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Glowing harmonies for peace and reflection

Calming classical sounds to lift your mood, and uplift your body and mind.

Calming classical sounds to lift your mood, and uplift your body and mind.

Featuring warm and reflective instrumental textures from Fauré, Bach, and Silvestrov, plus shimmering vocal harmonies by Caroline Shaw, Eric Whitacre, and Georgy Sviridov.

Produced by James C Taylor
An Overcoat Media production for ѿý Sounds. MM.

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1 hour, 60 minutes

Music Played

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80: 1. Prélude. Quasi Adagio

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
  • Claude Debussy

    Rêverie, L. 68

    Performer: François‐Joël Thiollier.
  • Ken Burton

    A Prayer

    Ensemble: ѿý Singers.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    Cello Concerto No. 1 In C Major, G. 477: II. Largo

    Performer: Timothy Hugh. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Flute Sonata in B-Flat Major, WoO Anh.4: III. Largo

    Performer: Enzo Caroli. Performer: Anna Martignon.
  • Caroline Shaw

    And the Swallow

    Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Ensemble: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Ensemble: Pembroke College Girls' Choir.
  • Florence Price

    Snapshots Moon Behind a Cloud

    Performer: Samantha Ege.
  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Nocturne-serenade, Op. 45

    Performer: Tianwa Yang. Orchestra: Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra. Conductor: Ernest Martínez Izquierdo.
  • Georgy Sviridov

    Canticles & Prayers, Having Beheld a Strange Nativity: No. 11, Glory (Quiet)

    Conductor: Sigvards Kļava. Lyricist: Anon.. Choir: Latvian Radio Choir.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Trumpet Concerto In E Flat - Ii Andante

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth.
  • Richard Wagner

    Wesendonck-Lieder, WWV 91: V. Träume

    Performer: Alexandre Da Costa. Ensemble: Utrecht String Quartet. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Halle. Conductor: Josep Caballé‐Domenech.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Melodie from "Orfeo ed Euridice" (Dance of the Blessed Spirits)

    Performer: Evgeny Kissin. Music Arranger: Giovanni Sgambati.
  • Vincent d’Indy

    Suite de Karadec, Op. 34b: II. Chanson

    Orchestra: Jean-François Paillard Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jean‐François Paillard.
  • Ennio Morricone

    Gabriel's Oboe from The Mission (Excerpt)

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Orchestra: Roma Sinfonietta. Conductor: Ennio Morricone.
  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    Bachianas brasileiras No. 5: I. Aria (Cantilena): Adagio

    Performer: Plínio Fernandes. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason.
  • Alexis Ffrench

    Guiding Light

  • Eric Whitacre

    Sleep

    Ensemble: Eric Whitacre Singers. Conductor: Eric Whitacre. Lyricist: Charles Anthony Silvestri.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Cello Sonata, FP 143: II. Cavatine

    Performer: Daniel Müller‐Schott. Performer: Robert Kulek.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria

    Performer: Lang Lang.
  • Valentin Silvestrov

    Stille Musik

  • William Byrd

    Ave verum corpus - Motet

    Conductor: Harry Christophers. Lyricist: Anon.. Choir: The Sixteen.
  • Henry Purcell

    King Arthur, 'The British Worthy': II. Air

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Lyricist: John Dryden. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Quintet, Op. 1: II. Larghetto

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
  • Hania Rani

    Dreamy

  • Marianna Martines

    Concerto per Cembalo in G Major: II. Adagio

    Performer: La Floridiana. Performer: Nicoleta Paraschivescu.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    8 Bible Vignettes: No. 2, Desert Interlude

    Performer: Michael Lee.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    3 Chorales, P. 167: No. 3, Andante

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.