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Energize your morning with inspiring classical melodies

Calming classical music to inspire focus and set you up for the day ahead. Presented by broadcaster, author and counselling psychologist Dr Sian Williams.

Calming classical music to help you focus and set you up for the day ahead. Presented by broadcaster, author and counselling psychologist Dr Sian Williams.

Featuring uplifting and enriching melodies from Bonds, Handel, and Einaudi, this episode explores the struggles of finding stillness in a busy, noise filled world. Plus, Professor Catherine Loveday explores why we might have evolved to love music.

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Music Played

  • Aaron Copland

    Appalachian Spring Suite (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Richard Stamp. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Das Jahr, H 385, (No 9 September: 'At The River')

    Performer: Anna Shelest.
    • Music & Arts.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra arr of No 7 Op 6, HWV 325 (2nd mvt)

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz. Ensemble: American String Quartet. Orchestra: New York Chamber Symphony.

  • Adolphus Hailstork

    Flute Set for Solo Flute (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Laurel Zucker.
    • Cantilena Records.

  • Hubert Clifford

    Shanagolden

    Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Ludovico Einaudi

    I Giorni

    Performer: Ludovico Einaudi.
    • Decca.

  • Hubert Parry

    Dear Lord and Father of Mankind

    Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band.
    • Bringins.

  • Edward Elgar

    Piano Quintet in A minor, Op 84 (2nd mvt)

    • The Classical Label.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Othello, Op 79 (4th mvt, 'The Willow Song')

    Conductor: Fawzi Haimor. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra.
    • Decca.

  • Amanda R枚ntgen-Maier

    Violin sonata in B minor (2nd movt)

    Performer: Cecilia Zilliacus. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • MATS WENDT.

  • Max Reger

    4 Tone Poems after Arnold B枚cklin, Op 128 (No 1, 'Der geigende Eremit')

    Performer: Klaudyna Schulze-Broniewska. Conductor: Ira Levin. Orchestra: Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt.
    • Naxos.

  • Pierre Francisque Caroubel

    Spagnolette

    Performer: Vincent Dumestre. Ensemble: Le Po猫me Harmonique.
    • ALPHA.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Emperor Quartet (2nd mvt)

    • Ultimate Classix.

  • Margaret Bonds

    The Ballad of the Brown King (7th mvt)

    Choir: The Dessoff Choirs. Orchestra: The Dessoff Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Merriweather.
    • AVIE.

  • Richard Addinsell

    Love on the Dole Suite (2nd mvt, 'Courting Couples')

    Conductor: Rumon Gamba. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Mel Bonis

    Gai Printemps, Op 11

    Performer: Dengin Ceyhan.

  • Ina Boyle

    Elegy

    Performer: Paul Meyer. Performer: Nad猫ge Rochat. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Weimar.
    • ARS.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    Still

    Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson. Choir: VOCES8.
    • DECCA.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in G major, M 83 (2nd mvt)

    • NFI.

  • Gustav Holst

    Invocation, No 2 Op 19

    Performer: Paul Watkins. Conductor: Andrew Davis. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Lilith Guegamian

    Air Indien

    Performer: Lilith Guegamian.
    • NFI.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia Concertante in E flat K364 (2nd mvt)

    • Best 4 Classical.

  • Benjamin Ingrosso

    En Dr枚m (a dream)

    Conductor: Alexander Hanson. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • RC10.

  • Lucien Durosoir

    Cinq aquarelles (No 4, 'Berceuse')

    Performer: Genevi猫ve Laurenceau. Performer: Lor猫ne de Ratuld.
    • ALPHA.

  • Clara Schumann

    Drei gemischte Ch枚re (3rd mvt, 'Gondoliera')

    Conductor: Julia Selina Blank. Choir: Kammerkoret Nova.

  • Karl Jenkins

    Palladio Reimagined (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Decca.

  • Percy Grainger

    The Merry King

    Conductor: Richard Hickox. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Quatuor No 12 Op 96 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Juan Carlos Rybin. Ensemble: Amati Quartet.
    • Blue Music.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    In the Bottoms (2nd mvt, 'His Song')

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • WB Music.

  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets Op 32

  • 脡lisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Violin Sonata No 6 in A major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Lina Tur Bonet. Performer: Patxi Montero. Performer: Kenneth Weiss.
    • Verso.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Masquerade Suite (2nd mvt, 'Nocturne')

    Conductor: Karen Surenovich Khachaturian. Orchestra: Radio鈥怲V USSR Symphony Orchestra.
    • Blaricum CD Company.

  • John Dowland

    Praeludium

    Performer: Jack Hancher.

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