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Embrace the evening calm 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 Akira Koseumura, Rachel Portman and Debussy. Plus, a chance to Press Pause with therapist Helen Marie, and some essential Wind Down Wisdom from science podcaster Caroline Steel on the wellbeing benefits of feeling a sense of awe.

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Music Played

  • Thomas Adès

    Snow Globe (from Colette)

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • Colette (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Lakeshore Records.
    • 1.

  • Piotr Wiese

    Sateen

    Performer: Piotr Wiese.
    • Sateen EP.
    • Bigo & Twigetti.
    • 2.

  • Guirne Creith

    Violin concerto in G minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Geneviève Laurenceau. Orchestra: Orchestre de Picardie. Conductor: David Niemann.
    • Creith: Violin Concerto in G minor - II. Adagio con intimo sentimento.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Aria from Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, arr. for reed trio

    Music Arranger: Caitlin Broms-Jacobs. Ensemble: Tacamis Trio.
    • Leaf Music.

  • Akira Kosemura

    For Grandpa - Memory 4

    Performer: Akira Kosemura.
    • For Grandpa.
    • Universal Music LLC.
    • 4.

  • Eleanor Daley

    In paradisum (Requiem)

    Ensemble: Choir of Royal Holloway. Conductor: Rupert Gough.
    • Eleanor Daley: Requiem and other choral works.
    • Signum Records.
    • 8.

  • Claude Debussy

    Ballade

    Performer: Eline Marlene.
    • Debussy: Ballade, L. 70.
    • Télès Music.
    • 1.

  • William Grant Still

    Moon Dusk from Wood Notes

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Riley Court-Wood.

  • Rachel Portman

    The Swallow

    Performer: Niklas Liepe. Performer: Rachel Portman.
    • The Swallow.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Ciaccona from Trio sonata in G major, Op 2 No 12

    Performer: Eun-Shik Kim. Performer: Ryo Terakado. Performer: François Guerrier. Performer: Kaori Uemura.
    • L'apothéose De Corelli - Triosonatas.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 15.

  • Nick Martin

    Lamentoso from Vocalise

    Performer: Clare O'Connell.
    • Light Flowing.
    • NMC.
    • 10.

  • Zenobia Powell Perry

    Piano Potpourri - No. 12, Teeta

    Performer: Deanne Tucker.
    • Zenobia Powell Perry - Piano Works.
    • Cambria.
    • 13.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano concerto No 22 in E flat major, K 482 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jan Lisiecki. Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-Flat Major, K. 482: II. Andante.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Ombra mai fu (Serse, HWV 40) arr. for piano

    Performer: Martin Stadtfeld. Music Arranger: Martin Stadtfeld.
    • Serse, HWV 40: Ombra mai fu (Arr. for Piano).
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.

  • Fiona Brice

    Trails of Light

    Performer: Fiona Brice.
    • Bigo & Twigetti.

  • Erik Satie

    Gnossienne No 3

    Performer: Xuefei Yang. Music Arranger: Francis Kleynjans.
    • Chapeau Satie.
    • Platoon.
    • 3.

  • Bernard Herrmann

    Souvenir de Vouyage (3rd mvt - Canto amoroso)

    Ensemble: Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble.
    • Antarctica Records.

  • JB Dunckel

    Melo Walk (Version for String Quintet)

    Performer: Cécile Tête. Performer: Shuichi Okada. Performer: Grégoire Vecchioni. Performer: Cyrille Lacrouts.
    • Paranormal Music Chamber.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Robert Gromotka & Jonas Hain

    Tides and Shallows

    • Between Us.
    • Neue Meister.
    • 4.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    Song 20

    Performer: Jeremy West. Ensemble: The King’s Singers.
    • Head Space: Candlelight.
    • Signum Records.
    • 7.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Morning (Peer Gynt suite No 1, Op 46)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.

  • Undine Smith Moore

    Andante from Afro-American Suite

    Ensemble: Mallarmé Chamber Players.
    • Songs for the Soul.
    • Albany Records.
    • 1.

  • Liam Taylor-West

    A Slow Breath

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Palmer.

  • Domenico Zipoli

    Elevazione

    Performer: Caroline Dale. Performer: John Anderson. Orchestra: London Metropolitan Orchestra.
    • Such Sweet Thunder.
    • Dharma Records.
    • 11.

  • Gibran Alcocer & Juan Arenosa

    Oblivion

    • Oblivion.
    • Aemeralds GmbH.
    • 1.

  • Constant Lambert

    Saraband for the Followers of Virgo (Horoscope, ballet suite)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: David Lloyd‐Jones.
    • Lambert: Horoscope – Bliss: Checkmate – Walton: Façade.
    • Hyperion.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Una furtiva lagrima (L'elisir d'amore)

    Composer: Alexandre Batta. Performer: Sol Gabetta. Performer: Irina Zahharenkova.
    • Lise Cristiani.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 2.

  • Jóhann Jóhannsson

    Odi et Amo / Krokodill

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Jóhann Jóhannsson: Piano Works – From Englabörn.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.

  • Debbie Wiseman

    Wilde Suite

    Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic. Conductor: Dirk Brossé.
    • Debbie Wiseman - Music For Film and Television.
    • Silva Screen Records.
    • 1.

  • Naresh Sohal

    Lila part 5: Ether

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Naresh Sohal: Violin Concerto & Lila.
    • Heritage Records.
    • 5.

  • Pauline Oliveros

    Grains

    Performer: Pauline Oliveros.
    • The Roots Of The Moment.
    • hatOLOGY.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No 6 in D major, Op 60 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Jaime Martín.

  • John Tavener

    Song for Athene

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: David Hill.

  • Zoe Dixon

    Meditation

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major, Op 19 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • Beethoven Complete Piano Concertos Lewis - Belohlavek.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 5.

  • Clemens Christian Poetzsch

    Noctune: 4. Porto

    Performer: Clemens Christian Poetzsch.
    • Noctune.
    • Neue Meister.
    • 4.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song without words in E flat major, Op 30 No 1

    Performer: Elizaveta Ivanova. Performer: Sanja Bizjak.

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