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Ease into your day with welcoming harmonies

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 soothing and nourishing melodies from Clara Schumann, JS Bach and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – plus learn if listening to classical music can make you more intelligent, and Sian goes on a walk to explores how embracing the seasons can be beneficial for our health.

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Sat 4 Jan 2025 09:00

Music Played

  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ‘k

    Serenade for Strings in E major, Op.22 (IV. Larghetto)

    Performer: Archi di Santa Cecilia. Performer: Luigi Piovano.
    • ELOQUENTIA.
  • Frank Bridge

    Music When Soft Voices Die

    Performer: Tenebrae. Performer: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets, Op. 32 (Venus, the Bringer of Peace)

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • RPO/DE WOLFE.
  • Clara Schumann

    3 Romances, Op. 11 - No. 1, Andante

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Romance – The Piano Music of Clara Schumann.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Symphony No. 2 in One Movement, Op. 30: V. Adagio

    Performer: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Performer: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.
  • John Ireland

    The Holy Boy

    Performer: Sinfonia of London. Performer: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude, Fugue & Allegro for Lute in E flat major, BWV998 (I. Prelude)

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • DELPHIAN.
  • Adolphus Hailstork

    Symphony No.1 (II. Adagio: Lento ma non troppo)

    Performer: Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Performer: JoAnn Falletta.
    • NAXOS.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une infante dΓ©funte, M. 19 (Arr. Maganini for Flute and Harp)

    Performer: Markus Klinko. Performer: BenoΓt Fromanger.
    • ERATO.
  • Maurice Ravel

    PellΓ©as et MΓ©lisande (Suite symphonique) [Arr. J. Nott for Orchestra], Act 1: MΓ©

    Performer: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Performer: Jonathan Nott.
    • PENTATONE.
  • HΓ©lΓ¨ne de Montgeroult

    Piano Γ‰tude No. 37 in G Major

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • BIS.
  • John Foulds

    Isles of Greece

    Performer: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Performer: Ronald Corp.
    • (DUTTON/ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ).
  • Toru Takemitsu

    Nami no Bon (I. Tray of Waves)

    Performer: Sakkyo. Performer: Tadaaki Otaka.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Overture from La Traviata (Prelude to Act I)

    Performer: Magyar Állami OperahÑz zenekara. Performer: Iosif Conta.
    • CLASSICAL GALLERY.
  • Elfrida AndrΓ©e

    Four Piano Pieces: (I. Andantino)

    Performer: Oskar Ekberg.
    • DAPHNE.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Les BorΓ©ades / Act IV - EntrΓ©e de Polymnie (Live)

    Performer: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Performer: Marc Minkowski.
    • DG.
  • Sally Beamish

    In the Stillness

    Performer: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Performer: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Performer: Anna Lapwood.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Two Little Pieces (II. NoΓ«l)

    Performer: Craig Ogden.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Birds (Gli Uccelli): La Colomba

    Performer: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège. Performer: John Neschling.
    • BIS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 19: II. Adagio (Live)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra. Performer: GΓ‘bor TakΓ‘cs‐Nagy.
    • DG.
  • Betty Jackson King

    Four Seasonal Sketches for Piano: No. 1, Spring Intermezzo

    Performer: Samantha Ege.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Suite For Violin And String Orchestra, Op. 117 - 1. Country Scenery

    Performer: Esther Yoo. Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra. Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DG.
  • Mel Bonis

    Piece Op.189

    Performer: Juliette Hurel. Performer: Hélène Couvert.
    • ALPHA.
  • Franz Schreker

    Valse Lente

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
  • Arthur Bliss

    Kenilworth, F 13 (II. Serenade on the Lake)

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Performer: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Musick, Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: VI. Air

    Performer: Alfredo Bernardini. Performer: Zefiro.
    • ARCANA.
  • Louis Spohr

    Concertante in G Major for Violin and Harp, WoO 13 (Adagio)

    Performer: MarΓ­a DueΓ±as. Performer: Volker Kempf. Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker.
    • DG.
  • Morten Lauridsen

    O Nata Lux

    Performer: VOCES8.
    • DECCA.
  • Henriette ReniΓ©

    Harp Concerto in C Minor (II. Adagio)

    Performer: Emmanuel Ceysson. Performer: Orchestre national Avignon-Provence. Performer: Samuel Jean.
    • NAIVE.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Magnolia, Pt. 2 (IV. Mammy)

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • NAVONA.
  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de Nuit, Op.15 No.1

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • RPO/DE WOLFE.
  • Rebecca Dale

    Materna Requiem (6. Paradisum Interlude)

    Performer: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Clark Rundell.
    • DECCA.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Quintet in E-Flat Major, K. 407/386c: II. Andante

    Performer: Nash Ensemble.
    • PARLAPHONE.
  • Imogen Holst

    Variations on "Loth to Depart" (Theme)

    Performer: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Performer: Alice Farnham.
    • NMC.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Love's Labour's Lost Suite, Op. 28a: IX. Soliloquy No. 3, Dumaine's Poem

    Performer: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Performer: Howard Griffiths.
    • NAXOS.
  • CΓ©cile Chaminade

    Poèmes Provençal, Op. 127 (II. Solitude)

    Performer: Joanne Polk.
    • STEINWAY&SONS.
  • Ronald Binge

    The Watermill

    Performer: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Ernest Tomlinson.
    • NAXOS.
  • Rachel Portman

    The Duchess: End Titles

    Performer: Session Orchestra.
    • LAKESHORE RECORDS.
  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    6 Polish Songs, S. 480: II. FrΓΌhling (Arr. Liszt after Chopin, Op. 74 No. 2)

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Mariam Batsashvili.
    • WARNER.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64: III. Valse. Allegro moderato

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.
    • BERLIN PHILHARMONIC.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Romance for Violin, Op.39 (I. Larghetto)

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Chineke! Orchestra. Performer: Kevin John Edusei.
    • DECCA.

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