Lift your morning with revitilizing classical music
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 comforting and enriching melodies from Fanny Mendelssohn, Maurice Ravel, and JS Bach, this episode explores why listeners opinions of music changes when they think it has been composed by AI. Plus, Sian delights in a magnificent flowering magnolia.
On radio
Music Played
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Richard Addinsell
The Isle of Apples
Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn. Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra.- MARCO POLO.
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Rachel Portman
Tipping Points (3rd mvt, 'Water')
Performer: Niklas Liepe. Conductor: Erina Yashima. Orchestra: WDR Funkhausorchester.- SONY.
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Stewart Goodyear
Piano Sonata (2nd mvt)
Performer: Stewart Goodyear.- ORCHID CLASSICS.
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Barbara Strozzi
Che si può fare (What can I do?) arr for cello and orchestra
Performer: Anastasia Kobekina. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel.- SONY.
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Maurice Ravel
Daphnis et Chloe, M 57 (Troisieme partie: No 11)
Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.- THE CLASSICAL LABEL.
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Oliver Davis
Water Variations and Theme (Variation II)
Ensemble: Beth & Flo.- SIGNUM.
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Ernest John Moeran
Lonely Waters
Singer: Rebekah Coffey. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.- NAXOS.
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Daniel Elder
Elegy
Choir: Westminster Choir. Conductor: Joe Miller.- Westminster Choir College of Rider University.
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Hélène de Montgeroult
Piano Sonata No 9 in F sharp minor, No 3 Op 5 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Sarah Cahill.- FIRST HAND.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op 125, 'Choral' (3rd mvt)
Conductor: Manfred Honeck. Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.- REFERENCE RECORDINGS.
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Dobrinka Tabakova
Whispered lullaby
Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Evelyn Chang.- AVIE.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Job, a Masque for Dancing (Scene 5: 'Dance of the Three Messengers')
Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra.- WARNER.
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Franz Liszt
Years of Pilgrimage, Second Year: Italy (Venice and Naples: No 1, 'Gondoliera')
- THE CLASSICAL LABEL.
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Trevor Weston
Given Sound
Choir: Choir of Trinity Wall Street. Conductor: Julian Wachner.- ACIS.
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Cecil Forsyth
Viola Concerto in G minor (2nd mvt)
Performer: Lawrence Power. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra.- HYPERION.
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Alberto Giurioli
Endless Spring
Performer: Alberto Giurioli.- PLATOON.
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Eugène Dédé
Bees and Bumblebees, Op 562
Conductor: Reuben Blundell. Ensemble: Gowanus Arts Ensemble.- NEW FOCUS.
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Gerald Finzi
Love's Labour's Lost, Op 28 (1st mvt, 'So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not')
Conductor: Nicholas Collon. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra.- DECCA.
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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet No 25 in E major, No1 Op17 (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Aeolian Quartet.- THE CLASSICAL LABEL.
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Georgs Pelēcis
Flowering Jasmine
Performer: Gidon Kremer. Orchestra: Kremerata Baltica.- NONESUCH.
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Helena Munktell
Suite for Large Orchestra (3rd mvt)
Conductor: Tobias Ringborg. Orchestra: Gävle symfoniorkester.- STERLING.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Winter 3 from Recomposed By Max Richter (Vivaldi, 'The Four Seasons')
Composer: Max Richter. Performer: Daniel Hope. Conductor: André de Ridder. Orchestra: Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin.- DG.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
St Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (Part 1: No 1, 'Chorus')
- BEST 4 CLASSICAL.
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Takashi Yoshimatsu
Yume-Awase, Yume-Tagae, Op 74a (Within Dreams, Without Dreams)
Performer: Nanae Yoshimura. Ensemble: Pro Musica Nipponia.- CELESTIAL HARMONIES.
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Niccolò Paganini
Caprice No 24 in A minor for solo violin, Op 1
Performer: Itzhak Perlman.- WARNER.
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Arcade Fire
Some Other Place from the Original Score of Her (2013)
Composer: Owen Pallett. Ensemble: Arcade Fire.- MILAN.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Romance of the Prairie Lilies, Op.39
Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Leaper.- MARCO POLO.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
String Quartet in E flat major (3rd mvt, 'Romance')
Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.- ERATO.
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Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie
Coriolanus, Op 61 (2nd mvt, 'Marche funèbre')
Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra.- HELIOS.
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William Henry Harris
Faire is the Heaven
Choir: VOCES8. Choir: Apollo5. Conductor: Barnaby Smith.- VOCES8 RECORDS.
Broadcasts
- Tue 29 Apr 2025 09:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3 Unwind
- Sun 25 May 2025 09:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3 Unwind