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Ashes special - Keep calm at the cricket

As the Ashes comes to an end, fill your empty nights with the gentle sounds of music, bat and ball.

As the Ashes 2025/26 comes to an end, you might need something gentle and restorative to help you get through those emptier nights...

Pad up and rock back to the sound of a gentle cricket match playing out on the village green, accompanied by classical music that will bowl you over - an immersive soundscape to deliver a peaceful state of rest.

Sleep Tracks on BBC Radio 3 Unwind combines soothing classical music and calming nature sounds to help you relax into sleep. Search 'Sleep Tracks' on BBC Sounds to enjoy more episodes.

Produced by Alice Boyd, Joy Nkoyo and Jack Howson.

A Peanut & Crumb production for BBC Radio 3 Unwind.

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Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Psalm 23 - The Lord Is My Shepherd

    • The Classical Label.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker The Magic Spell Begins

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

  • Jelle Dittmar

    Greatness Awaits (Main)

    • Refractions.
    • BMG.

  • Rosie Doonan

    Hush Now

    Composer: Shane Durrant.
    • Lullabies.
    • The Nerve.

  • Nigel Mullaney

    Catch The Light

    Composer: Jonathan Jowett.
    • Natural Soundscapes.
    • De Wolfe.

  • Scott Rockwell

    A Very English Rose

    Composer: Edward Josephs.
    • The Nerve.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Midsummer Night's Dream - Nocturne

    • Mendelssohn Vol. 1.

  • George Butterworth

    The Banks of Green Willow

    Conductor: Grant Llewellyn. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow; A Shropshire Lad/ /McGunn: The Land of t.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • Lukas Obernosterer

    Sleep Of Faith

    Composer: Bruce Fingers. Composer: Billie Ray Fingers.
    • Dreams 2.

  • Paul Reeves

    Dusk

  • Gustav Holst

    Brook Green Suite: II. Air

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Leigh O'Hara.
    • Fide et literis.
    • EMF Endeavours.
    • 6.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Four Seasons - Summer (B)

    • Best 4 Classical.

  • Richard Harvey

    Sanctity (a)

  • Henry Francis Lyte

    Abide With Me

    Composer: William Henry Monk.
    • BPM Classical Series.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1: 13. Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)

    Performer: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • The Classical Label.

  • Florian Seraul

    Quaint Moments

    • The Soft Life.
    • Stereoscopic Music Publishing.

  • Garry Judd

    The Field/Haze Effect

  • Dominik Luke Marsden Johnson

    Finding Paradise

    • Finding Paradise.

  • John Thomas

    The Minstrel's Adieu To His Native Land

    • BPM Classical Series.

  • Alexis Ffrench

    Singing Planet

    • Cavendish.

  • Jelle Dittmar

    Reunited (Main)

    Performer: Jelle Dittmar.
    • Refractions.
    • Neogarde.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Suite pastorale: 1. Idylle

    Performer: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
    • The Classical Label.

  • James Edward Collins

    Sleep Walk

    • Cavendish.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Lyric Pieces, Op.68: 3. At your feet

    Performer: Peter Jablonski.
    • Grieg: Vocal Music Collection.
    • The Classical Label.

  • Ivo G. de Jong

    Leaves

    Composer: Michiel Jenner. Performer: Lavandou.
    • Ambient: Music For Brilliance.
    • Microcosmic.

  • Jono Buchanan

    Calm Thoughts

  • Anon.

    Sum in aliena provincia

    • BPM Classical Series.

  • Mike Beever

    There Is A Hope

    Performer: Mike Beever.
    • A Song A Day II.
    • Neogarde.

  • Kazimir Boyle

    Between Raindrops

    Performer: Kazimir Boyle.
    • Nature Sounds for Relaxation.
    • Microcosmic.

  • David Skidmore

    Don't Ask

    Composer: Peter Martin. Composer: Sean Connors. Composer: Robert Dillon. Performer: NEOGARDE. Performer: Third Coast Percussion. Performer: David Skidmore.
    • Third Coast Percussion - Cinematic Marimba.
    • BMG Production Music.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Masques et Bergamasques: Pastorale

    Performer: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
    • The Classical Label.

  • Roland Chadwick

    Wistful Serenade

    • Liftmusic Factual.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.
    • Warner Music UK Limited.

  • Edvard Grieg

    The First Meeting

    • Grieg - Peer Gynt Suites Erotik.
    • Bruton Classical Series.

  • Julius Steffaro

    Summer Hills

    • De Wolfe.

  • Henry Purcell

    The Married Beau: 2. Slow Air

    Performer: Lucerne Festival Strings.
    • Mixed Collection.
    • The Classical Label.

  • Siegfried Friedrich

    Darkness Over Empty Fields

    • Elbroar.

  • Franz Schreker

    Night Piece (From 'The Distant Sound')

    • BBC Singers & Players.

  • Frederick Delius

    The Walk to the Paradise Garden

    • ULTIMATE CLASSIX.

  • Thom Robson

    Softly Drifting

    • Inner Peace.
    • At The Studios - Moods.

Broadcast

  • Friday00:30
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind

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