Roukens

    Silent Echoes

    Performer: Lucas Jussen. Performer: Arthur Jussen. Orchestra: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Karina Canellakis.
    • UMG Recordings, Inc..

  • Eleanor Dunnet

    Exhale

    Conductor: David Hill. Choir: BBC Singers. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.

  • Rosey Chan

    Water is Life

    Performer: Rosey Chan.
    • Rosey Chan.

  • Abilene

    Sweetest Rain

    • Signum Records.

  • Mike Olsen

    Mayday

    • Hand Drawn Dracula.

  • John Ireland

    The Holy Boy

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: James Baillieu.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 5 Jan 202518:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Wed 29 Jan 202518:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Fri 4 Apr 202518:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Thu 26 Jun 202518:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Mon 29 Dec 202517:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind