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Chilled classical music for rest and rejuvenation

Take a moment to step away from your cares with this calming mix of serene classical sounds.

Take a moment to step away from your cares with this calming mix of serene classical sounds.

Featuring music by Gustav Mahler, Anne Boyd and Edward Elgar, plus rich and rejuvenating harmonies by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Reynaldo Hahn and Robert Nathaniel Dett.

Produced by James C Taylor
An Overcoat Media production for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 Unwind, MM

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Sat 28 Dec 2024 06:00

Music Played

  • Erik Satie

    GymnopΓ©die No. 1

    Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Orchestrator: Jérôme Ducros. Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Conductor: Adrien Perruchon.
    • Satie: Masterpieces.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Gabriel FaurΓ©

    FaurΓ©: PellΓ©as et MΓ©lisande, Op. 80: 4. Sicilienne

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Faure: PellΓ©as et MΓ©lisande.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 4.
  • Christian Forshaw

    Abide With Me

    Composer: Henry Francis Lyte. Composer: William Henry Monk. Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • When Sleep Comes: Evening Meditations for Voices & Saxophone.
    • Signum Records.
    • 12.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Sadko: Hindu Song

    Performer: JΓ‘nos BΓ‘lint. Performer: NΓ³ra Mercz. Music Arranger: NΓ³ra Mercz.
    • Naxos.
  • Franz Schubert

    Ave Maria, S. 558/12

    Performer: Lang Lang. Music Arranger: Franz Liszt.
    • Liszt - My Piano Hero.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.
  • George Butterworth

    Two English Idylls: No. 1

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Grant Llewellyn.
    • Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow; A Shropshire Lad/ /McGunn: The Land of t.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.
  • Florence Price

    Piano Quintet in E minor: II. Andante

    Performer: Michelle Cann. Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered, Vol. 2: Florence B. Price.
    • Azica Records.
    • 21.
  • Edward Elgar

    Lux aeterna [from 'Nimrod' of 'Enigma' variations]

    Music Arranger: John Cameron. Choir: VOCES8.
    • Lux.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.
  • William Grant Still

    Lyric Quartette: I. The Sentimental One

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered, Vol. 3: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, William Grant Still & George Walk.
    • Azica Records.
    • 01.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia On Greensleeves

    Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Vaughan Williams: Fantasia On "Greensleeves"; The Lark Ascending / Delius: Two P.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench. Music Arranger: Alexis Ffrench.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
  • Claude Debussy

    Beau soir - Arr. for Bassoon and Piano

    Performer: Sophie Dervaux. Performer: SΓ©lim Mazari.
    • EDEL Music & Entertainment GmbH.
  • Henriette ReniΓ©

    Harp Concerto in C Minor: II. Adagio

    Performer: Emmanuel Ceysson. Orchestra: Orchestre national Avignon-Provence. Conductor: Samuel Jean.
    • Believe International.
  • Anna Lapwood

    O Nata Lux

    Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Ensemble: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Ensemble: Pembroke College Girls' Choir.
    • All Things Are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Records.
    • 3.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No. 12 in F major, K332 - II. Adagio

    Performer: Maria JoΓ£o Pires.
    • Mozart: Piano Sonatas K.309, K.332 & K.570.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 5.
  • Max Richter

    Dream 3 (in the midst of my life)

    Performer: Ben Russell. Performer: Yuki Numata Resnick.
    • From Sleep.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Edward Elgar

    Sospiri, Op. 70

    Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • The World Of Elgar.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 18.
  • Dora PejačeviΔ‡

    Blumenleben: 2. Veilchen

    Performer: Nataőa Veljković.
    • CPO.
  • Luke Howard

    Dappled Light

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • Howard: Dappled Light.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • EΜ„riks Ešenvalds

    O Salutaris Hostia

    Performer: Lelde Šmīdberga. Performer: Marta Elizabete Smilga. Choir: Youth Choir Kamer.... Conductor: Jurģis Cābulis.
    • Northern Echoes.
    • Prima Classic.
    • 5.
  • Claude Debussy

    RΓͺverie, CD 76

    Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber. Music Arranger: David Cullen. Conductor: James Judd. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Cello Moods.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: II. Air

    Performer: Xuefei Yang. Music Arranger: Xuefei Yang.
    • Bach Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 15.
  • William Henry Harris

    Faire is the heaven

    Lyricist: Edmund Spenser. Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • A New Heaven.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 3.
  • Peggy Glanville-Hicks

    Sonata For Harp: 2. Pastorale

    Performer: Marshall McGuire.
    • Resonances: Music For Harp.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 38.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto No.5 in F minor (2nd & 3rd mvts)

    Performer: David Fray. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Bach: Piano Concerto No. 5, BWV 1056.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Cello Sonata: II. Andante sostenuto

    Performer: Diana Ambache. Performer: Rebecca Knight.
    • Ambache Recordings / NAXO.
  • Ernest Tomlinson

    Little Serenade

    Orchestra: Pro Arte Orchestra. Conductor: George Weldon.
    • British Composers: Best of British.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.
  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon in D Major

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
  • Tarik O’Regan

    I Listen To The Stillness of You

    Ensemble: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers.
  • Hania Rani

    La Luce

    Performer: Mari Samuelsen. Performer: Hania Rani. Performer: Dobrawa Czocher. Ensemble: Scoring Berlin. Conductor: Jonathan Stockhammer.
    • LYS.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 13.
  • Edgar Bainton

    Five English Nursery Tunes: IV. Curly Locks

    Composer: Hubert Clifford. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Chandos.
  • George Walker

    Prelude

    Performer: Ricky Pageot.
    • Music of George Walker.
    • NWCRI.
    • 8.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16: 2. Adagio

    Performer: Stephen Kovacevich. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Grieg / Schumann: Piano Concertos.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4: Sinfonia

    Composer: Martin Luther. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Choir: Monteverdi Choir.
    • SDG.
  • Vincenzo Bellini

    Norma, Act I: Casta Diva

    Performer: Jan Vogler. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Omer Meir Wellber.
    • Norma, Act I: Casta Diva (Arr. for Cello & Orchestra by Jan Vogler) (Radio Edit).
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.
  • Nancy Dalberg

    String Quartet No. 1 in D Minor: III. Adagio

    Ensemble: Nordic String Quartet.
    • Dalberg: The String Quartets.
    • Dacapo.
    • 3.
  • Margaret Bonds

    Credo: No. 2, I Believe

    Performer: Lara Downes.
    • Bonds: Credo: No. 2, I Believe.
    • Rising Sun Records.
    • 1.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Andante Cantabile from String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Chandos Records.
  • Harry Burleigh

    From the Southland Suite: V. On Bended Knees

    Performer: Rochelle Sennet.
    • Bach To Black: Suites for Piano, Vol. II.
    • Albany Records.
    • 27.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40

    Performer: Benjamin Frith. Orchestra: Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: RΓ³bert StankovskΓ½.

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