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Peaceful Proms Special: Calming classical tunes

Enjoy a ‘peaceful Proms morning’ with this three hour collection of the most mindful classical pieces that have been performed at the ѿý Proms.

Enjoy a ‘peaceful Proms morning’ with this three hour collection of the most mindful classical pieces that have been performed at the ѿý Proms.

This mix includes Isobel Waller-Bridge’s The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse, featured at the 2024 21st Century Soundtracks Prom, as well as VOCES8’s cover of Radiohead’s Pyramid Song from the 2023 Mindful Mix Prom. Plus a whole host of well-known favourites from Edward Elgar, Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.

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

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Music Played

  • Jean Sibelius

    Belshazzar's Feast Suite, Op. 51: III. Nocturne

    Conductor: Pietari Inkinen. Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
    • Sibelius, J.: Night Ride and Sunrise / Belshazzar's Feast Suite / Kuolema.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Edward Elgar

    Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85 (Arr. for Viola and Orchestra)

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Elgar: Viola Concerto - Bloch: Suite for Viola and Orchestra.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 3.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Silence and Music

    Conductor: Paul McCreesh. Ensemble: Giovanni Gabrieli.
    • Silence & Music.
    • Signum Records.
    • 3.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Lieder ohne Worte I, Op. 19b: VI. Andante sostenuto

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Gunars Upatnieks. Ensemble: Schumann Quartett.
    • Blue Hour: Mendelssohn Edition.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Grace Williams

    Elegy

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes.
    • Welsh Music for Strings.
    • Rubicon.
    • 1.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    4 Novelletten, Op. 52: No. 3, Andante con moto

    Orchestra: South-West German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim. Conductor: Vladislav Czarnecki.
    • EBS.
  • Dora Pejačević

    Symphony in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 41: II. Andante sostenuto

    Conductor: Ari Rasilainen. Orchestra: Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz.
    • CPO.
  • Isobel Waller-Bridge

    The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse

    Composer: Charles Mackesy. Performer: Isobel Waller-Bridge.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
  • Ken Burton

    Many are the Wonders

    Ensemble: ORA Singers. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • harmonia mundi.
  • Léo Delibes

    Lakme: Flower Duet (Arr. for Violin and Strings)

    Music Arranger: Vivan Bhatti. Music Arranger: Ketan Bhatti. Performer: Esther Abrami.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 40: II. Largo

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 40 (1941 3rd Version): II. La.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Michael Tippett

    A Child of our Time, Part III: Preludium

    Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 / Act 2

    Lyricist: Lorenzo Da Ponte. Lyricist: Pierre Beaumarchais. Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (Complete Mozart Edition).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Nocturne (Arr. for Violin and Orchestra)

    Performer: Luka Faulisi. Conductor: Martyna Pastuszka. Orchestra: {oh!} Orkiestra.
    • Nocturne (Arr. for Violin and Orchestra by Matthias Spindler).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    Piano Quintet No. 1: III. Grave

    Performer: Ewa Kupiec. Conductor: Mariusz Smolij. Ensemble: Capella Bydgostiensis.
    • Bacewicz: Symphony for String Orchestra, Concerto for String Orchestra & Piano Q.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 20 No. 3: II. Menuetto. Allegretto

    Ensemble: London Haydn Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 20 \"Sun Quartets\".
    • Hyperion.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83: II. Adagio assai

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ludovic Morlot.
    • Ravel: Piano Concertos; Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain.
    • Hyperion.
  • Fela Sowande

    African Suite: II. Nostalgia: Andante

    Conductor: Paul Freeman. Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta.
    • African Heritage Symphonic Series, Vol. 1.
    • Cedille.
    • 7.
  • Lucy Walker

    Give Me Your Stars

    Composer: Sara Teasdale. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • TWENTY.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.
  • Frederick Delius

    2 Pieces for Small Orchestra: No. 1, On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

    Conductor: Vernon Handley. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Icon: Vernon Handley.
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 1.
  • Kristina Arakelyan

    Star Fantasy

    • Platoon.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op. 33a: No. 3, Moonlight

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • Warner Music UK Limited.
  • Clara Schumann

    3 Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22: I. Andante Molto

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: James Baillieu.
    • 3 Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22: I. Andante Molto (Arr. for Clarinet & P.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.
  • Peter Warlock

    Capriol Suite, 2. Pavane

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Fantasia on Greensleeves.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83: III. Andante

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra.
    • "Jeunehomme" - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 9 & 21 and other Piano Pieces.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 93.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Lyric Pieces, Book II, Op. 38: No. 3, Melody

    Performer: Håkon Austbø.
    • Grieg Piano Works.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 11.
  • Judith Weir

    I Love All Beauteous Things

    Composer: Robert Bridges. Choir: Christ Church Cranbrook.
    • Christ Church Cranbrook.
  • Yoko Shimomura

    Dearly Beloved

    Performer: Yoko Shimomura.
    • Universal Music Operations Ltd.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music, Suite No. 1, HWV 348: No. 6, Air

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi UK Limited.
  • Erik Satie

    Gymnopédie No. 1. Lent et douloureux

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.
    • Satie: The Complete solo piano music.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
  • George Walker

    Lilacs for Voice and Orchestra: I. When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd

    Performer: Latonia Moore. Lyricist: Walt Whitman. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Franz Welser‐Möst.
    • Walker: Antifonys, Lilacs, Sinfonias Nos 4 & 5.
    • Cleveland Orchestra.
    • 3.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Snow Maiden, Op. 12 "Snégourotchka": X. Melodrama

    Orchestra: Metamorphose String Orchestra. Conductor: Pavel Lyubomudrov.
    • Halidon.
  • Claude Debussy

    Rêverie, L. 68

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Zürcher Kammerorchester.
    • Belle Époque.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Edward MacDowell

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 15: II. Andante tranquillo

    Performer: Xiayin Wang. Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • MacDowell: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 03.
  • Robert Schumann

    Fantasiestucke, Op. 73: I. Zart und mit Ausdruck

    Performer: Lorraine Campet. Performer: Nathanaël Gouin.
    • Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 73: I. Zart und mit Ausdruck (Arr. for Double Bas.
    • 貹é.
    • 1.
  • Radiohead

    Pyramid Song

    Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson. Performer: Thomas Gould. Performer: Matthew Sharp. Performer: Eleanor Turner. Performer: Eleanor Turner. Ensemble: VOCES8. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Enchanted Isle.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 7.

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