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Peaceful melodies for ultimate relaxation

Relax into this collection of classical music, carefully chosen to bring you peace.

Press play and enjoy three hours of peaceful classical music, hand-picked to aid your relaxation.

Featuring glowing orchestral tones from Edouard Lalo and Ronald Binge, choral delights from Alonso Lobo and J.S. Bach, as well as soothing piano trios from Mel Bonis and Judith Lang Zaimont. Plus, recent releases from Tenebrae, Kotaro Fukuma, and Vittorio Forte, all paired with transporting soundscapes from the natural world.

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An Overcoat Media Production for ѿý Radio 3 Unwind. MM

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  • Édouard Lalo

    Symphonie espagnole in D Minor, Op. 21: IV. Andante

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • Lalo, Saint-Saens & Sarasate: Violin Concertos.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 4.
  • Karl Jenkins

    Palladio Reimagined: 2. Largo

    Conductor: Karl Jenkins. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Palladio Reimagined: 2. Largo.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 1.
  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    A Good Night

    Ensemble: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • A Good Night.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.
  • Léo Delibes

    Lakmé / Act 1: "Sous le dôme épais"

    Lyricist: Edmond Gondinet. Lyricist: Philippe Gille. Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Vissi d'Arte - Opera for Orchestra.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.
  • Mel Bonis

    Soir et matin, Op. 76: I. Soir

    Ensemble: Neave Trio.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
  • Poppy Ackroyd

    Murmurations

    Performer: Anna Lapwood.
    • Firedove.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 12.
  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Concierto de Aranjuez: II. Adagio

    Performer: Raphaël Feuillâtre. Orchestra: Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Gábor Takács‐Nagy. Orchestra: Verbier Festival Orchestra.
    • Spanish Serenades.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
  • Caroline Shaw

    ...and the Swallow

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • A Prayer for Deliverance.
    • Signum Records.
    • 4.
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 5, No. 2: II. Largo

    Performer: Rachel Barton Pine. Orchestra: Encore Chamber Orchestra.
    • Meude-Monpas / Saint-Georges / White / Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concertos by Bla.
    • Cedille.
    • 5.
  • Jo Yeong-wook

    Recollection (From "Nine Puzzles")

    Composer: Yeom Heesu. Performer: Jo Yeong-wook.
    • Nine Puzzles (Original Soundtrack).
    • Hollywood Records.
    • 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen, D 343 (arr for choir)

    Performer: Julius Drake. Music Arranger: Christian Georg. Choir: Vokalensemble. Conductor: Klaas Stok.
    • NDR Vokalensemble.
  • Amy Beach

    Piano Concerto in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 45: III. Largo

    Performer: Danny Driver. Conductor: Rebecca Miller. Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Beach, Chaminade & Howell: Piano Concertos (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto.
    • Hyperion.
  • Johann Pachelbel

    Suite for Lute in F-Sharp Minor (Arr. for Guitar)

    Performer: Göran Söllscher.
    • Eleven String Baroque.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
  • Quincy Jones

    The First Letter (From "The Color Purple")

    Composer: J. Lubbock. Composer: Rod Temperton. Composer: Jorge Calandrelli. Performer: Quincy Jones. Conductor: Dick Hazard.
    • The Color Purple (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Qwest Records IGA.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    10 Chorale Preludes, BV B 27: No. 2, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme

    Performer: Kotaro Fukuma. Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni.
    • Music for Pets.
    • Naxos Special Projects.
    • 1.
  • Ronald Binge

    The Watermill

    Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson. Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Binge: Watermill (The) / Scottish Rhapsody.
    • Marco-Polo.
    • 11.
  • Carlos Simon

    Warmth from Other Suns: Settle

    Conductor: Carlos Simon. Ensemble: Carlos Simon Collective.
    • Together.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 7.
  • Robert Schumann

    Liederkreis, Op. 39: No. 5, Mondnacht (Arr. for Cello & Piano)

    Performer: Daniel Müller‐Schott. Performer: Robert Kulek.
    • Schumann: Werke für Violoncello und Klavier.
    • Orfeo.
    • 3.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Symphony No. 5, Op. 64: II. Andante

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Gipps: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 6.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Introit, Op. 6

    Performer: Thomas Gould. Conductor: Nicholas Collon. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 9.
  • George Walker

    Lyric for Strings (Remastered)

    Conductor: Paul Freeman. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Black Composer Series, Vol. 7: William Grant Still, Fela Sowande & George Walker.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 5.
  • William Byrd

    Ave Verum Corpus

    Conductor: Timothy Brown. Ensemble: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge.
    • Reflection - Choral Music from Clare College Cambridge.
    • Heritage Records.
    • 14.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltzes, Op. 34: No. 2 in A Minor, B. 64

    Performer: Vittorio Forte.
    • OnClassical.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker, Op. 71, TH 14: Act II: No. 14, Pas de deux. Intrada

    Conductor: Leonard Slatkin. Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.
    • The Nutcracker, Op. 71, TH 14.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 10.
  • Edward Elgar

    Violin Concerto in B Minor, Op. 61: II. Andante

    Performer: Nicolas Dautricourt. Conductor: Frédéric Chaslin. Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales.
    • Elgar: Violin Concerto & Salut d'amour - Delius: Suite.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 2.
  • Justin Hurwitz

    Mia and Sebastian's Theme (From "La La Land")

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Cinema.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Robert Lowry

    Shall We Gather at the River

    Ensemble: VOCES8. Ensemble: Ringmasters.
    • Windows: Reimaginings by Blake Morgan.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 5.
  • Imogen Holst

    Variations on "Loth to Depart": Theme

    Performer: Alice Farnham. Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra.
    • Imogen Holst: Discovering Imogen.
    • NMC Recordings Limited.
    • 2.
  • Hideyuki Hashimoto

    Afterglow

    Performer: Hideyuki Hashimoto.
    • Time.
    • XXIM Records.
    • 4.
  • Philip Herbert

    Elegy (In Memoriam Stephen Lawrence)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Parnther.
    • NMC Recordings.
  • Yann Tiersen

    Comptine d'un autre été: L'après-midi

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • Voyage.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • Judith Lang Zaimont

    Serenade (version for piano trio)

    Performer: Awadagin Pratt. Performer: Melissa White. Performer: Paul Wiancko.
    • Navona.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Johannes-Passion, BWV 245, Pt. 2: No. 39, Chor. "Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine

    Conductor: Edward Higginbottom. Orchestra: Capricorn. Choir: Choir of New College Oxford.
    • Agnus Dei Volumes 1 & 2.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 14.
  • Rita Strohl

    Solitude (Arr. for Violin and Piano)

    Music Arranger: Esther Abrami. Ensemble: Esther Abrami & Kim Barbier.
    • Solitude (Arr. for Violin and Piano by Esther Abrami).
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D Major, Op. 76 No. 5, II. Largo cantabile e mesto

    Performer: Dóra Kokas. Performer: Katalin Kokas. Performer: Noemi Gyori. Performer: Péter Bársony.
    • Hungaroton.
  • Alonso Lobo

    Versa est in luctum

    Ensemble: Ensemble Plus Ultra.
    • From Spain To Eternity - The Sacred Polyphony Of El Greco's Toledo.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 1.

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