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Unwind with flowing classical sounds

Calming musical light and shade to uplift your body and mind.

Calming musical light and shade to uplift your body and mind.

Featuring warm and reflective orchestral textures from George Butterworth, Eric Coates, and Edward Elgar. Plus sweet instrumental sounds by Rachel Portman, Chad Lawson, and Florence Price.

Produced by James C Taylor
An Overcoat Media production for BBC Sounds, MM.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Adolphus Hailstork

    3 Spirituals for Orchestra: No. 2, Kum Ba Ya

    Orchestra: Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • CLASSICAL SANCTUARY Vol. 1.
    • Naxos Special Projects.
    • 1.
  • Alexis Ffrench

    Glow

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench.
    • Grace.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.
  • William Lloyd Webber

    The Gardens at Eastwell "A Late Summer Impression"

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Music Arranger: Dimitri Soudoplatoff. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • Lloyd Webber: The Gardens at Eastwell (A Late Summer Impression).
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Chad Lawson

    Solace (Together)

    Performer: Chad Lawson. Performer: Seth Parker Woods. Lyricist: Rupi Kaur. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Solace (Together).
    • Chad Lawson Decca US.
    • 1.
  • Kodály Zoltán

    Epigrammák (Epigrams): No. 6, Andantino

    Performer: Lajos Lencsés. Music Arranger: Lajos Lencsés. Ensemble: Budapest Strings.
    • Farkas, F.: Aria E Rondo All'Ungherese / Ranki, G.: Don Quijote and Dulcinea / H.
    • Capriccio.
    • 6.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.5 in C sharp minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 5.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 4.
  • Rachel Portman

    Flight

    Performer: Anna Lapwood. Performer: Jess Gillam.
    • Flight.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Kerensa Briggs

    A tender shoot

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Owain Park.
  • Ronald Binge

    The Watermill

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson.
    • Binge: Watermill (The) / Scottish Rhapsody.
    • Marco-Polo.
    • 11.
  • Joe Hisaishi

    la pioggia

    Performer: Joe Hisaishi. Orchestra: Orchestra Città di Ferrara.
    • Songs of Hope: The Essential Joe Hisaishi Vol. 2.
    • Universal Music LLC.
    • 2.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    2 Pieces, Op. 10: No. 1, Nocturne in F Major

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Seasons (Deluxe Edition).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 16.
  • George Butterworth

    The Banks of Green Willow

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Krišs Russman.
    • Butterworth: Orchestral Works.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Gianni Schicchi, Act 1: "O mio babbino caro" (Lauretta)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon.
    • Un violon à Paris.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.
  • Elizabeth Poston

    Jesus Christ the Apple Tree

    Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Ensemble: Pembroke College Girls' Choir.
    • All Things Are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Records.
    • 2.
  • Jonathan Dove

    Stargazer: VI. The Milky Way

    Performer: Peter Moore. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Redmond.
    • Orchid Classics.
  • Florence Price

    Clouds

    Performer: Beatrice Nicholas.
    • Beatrice Nicholas.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia concertante in E flat - 2. Adagio

    Performer: John Anderson. Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Richard Watkins. Performer: Meyrick Alexander. Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Flute & Harp Concerto K.299; Sinfonia concertante K.297b.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 05.
  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Sonata No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 11: II. Aria.

    Performer: Llŷr Williams.
    • Piano Sonata No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 11: II. Aria. Senza passione, ma espres.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.
  • Eric Coates

    By The Sleepy Lagoon

    Performer: Martin Loveday. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • The Best Of British Light Music.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 14.
  • Ivo Antognini

    Those Tender Words

    Lyricist: Rumi. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Ivo Antognini: Come to Me in the Silence of the Night - Choral Works.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Magnolia, Pt. 2: Pt. 2, Mammy

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • Navona.
  • Sergey Akhunov

    Adagio: Prayer for Peace

    Performer: Roman Vikulov. Performer: Narinée Nanayane. Performer: Darya Filippenko. Performer: Olga Kalinova.
    • Prayer for Peace.
    • Aparté.
    • 5.
  • Hania Rani

    Sun

    Performer: Hania Rani.
    • Matthew Halsall t/a Gondwana Records.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux aurumque

    Ensemble: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis. Conductor: Tone Bianca Sparre Dahl.
    • Hymn to the Virgin.
    • 2L.
    • 4.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20 No. 1: III. Affettuoso e sostenuto

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Haydn: Sonnen-Quartette op.20.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 03.
  • Thomas Hewitt Jones

    Compline

    Performer: Thomas Hewitt Jones.
    • Vivum Music Ltd..
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15: II. Largo

    Performer: Stewart Goodyear. Conductor: Andrew Constantine. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
    • Orchid Music Limited.
  • Geoffrey Burgon

    Nunc dimittis (1979 A Cappella Version)

    Performer: Matilda Lloyd. Lyricist: Anonymous. Choir: The Gesualdo Six. Director: Owain Park.
    • Radiant Dawn.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.
  • Edward Elgar

    2 Chansons, Op. 15: No. 2, Chanson de matin

    Conductor: Andrew Davis. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.
    • Warner Music UK Limited,Warner Music UK Limited.
  • Gavin Luke

    Isle Royale

    Performer: Gavin Luke.
    • Isle Royale.
    • Aemeralds GmbH.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A Major, K. 622: II. Adagio

    Performer: Wenzel Fuchs. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Alan Gilbert.
    • Mozart: Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A Major, K. 622, II. Adagio.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings.
    • 1.
  • Rosey Chan

    Compassion

    Performer: Rosey Chan. Performer: Sonic Apothecary.
    • Rosey Chan.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Lieder ohne Worte I, Op. 19b: VI. Andante sostenuto "Venetian Gondola Song"

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Ensemble: Schumann Quartett. Conductor: Gunars Upatnieks.
    • Blue Hour: Mendelssohn Edition.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets Op. 32: II. Venus, The Bringer of Peace

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent.
    • Holst: The Planets - The Complete Suite (Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn,.
    • NE Selektive.
    • 2.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for Strings in G Minor, RV 157: II. Largo

    Conductor: Alberto Martini. Orchestra: Accademia I Filarmonici.
    • Vivaldi: Concertos for Strings.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • Lucy Walker

    Intuition

    Ensemble: BBC Singers.

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