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Classical melodies to inspire calmness and clarity

A collection of soothing classical harmonies to help you find calm in your day.

A selection of soothing classical harmonies to help you find calm in your day.

With a relaxing selection of music by Antonín Dvořák, Léo Delibes and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, along with performances from VOCES8, the ѿý Symphony Orchestra and Anna Lapwood.

Produced by Katie Hill
An Overcoat Media Production for ѿý Radio 3 Unwind. MM

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Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33: Moderato assai quasi Andante - Thema

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • harmonia mundi.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Serse, HWV 40: Ombra mai fu

    Singer: Malena Ernman.
    • Roxy Recordings.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Trio: III. Moderato

    Performer: Angela Gassenhuber. Performer: Friedemann Kupsa. Performer: Renate Eggebrecht.
    • Troubadisc.
  • John Tavener

    Mother Of God, Here I Stand

    Lyricist: John Tavener. Lyricist: Mikhail Lermontov. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Lux.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.
  • Pau Casals

    El cant dels ocells (for Cello & Orchestra)

    Performer: Harriet Krijgh. Conductor: Gustavo Gimeno. Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland‐Pfalz.
    • Elegy.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 9.
  • Phil Cunningham

    The Gentle Light That Wakes Me

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Aly Bain. Performer: Phil Cunningham.
    • ѿýcoming - A Scottish Fantasy.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.
  • Michael Nyman

    The Heart Asks Pleasure First (From "The Piano")

    Performer: Ksenia Bashmet.
    • Quartz Music.
  • William Byrd

    Peccantem me quotidie a 5, T. 6 (Cantiones Sacrae, 1575)

    Lyricist: Anon.. Conductor: Owain Park. Choir: The Gesualdo Six.
    • Lux aeterna: A Sequence for the Souls of the Departed.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • William Grant Still

    Symphony No 1 (Afro-American) - 2nd mvt

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • Black Composer Series, Vol. 2: William Grant Still & Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (Re.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

    Conductor: Adrian Boult. Orchestra: New Symphony Orchestra of London.
    • Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a.
    • Violet Hill Records.
    • 3.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Variations Concertantes Sur Une Mélodie Suisse, Op. 20: Andante Sostenuto

    Performer: Daniele Orlando. Performer: Linda di Carlo.
    • Brilliant Classics Licensing BV.
  • Rebecca Dale

    There Will Come Soft Rains

    Composer: Sara Teasdale. Conductor: Nigel Short. Ensemble: Tenebrae.
    • Rebecca Dale: Night Seasons.
    • Signum Records.
    • 8.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 97 'The American': III. Larghetto

    Conductor: Krzysztof Chorzelski. Ensemble: Skampa Quartet.
    • Dvořák: American String Quartet & Quintet, Op. 96-97.
    • Champs Hill Records.
    • 7.
  • Karen Tanaka

    Children of Light: Crested Ibis

    Performer: Signe Bakke.
    • Crystalline - Piano Music by Karen Tanaka.
    • 2L.
    • 14.
  • Howard Shore

    The Shire

    Conductor: Howard Shore. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Choir: London Voices.
    • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - the Complete Recordings.
    • Rhino/Warner Records.
    • 2.
  • Léo Delibes

    Lakmé / Act 1: "Sous le dôme épais" (Flower Duet)

    Lyricist: Edmond Gondinet. Lyricist: Philippe Gille. Music Arranger: J. Bell. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth. Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra.
    • Vissi d'Arte - Opera for Orchestra.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.
  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    The Offering - IV. Tranquillo

    Performer: Benjamin Martin. Ensemble: Flinders Quartet.
    • The Offering.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 4.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Isle of Beauty

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, London. Conductor: Joseph Fort.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Partsongs.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 3.
  • Olivia Belli

    Grain Moon

    Performer: Olivia Belli.
    • Grain Moon.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite: III. Minuet Allegretto grazioso (Version for String Orchestra)

    Conductor: Julian Lloyd Webber. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • And the Bridge Is Love: English Music for Strings.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Alexis Ffrench

    Walk With Us (For Black Lives Matter)

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench.
    • Dreamland (Deluxe Edition).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 15.
  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet No. 2 in D Major: I. Allegro moderato

    Ensemble: Budapest Haydn Quartet.
    • Borodin: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Jóhann Jóhannsson

    They Being Dead Yet Speaketh (from Miners' Hymns), Part 1

    Conductor: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
    • Platoon.
  • Erik Satie

    Prélude de la porte héroïque du ciel

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.
    • Erik Satie: The Complete Solo Piano Music.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 7.
  • Karl Jenkins

    The Armed Man - A Mass For Peace: XII. Benedictus

    Performer: Guy Johnston. Conductor: Karl Jenkins. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Choir: National Youth Choir. Conductor: Mike Brewer.
    • Universal Music Operations Ltd.
  • Yiruma

    Kiss the Rain

    Performer: Martin Jacoby.
    • Concentration New Age Piano.
    • Silent Star Music.
    • 17.
  • Aaron Copland

    Appalachian Spring - 1945 Suite - 1. Very slowly

    Conductor: Zubin Mehta. Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic.
    • Copland: Fanfare For The Common Man / Barber: Adagio.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 2.
  • John Pickard

    3 Latin Motets: No. 1, O nata lux

    Choir: ѿý Singers. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • John Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sheep May Safely Graze

    Performer: Leon Fleisher. Music Arranger: Egon Petri.
    • Two Hands.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Max Richter

    Infra 4

    Performer: Louisa Fuller. Performer: Natalia Bonner. Performer: Nick Barr. Performer: Ian Burdge. Performer: Chris Worsey.
    • Infra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 6.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Andante festivo, JS 34b

    Conductor: Osmo Vänskä. Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra.
    • BIS.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Oboe Concerto, Op. 20: II. Andante

    Performer: Juliana Koch. Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
  • Gabríel Ólafs

    Filma Solo

    • Piano Works.
    • One Little Independent Records.
    • 6.
  • Frederick Delius

    3 Small Tone Poems: No. 3, Spring Morning

    Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Joanna Marsh

    Arabesques: III. Fading

    Conductor: Owain Park. Ensemble: ѿý Singers.
    • Arabesques: III. Fading.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.
  • Ulysses Kay

    Eight Inventions for Piano: II. Moderato

    Performer: Rochelle Sennet.
    • Bach To Black: Suites for Piano, Vol. II.
    • Albany Records.
    • 9.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Banquet Music In 3 Parts: Concerto In A Major, I. Largo

    Conductor: Reinhard Goebel. Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln.
    • Telemann: Tafelmusik.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 12.
  • Joseph Parry

    Myfanwy

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Decca Records.
  • Marianna Martines

    Concerto per Cembalo in G Major: II. Adagio

    Performer: Nicoleta Paraschivescu. Orchestra: La Floridiana.
    • Marianna Martines: La tempesta.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 5.
  • Rebecca Clarke

    Irish Melody (Emer's Farewell to Cucullain - "Londonderry Air")

    Performer: Vinciane Béranger. Performer: David Louwerse.
    • Rebecca Clarke: Works for Viola.
    • 貹é.
    • 8.
  • óԲ

    Fljótavík (Arr. Lawson for Ensemble)

    Composer: Georg Hólm. Composer: Kjartan Sveinsson. Composer: Orri Páll Dýrason. Lyricist: óԲ. Lyricist: Georg Hólm. Lyricist: Kjartan Sveinsson. Lyricist: Orri Páll Dýrason. Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Fljótavík (Arr. Lawson for Ensemble).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

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