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Get set for the day with uplifting music

Calming classical music to inspire focus and set you up for the day ahead. Presented by broadcaster, author and psychologist Dr Sian Williams.

Calming classical music to help you focus and set you up for the day ahead. Presented by broadcaster, author and psychologist Dr Sian Williams.

Featuring uplifting and enriching melodies from Rachmaninov, Florence Price, and Frederick Delius, this episode explores the joy of getting lost on a countryside walk. Plus, Professor Catherine Loveday explains why some music gives us a shiver down our spines.

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Music Played

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vocalise

    Performer: 麻豆约拍 Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Andrew Davis.

  • Peter Warlock

    Capriol Suite - 5. Pied-en- l'air

    Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Nicholas Kraemer.
    • Decca.

  • Frank Bridge

    Cradle Song, H 96

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • Chandos.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Two Elegiac Melodies, Op 34: II - The Last Spring

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • De Wolfe Ltd.

  • Franz Liszt

    Ludus pro Patria: La Nuit et l'Amour: Interlude de l'ode symphonique - Ludus pro

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Naxos.

  • Shara Nova

    I Have Never Loved Someone: I Have Never Loved Someone (Arr. for Choir by Nate T

    Performer: Conspirare. Performer: Craig Hella Johnson.
    • Naxos.

  • Franz Liszt

    Consolation No. 3 in D-Flat Major, S. 172

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Naxos.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Andante Cantabile from String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11 (Arr. Leopold Sto

    Performer: Matthias Bamert. Orchestra: 麻豆约拍 Philharmonic.
    • Chandos.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    5 Fantasiest眉cke for String Quartet, Op. 5: No. 2, Serenade

    Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Sony.

  • Arvo P盲rt

    Spiegel im Spiegel - For Clarinet And Piano

    Performer: Alexei Lubimov. Performer: Kirill Rybakov.
    • ECM.

  • John Foulds

    A Gaelic Dream-Song, Op. 68

    Performer: Ronald Corp. Performer: 麻豆约拍 Concert Orchestra.
    • Dutton Epoch.

  • Richard Strauss

    Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments in E flat major, Op. 7

    Performer: Fran莽ois Leleux. Ensemble: Ensemble 脿 vent Paris Bastille.
    • Sony.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Le Tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: III. Menuet

    Performer: Marc Soustrot. Performer: Aarhus Symfoniorkester.
    • Danacord Records.

  • Edward Elgar

    Mina

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Onyx.

  • Zenobia Powell Perry

    Pavanne

    Performer: Josephine Gandolfi.
    • Cambria.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Ambarvalia Op.70

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Peebles.
    • SOMM.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467 - Andante

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • De Wolfe.

  • Lars鈥怑rik Larsson

    Pastoral Suite, Op. 19 - 2. Romance. Adagio

    Performer: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • UMG.

  • Clara Schumann

    Soir茅es musicales, Op. 6: II. Notturno. Andante con moto (Version for Harp)

    Performer: Magdalena Hoffmann.
    • DG.

  • Florence Price

    Piano Concerto in one movement (Adagio cantabile)

    Performer: Jeneba Kanneh鈥怣ason. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Leslie Suganandarajah.
    • Decca.

  • Wilhelm Peterson鈥怋erger

    Fr枚s枚blomster I, Op. 16: VI. Vid Fr枚s枚 kyrka

    Performer: Niklas Sivel枚v.
    • Naxos.

  • Frederick Delius

    3 Small Tone Poems: No 3, Spring Morning

    Performer: Hall茅. Performer: Mark Elder. Performer: Lyn Fletcher. Performer: Hall茅 Choir.
    • Halle Concerts Society.

  • Edward Elgar

    Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85 (Arr. for Viola and Orchestra by Lionel Tertis

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Orchestra: 麻豆约拍 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • harmonia mundi / 麻豆约拍.

  • Regina Harris Baiocchi

    Piano Poems: IV. A candle burns time

    Performer: Sarah Cahill.
    • First Hand Records.

  • Ronald Binge

    Trade Winds

    Performer: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Ernest Tomlinson.
    • Naxos.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No.5 in E Flat Major, Op 73: Emperor: 2 - Adagio Un Poco Mosso

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • De Wolfe.

  • William Grant Still

    Lyric Quartette: I. The Sentimental One

    Performer: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Azica Records.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Introit in F Major, Op 6

    Performer: Mari Samuelsen. Performer: Julien Quentin. Performer: Scoring Berlin. Performer: Jonathan Stockhammer.
    • Universal Music Operations Ltd.

  • Olivia Belli

    Sapias

    Performer: Mari Samuelsen. Performer: Julien Quentin. Performer: Scoring Berlin. Performer: Jonathan Stockhammer.
    • Universal Music Operations Ltd.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    Sanctus (London)

    Performer: Tenebrae.
    • Decca.

  • Robert de Vis茅e

    Pieces in C minor - Prelude

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • BIS.

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