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Embrace calm with soothing classical 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 Brian Eno, Francesca Guccione and Brahms. Plus, a chance to Press Pause with meditation teacher Maude Hirst, and some essential Wind Down Wisdom from science podcaster Caroline Steel on how an evening routine is good for wellbeing.

To listen on most smart speakers just ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Wind Down.

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Sat 24 Jan 202617:00
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Music Played

  • Hubert Parry

    Air from An English Suite

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • British Composers - Elgar, Stanford & Parry.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.

  • Alanna Crouch

    Exploration

    Performer: Alanna Crouch.
    • Alanna Crouch.

  • Alfred Newman

    Main Theme from The Greatest Story Ever Told

    Performer: Sebastian Knauer. Music Arranger: David Newman. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: David Newman.
    • Hollywood.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Adagio in G minor

    Ensemble: Consort of London. Director: Robert Clark.
    • COLLINS CLASSICS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ich will hier bi dir stehen (I will stay here with you) from St Matthew Passion, arr. Rosey Chan for piano

    Performer: Rosey Chan. Music Arranger: Rosey Chan.
    • Unity (Affinity).
    • Platoon.
    • 1.

  • Giovanni Sollima

    Igiul

    Performer: Abel Selaocoe. Ensemble: Manchester Collective.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Patrick Hawes

    Quanta Qualia

    Orchestra: Brno Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Patrick Hawes.
    • Fair Albion: Visions Of England.
    • Signum Records.
    • 15.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Quartet no.3 in C minor Op.60 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman. Performer: Maria Nowak. Performer: Katarzyna Budnik-Gałązka. Performer: Yuya Okamoto.
    • Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60: III. Andante.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Francesca Guccione

    Continuum

    Performer: Francesca Guccione.
    • Neue Meister.

  • Doreen Carwithen

    Prelude No 2

    Performer: Hiroaki Takenouchi.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Valse (6 Pieces, Op 51 No 6)

    Performer: Christian Li. Performer: Nicola Eimer. Music Arranger: Clara Peinado.
    • Tchaikovsky: 6 Pieces, Op. 51: No. 6, Valse sentimentale (Arr. Peinado for Violi.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Filipe de Magalhães

    Commissa mea pavesco

    Choir: Cupertinos. Conductor: Luís Toscano.
    • Magalhães: Missa Veni Domine & Missa Vere Dominus est.
    • Hyperion.
    • 43.

  • Philip Glass

    Paru River (Aguas da Amazonia)

    Ensemble: Third Coast Percussion.
    • Glass: Aguas da Amazonia.
    • Rockwell Records.
    • 9.

  • Eric Coates

    By the sleepy lagoon

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.

  • Amelie Moulin

    Appel a l'hiver

    Performer: Amelie Moulin.
    • jours de fête.
    • Piano Mosaic.
    • 9.

  • Matilde Capuis

    Solitudine (3 Moments for cello & string orchestra, No 2)

    Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Orchestra: Lucerne Festival Strings. Director: Daniel Dodds.
    • Femmes.
    • Sony.
    • 10.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor (5th mvt - Adagietto)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.

  • Caitlin Edwards

    Faithful

    Performer: Caitlin Edwards.
    • Exhale.
    • Caitlin Edwards.
    • 6.

  • Hidden Orchestra

    Archipelago: Source Materials, Part 8: Hushed - Clarinets

    • Archipelago: Source Materials.
    • Tru Thoughts.
    • 8.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Andante Cantabile for cello & orchestra (arrangement of String Quartet No 1, 2nd mvt)

    Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Tchaikovsky: Absolute Music Collection.
    • The Classical Label.
    • 6.

  • Kristina Arakelyan

    Meditation

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Heron.

  • Brian Eno

    Music for Airports 1/1

    • Ambient 1: Music For Airports (Remastered 2004).
    • EMI Marketing.
    • 1.

  • Hideyuki Hashimoto

    Time

    Performer: Hideyuki Hashimoto.
    • Time.
    • XXIM Records.
    • 1.

  • Karl Jenkins

    Euphonium concerto (2nd mvt - Romanza)

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Bramwell Tovey.
    • Chandos.

  • Joe Sinha Semple

    The Norwegian Sea

    Performer: Joe Sinha Semple.
    • enjou.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    In Paradisum from Requiem, Op 48

    Performer: Lucas Debargue. Music Arranger: Émile Naoumoff.
    • Requiem, Op. 48: VII. In Paradisum (Arr. for Piano by Émile Naoumoff).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

    Performer: John Crockatt. Ensemble: Consone Quartet.

  • Storms Over Oceans

    Bircher Common

    • Mirika Media.

  • Esbe

    Sunset on Mount Hotaka

    Performer: Esbe.
    • Mountain Aires.
    • New Cat.
    • 2.

  • Paul Leonard‐Morgan

    Linlithgow Palace from A History of Scotland

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Leonard‐Morgan.
    • A History of Scotland - music from the BBC series.
    • BBC.
    • 15.

  • Kjell Sønksen

    Whispers in the Woods

    Composer: Jonathan L'Esperance. Performer: Kjell Sønksen. Performer: Jonathan L'Esperance.
    • enjou.

  • Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

    Largo from Sinfonietta No 1

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • Perkinson: A Celebration.
    • Cedille.
    • 2.

  • La Louve

    Gratitude

    Performer: La Louve.
    • Dawn.
    • La Louve.
    • 9.

  • Hans Zimmer

    A Time of quiet between the storms (Dune II Suite)

    Orchestra: Odessa Orchestra & Friends. Conductor: Gavin Greenaway.
    • The World of Hans Zimmer - Part II: A New Dimension.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 9.

  • Robert Schumann

    Auf einer Burg (from Liederkreis) arr. cello & guitar

    Performer: Jerzy Chwastyk. Performer: Susanne Szambelan.
    • dichter.liebe. Works by Schumann & Catranis (Arr. for cello & guitar).
    • Prospero Classical.
    • 21.

  • Liam Taylor-West

    A Slow Breath

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Palmer.

  • Eren Onsoy

    If you must be going

    Performer: Eren Onsoy.
    • place to remind yourself of when you fall.
    • Eren Onsoy.
    • 3.

  • Christian Janssen

    According to His will

    • According to His will.
    • Piano Mosaic.
    • 1.

  • Cecil Armstrong Gibbs

    Dusk (Fancy Dress suite, Op 82 No 3)

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics, Vol. 1.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.

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