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Float away into a world of classical calm

Relax into this 3 hour mix of calming classical music chosen to help you unwind.

Press play and enjoy relaxing into this 3 hour mix of calming classical music chosen carefully to help you unwind.

Featuring orchestral favourites from Georges Bizet and Edward Elgar, along with restful piano from Montague Ring and Maurice Ravel and soothing choral tones from Stephen Foster and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, plus recent releases from Esther Abrami, Nicholas Daniel and Anna Shelest, all paired with soothing soundscapes from the natural world.

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

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Music Played

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Violin Concerto No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 61, R. 198: II. Andantino quasi allegretto

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • Lalo, Saint-Saens & Sarasate: Violin Concertos.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 7.
  • Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel

    Symphony in E-Flat Major, Op. 11 No. 3, StWV 127/3: II. Andante

    Conductor: Johannes Moesus. Orchestra: South-West German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim.
    • CPO.
  • Henry Purcell

    Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts

    Lyricist: Anon.. Conductor: Matthias Maute. Choir: Ensemble ArtChoral.
    • Art choral vol. 2: Baroque I.
    • Les Disques ATMA Inc..
    • 5.
  • Anne Dudley

    Medhel an Gwyns

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Irene Delgado-Jiménez.
    • Women.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 7.
  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen Suite No. 1: III. Intermezzo

    Conductor: Marko Letonja. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg.
    • Spatial Audio - The 3D Orchestral Collection.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 12.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Isle of Beauty

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, London. Conductor: Joseph Fort.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Isle of Beauty.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 1.
  • Roderick Elms

    Visions of St Anne - Symphony for Orchestra: III. Lamentosa

    Conductor: Barry Wordsworth. Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra.
    • Roderick Elms: Visions of St Anne and Other Orchestral Works.
    • Signum Records.
    • 10.
  • Teresa Carreño

    Mi Teresita "Little Waltz" (Arr. for Violin and Orchestra)

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Music Arranger: Jan-Peter Klöpfel. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Irene Delgado-Jiménez.
    • Women.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 13.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30: II. Intermezzo. Meno mosso (Excerpt)

    Performer: Yunchan Lim. Orchestra: Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30: II. Intermezzo. Adagio (E.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Madeleine Dring

    3 Pieces for Oboe & Piano: No. 1, Waltz

    Performer: Antonio Oyarzabal. Performer: Nicholas Daniel.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
  • Stephen Foster

    Slumber, My Darling

    Music Arranger: Blake Morgan. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Windows: Reimaginings by Blake Morgan.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 1.
  • Claude Debussy

    Beau soir, CD 84 (Performed on Harp & Saxophone)

    Performer: Alis Huws. Performer: Jess Gillam.
    • Long Nights and Starry Skies.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, B. 178, "From the New World": II. Largo

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7-9.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
  • Cecilia McDowall

    Music of the Stars: III. The Gift to Sing

    Conductor: George Vass. Orchestra: Orchestra Nova. Ensemble: Choir of Royal Holloway.
    • Cecilia McDowall: Cantatas.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 11.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Andante Cantabile for Cello and String Orchestra

    Performer: Timo-Veikko Valve. Conductor: Richard Tognetti. Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: Serenade and Andante Cantabile / Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony.
    • ABC Classic.
    • 5.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Menuet, M. 42

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 8.
  • Anthony R. Green

    The Green Double: II. Dance Reflections

    Orchestra: Lowell Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Orlando Cela.
    • Navona.
  • Olivia Belli

    Limina Luminis

    Performer: Anna Lapwood.
    • Limina Luminis.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Lauri Porra

    Utu

    Performer: Lauri Porra. Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
    • Platoon.
  • Rebecca Dale

    true love

    Performer: Ben Russell. Performer: Richard Harwood. Performer: Klara Romac. Performer: Tom Walley. Performer: Olivia Jageurs. Ensemble: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Rebecca Dale: Night Seasons.
    • Signum Records.
    • 3.
  • Franz Liszt

    Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173: No. 9. Andante lagrimoso

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Liszt: Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 22.
  • Joby Talbot

    Ink Dark Moon

    Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Gernon.
    • The Moon & The Forest.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.
  • Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge

    Columbine (Carnival, Suite of 5 dances, No 4)

    Performer: Rochelle Sennet.
    • Bach To Black: Suites for Piano, Vol. II.
    • Albany Records.
    • 52.
  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de nuit, Op.15 No.1

    Conductor: Sir Mark Elder. Orchestra: Hallé.
    • Elgar Wand of Youth.
    • Halle Concerts Society.
    • 23.
  • Maurice Duruflé

    Quatre Motets, Op. 10: Tantum ergo

    Choir: Truro Cathedral Choir.
    • Duruflé: Complete Sacred Choral Works.
    • Lammas.
    • 13.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15: I. Maestoso

    Performer: Emmanuel Despax. Conductor: Andrew Litton. Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra.
    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15: I. Maestoso (Radio Edit).
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.
  • Benjamin Britten

    A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: There Is No Rose

    Performer: Sally Pryce. Conductor: David Temple. Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Ensemble: Crouch End Festival Chorus.
    • A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: There Is No Rose.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1.
  • Florence Price

    Piano Quintet in A Minor: II. Andante con moto

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Das Jahr, H. 385: IX. September: At the River. Andante con moto

    Performer: Anna Shelest.
    • Donna Voce Vol. 2: Women of Legend.
    • Music and Arts Programs of America.
    • 09.
  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F Major, D. 803: II. Adagio

    Ensemble: Les Solistes OSM.
    • Schubert: Octet in F Major, D. 803.
    • Groupe Analekta, Inc.
    • 2.
  • Sylvius Leopold Weiss

    Passacaille

    Performer: Göran Söllscher. Music Arranger: Göran Söllscher.
    • Eleven String Baroque.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Claude Debussy

    Suite bergamasque, L. 75: III. Clair de lune

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Nightfall.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 4.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, BWV 1041: II. Andante

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Ensemble: Mutter’s Virtuosi.
    • Bach, Bologne, Previn, Vivaldi, Williams.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 5.
  • Alexis Ffrench

    Photographs

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench.
    • Memories.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Philip Herbert

    Elegy (In Memoriam Stephen Lawrence)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Parnther.
    • NMC Recordings.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Cantique de Jean Racine

    Lyricist: Jean Racine. Choir: University of Washington Chorale. Conductor: Giselle Wyers.
    • Resonant Streams: Choral Music from Sun to Sea.
    • MSR Classics.
    • 5.

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