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Elevate your evening 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 Rosey Chan, Sufjan Stevens and Nils Frahm. Plus, a chance to Press Pause with meditation teacher Michael James Wong, and some essential Wind Down Wisdom from science podcaster Caroline Steel on the benefits of being in your own company.

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Music Played

  • Charles Gounod

    Ave Maria (meditation on Bach's prelude in C)

    Performer: Mari Samuelsen. Performer: Julien Quentin.
    • Gounod: Ave Maria, CG 89a (After J.S. Bach: Prelude in C Major, BWV 846).
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Melodie (5 Fantasy pieces, Op 3 No 3)

    Performer: Kotaro Fukuma.
    • Fantasy.
    • Naxos.
    • 10.

  • Arthur Bliss

    Meditation 5: In green pastures (Meditations on a theme of John Blow)

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Bliss: Mary of Magdala, The Enchantress & Meditations on a Theme by John Blow.
    • Chandos.
    • 111.

  • John Blow

    Salvator mundi

    Performer: Timothy Byram-Wigfield. Performer: Hilary Brooks. Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Ensemble: Baroque Brass of London. Conductor: Martin Neary.
    • Croft: The Burial Service: Winchester Cathedral Choir/Neary.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 10.

  • Elliott Jack Sansom

    Melody To Freedom

    Performer: Elliott Jack Sansom.
    • Finding Beauty.
    • Decca.
    • 16.

  • Jean Cras

    Cello sonata (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Astrig Siranossian. Performer: Nathana毛l Gouin.
    • Invisibles.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 2.

  • A Blomqvist & Carlos Hof

    Que des Souvenirs

    • Que des Souvenirs.
    • Nordic Euphony Records.
    • 1.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 44 in E minor (Mourning) - 3rd mvt

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Gavotte with 6 variations

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • WAVES: Music by Rameau, Ravel, Alkan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Oliver Davis

    Coral Suite - II

    Ensemble: Beth & Flo. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Bateman.
    • Oliver Davis: Blue.
    • Signum Records.
    • 4.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quintet in G minor, K 516 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: John Crockatt. Ensemble: Consone Quartet.

  • Tony Woollard

    Icarus

    Performer: Tony Woollard.
    • Bigo & Twigetti.

  • Florence Price

    Adoration

    Music Arranger: Elaine Fine. Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Zhu Wang.
    • Decca.

  • Sufjan Stevens

    Reflexion

    Performer: Katia Lab猫que. Performer: Marielle Lab猫que. Performer: David Chalmin. Performer: Bryce Dessner.
    • Sonic Wires.
    • Universal Music Division Decca Records France.
    • 2.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Juliette Hurel. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • WARNER.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Ave Maria arr. for cello & piano

    Performer: Fulvia Mancini. Performer: Benjamin Engeli.
    • Passionate Cello & Piano Works.
    • Halidon.
    • 1.

  • Sophie Hutchings

    Dreaming The Stars

    Performer: Sophie Hutchings.
    • A World Outside.
    • Mercury Classics.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Die Nacht, D 983/4

    Choir: Sonat Vox. Conductor: Justus Merkel.
    • Animato.

  • Marta Cascales Alimbau

    Moonlit

    Performer: Marta Cascales Alimbau.
    • Moonlit.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Luise Adolpha Le Beau

    Symphony No 1 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Paterson.

  • Nils Frahm

    Ambre

    Performer: Nils Frahm.
    • ERASED TAPES RECORDS LTD.

  • J.J. Johnson

    Lament (arr. for violin & piano)

    Performer: Kristin Lee. Performer: Jeremy Ajani Jordan. Music Arranger: Jeremy Ajani Jordan.
    • American Sketches.
    • First Hand.
    • 6.

  • Tayla-Leigh Payne

    Meditation

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Parkinson.

  • Diana Yukawa

    For You

    • Spirals.
    • 1631 Recordings.
    • 14.

  • Rebecca Dale

    Paradisum Interlude (Materna Requiem)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Dale: Requiem For My Mother.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • Aphex Twin

    Avril 14th

    • Drukqs.
    • Warp Records.
    • 9.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Barcarolle (Tales of Hoffmann)

    Singer: Fatma Said. Singer: Marianne Crebassa. Orchestra: Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sascha Goetzel.
    • Kaleidoscope.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 7.

  • Phoria

    Nouveau-Ne (Re-Imagined)

    • Caught a Black Rabbit.
    • Akira Records.
    • 2.

  • John Barry

    The Beyondness of Things

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: John Barry.
    • Decca.

  • Akira Kosemura

    Looking in the same direction

    Performer: Akira Kosemura.
    • Rudy.
    • Schole Records.
    • 31.

  • Brandee Younger

    Brown Brown Baby

    Performer: Brandee Younger.
    • Serenity: A Collection Of Mindful Meditations.
    • Impulse!.
    • 6.

  • John Field

    Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat major (2nd mvt: Scottish Air, 'Within a mile of Edinburgh Town')

    Performer: Benjamin Frith. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: David Haslam.
    • Field: Piano Concertos, Nocturnes & Sonatas.
    • Naxos.
    • 102.

  • Six Missing

    On Being

    • Summer Folds.
    • Nettwerk Music Group.
    • 3.

  • Helen Ostafew

    A New Horizon

    Performer: Helen Ostafew.

  • Jon Uijtjens

    Melancholic Waves

    Performer: Jon Uijtjens.

  • Joey Roukens

    Silent Echoes

    Performer: Lucas Jussen. Performer: Arthur Jussen. Orchestra: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Karina Canellakis.
    • Study Focus 2022.
    • UMG Recordings, Inc..
    • 13.

  • Eleanor Dunnet

    Exhale

    Conductor: David Hill. Choir: 蜜芽传媒 Singers. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Concert Orchestra.

  • Rosey Chan

    Water is Life

    Performer: Rosey Chan.
    • Sonic Apothecary.
    • Rosey Chan.
    • 9.

  • Abilene

    Sweetest Rain

    • Winged Dreams.
    • Signum Records.
    • 6.

  • Mike Olsen

    Mayday

    • Falling Forward.
    • Hand Drawn Dracula.
    • 2.

  • John Ireland

    The Holy Boy

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: James Baillieu. Music Arranger: Lionel Tertis.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 5 Jan 2025 18:00
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  • Wed 29 Jan 2025 18:00
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  • Fri 4 Apr 2025 18:00
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  • Thu 26 Jun 2025 18:00
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