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Classical Unwind

Calming classical music to help you focus and set you up for the day ahead.

3 hours

Last on

Mon 15 Sep 202509:00
BBC Radio 3 Unwind

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Handel: "Will the Sun Forget to Streak" from Oratorio 'Solomon', HWV 67

    Music Arranger: Andreas N. Tarkmann. Orchestra: Sinfonia Varsovia.
    • New Seasons - Händel für Oboe und Orchester.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 16.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne No. 8 in D-Flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2

    • Sony Classical.

  • Lucy Walker

    Give Me Your Stars

    Composer: Sara Teasdale. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • TWENTY.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • John Rutter

    Suite Lyrique (3rd mvt, Aria)

    Performer: Catrin Finch. Orchestra: Sinfonia Cymru. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • DG.

  • Philip Glass

    Mishima/Closing (String Quartet No 3, 'Mishima')

    Ensemble: Attacca Quartet.
    • Of All Joys.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 10.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Piano Trio No 2 in A minor (2nd mvmt, Lento)

    Ensemble: Trio Aralia.
    • Entre deux mondes.
    • Initiale.
    • 107.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Petite Suite de Concert

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Bramwell Tovey.

  • Amanda Röntgen-Maier

    Six Pieces for Violin & Piano: III. Lento (Arr. for Violin & Harp by Esther Abra

    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.

  • William Lloyd Webber

    Nocturne

    Performer: John Lill. Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber.
    • ASV.

  • Carl Baermann

    Clarinet Quintet No. 3, Op. 23: Adagio

    • Chandos.

  • César Franck

    Prélude, Fugue et Variation, Op. 18: I. Prélude. Andantino

    • Sony Classical.

  • Jorge Calandrelli

    Calandrelli: Solitude (Arr. Campbell)

    Lyricist: Jorge Calandrelli. Music Arranger: Paul Campbell.
    • Mercury Classics.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Fantasia in D Minor, K. 397

    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Richard Wagner

    5 Gedichte fur eine Frauenstimme, WWV 91 "Wesendonck-Lieder": No. 5, Traume - Ve

    • Believe International.

  • Olivia Belli

    Ithaca Suite: II. Telemachus

    • Sony Classical.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Kuolema (Scene with Cranes)

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Anna Yarbrough

    Thirteen Moons

    • Lime Blue Music Limited.

  • Anne Crosby Gaudet

    Music, When Soft Voices Die

    • Anne Crosby Gaudet.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Variations on a rococo theme, Op 33 (Variation 3)

    Performer: Edgar Moreau. Orchestra: Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Michael Sanderling.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Edward Elgar

    Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20: 2 - Larghetto

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO).

  • Fumio Miyashita

    See The Light (Abridged)

    • Domo Records, Inc.

  • Ferruccio Busoni

    Concerto in D Major, Op. 35a: II. Quasi andante

    • Chandos Records Limited.

  • Fergus McCreadie

    Forest Floor

    Performer: Fergus McCreadie. Performer: David Bowden. Performer: Steve Henderson.

  • Margaret Bonds

    Bright Star (Arr. for String Quartet by Ellie Consta)

    • Her Ensemble.

  • Carlos Simon

    Hold Fast to Dreams

    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Ludovico Einaudi

    Passaggio

    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Judith Weir

    O Viridissima

    Ensemble: Hebrides Ensemble.
    • Airs from Another Planet: Chamber Music and Songs by Judith Weir.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 8.

  • Somei Satoh

    Birds In Warped Time II

    • AVIE Records.

  • Dardust

    Mon Coeur, Béton Brut (Piano Solo)

    • Masterworks.

  • Arcade Fire & Owen Pallett

    Song on the Beach

    • Masterworks.

  • Witold Lutosławski

    3 Fragmente: II. Ulysse en Itaque

    • Sony Classical.

  • Poppy Ackroyd

    Quail

    • One Little Independent Records.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Andante in F, 'Andante favori' WoO57

    Performer: Alexander Gadjiev.

  • Adrien de la Salle

    Mosaic

    Composer: Francois Mathian.
    • Little Symphony Records.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sinfonia (3-Part Invention) No. 11 in G Minor, BWV 797 (Transcr. for

    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

Broadcast

  • Mon 15 Sep 202509:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind