Classical melodies to inspire calmness and clarity
A collection of soothing classical harmonies to help you find calm in your day.
A selection of soothing classical harmonies to help you find calm in your day.
With a relaxing selection of music by AntonΓn DvoΕΓ‘k, LΓ©o Delibes and Samuel Coleridge Taylor, along with performances from VOCES8, the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra and Anna Lapwood.
Produced by Katie Hill
An Overcoat Media Production for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 Unwind. MM
On radio
Music Played
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33: Moderato assai quasi Andante - Thema
Performer: JeanβGuihen Queyras. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: JiΕΓ BΔlohlΓ‘vek.- harmonia mundi.
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George Frideric Handel
Serse, HWV 40: Ombra mai fu
Singer: Malena Ernman.- Roxy Recordings.
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Germaine Tailleferre
Trio: III. Moderato
Performer: Angela Gassenhuber. Performer: Friedemann Kupsa. Performer: Renate Eggebrecht.- Troubadisc.
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John Tavener
Mother Of God, Here I Stand
Lyricist: John Tavener. Lyricist: Mikhail Lermontov. Ensemble: VOCES8.- Lux.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 5.
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Pau Casals
El cant dels ocells (for Cello & Orchestra)
Performer: Harriet Krijgh. Conductor: Gustavo Gimeno. Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie RheinlandβPfalz.- Elegy.
- CapriccioNR.
- 9.
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Phil Cunningham
The Gentle Light That Wakes Me
Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Aly Bain. Performer: Phil Cunningham.- ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔcoming - A Scottish Fantasy.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 12.
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Michael Nyman
The Heart Asks Pleasure First (From "The Piano")
Performer: Ksenia Bashmet.- Quartz Music.
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William Byrd
Peccantem me quotidie a 5, T. 6 (Cantiones Sacrae, 1575)
Lyricist: Anon.. Conductor: Owain Park. Choir: The Gesualdo Six.- Lux aeterna: A Sequence for the Souls of the Departed.
- Hyperion.
- 7.
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William Grant Still
Symphony No 1 (Afro-American) - 2nd mvt
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Freeman.- Black Composer Series, Vol. 2: William Grant Still & Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (Re.
- Sony Classical.
- 2.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Conductor: Adrian Boult. Orchestra: New Symphony Orchestra of London.- Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a.
- Violet Hill Records.
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Louise Farrenc
Variations Concertantes Sur Une MΓ©lodie Suisse, Op. 20: Andante Sostenuto
Performer: Daniele Orlando. Performer: Linda di Carlo.- Brilliant Classics Licensing BV.
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Rebecca Dale
There Will Come Soft Rains
Composer: Sara Teasdale. Conductor: Nigel Short. Ensemble: Tenebrae.- Rebecca Dale: Night Seasons.
- Signum Records.
- 8.
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AntonΓn DvoΕΓ‘k
String Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 97 'The American': III. Larghetto
Conductor: Krzysztof Chorzelski. Ensemble: Skampa Quartet.- DvorΜΓ‘k: American String Quartet & Quintet, Op. 96-97.
- Champs Hill Records.
- 7.
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Karen Tanaka
Children of Light: Crested Ibis
Performer: Signe Bakke.- Crystalline - Piano Music by Karen Tanaka.
- 2L.
- 14.
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Howard Shore
The Shire
Conductor: Howard Shore. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Choir: London Voices.- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - the Complete Recordings.
- Rhino/Warner Records.
- 2.
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LΓ©o Delibes
LakmΓ© / Act 1: "Sous le dΓ΄me Γ©pais" (Flower Duet)
Lyricist: Edmond Gondinet. Lyricist: Philippe Gille. Music Arranger: J. Bell. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra.- Vissi d'Arte - Opera for Orchestra.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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Elena KatsβChernin
The Offering - IV. Tranquillo
Performer: Benjamin Martin. Ensemble: Flinders Quartet.- The Offering.
- Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Isle of Beauty
Choir: Choir of Kingβs College, London. Conductor: Joseph Fort.- Coleridge-Taylor: Partsongs.
- Delphian Records.
- 3.
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Olivia Belli
Grain Moon
Performer: Olivia Belli.- Grain Moon.
- Sony Classical.
- 1.
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John Ireland
A Downland Suite: III. Minuet Allegretto grazioso (Version for String Orchestra)
Conductor: Julian Lloyd Webber. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.- And the Bridge Is Love: English Music for Strings.
- Naxos.
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Alexis Ffrench
Walk With Us (For Black Lives Matter)
Performer: Alexis Ffrench.- Dreamland (Deluxe Edition).
- Sony Classical.
- 15.
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Alexander Borodin
String Quartet No. 2 in D Major: I. Allegro moderato
Ensemble: Budapest Haydn Quartet.- Borodin: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2.
- Naxos.
- 1.
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JΓ³hann JΓ³hannsson
They Being Dead Yet Speaketh (from Miners' Hymns), Part 1
Conductor: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.- Platoon.
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Erik Satie
PrΓ©lude de la porte hΓ©roΓ―que du ciel
Performer: JeanβYves Thibaudet.- Erik Satie: The Complete Solo Piano Music.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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Karl Jenkins
The Armed Man - A Mass For Peace: XII. Benedictus
Performer: Guy Johnston. Conductor: Karl Jenkins. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Choir: National Youth Choir. Conductor: Mike Brewer.- Universal Music Operations Ltd.
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Yiruma
Kiss the Rain
Performer: Martin Jacoby.- Concentration New Age Piano.
- Silent Star Music.
- 17.
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Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring - 1945 Suite - 1. Very slowly
Conductor: Zubin Mehta. Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic.- Copland: Fanfare For The Common Man / Barber: Adagio.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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John Pickard
3 Latin Motets: No. 1, O nata lux
Choir: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.- John Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times.
- Naxos Music UK Ltd.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Sheep May Safely Graze
Performer: Leon Fleisher. Music Arranger: Egon Petri.- Two Hands.
- Sony Classical.
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Max Richter
Infra 4
Performer: Louisa Fuller. Performer: Natalia Bonner. Performer: Nick Barr. Performer: Ian Burdge. Performer: Chris Worsey.- Infra.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
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Jean Sibelius
Andante festivo, JS 34b
Conductor: Osmo VΓ€nskΓ€. Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra.- BIS.
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Ruth Gipps
Oboe Concerto, Op. 20: II. Andante
Performer: Juliana Koch. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.- Chandos Records Limited.
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OLAFSSON GABRIEL OERN
Filma Solo
Performer: GabrΓel Γlafs.- Piano Works.
- One Little Independent Records.
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Frederick Delius
3 Small Tone Poems: No. 3, Spring Morning
Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.- Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring.
- Naxos.
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Joanna Marsh
Arabesques: III. Fading
Conductor: Owain Park. Ensemble: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers.- Arabesques: III. Fading.
- Signum Records.
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Ulysses Kay
Eight Inventions for Piano: II. Moderato
Performer: Rochelle Sennet.- Bach To Black: Suites for Piano, Vol. II.
- Albany Records.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Banquet Music In 3 Parts: Concerto In A Major, I. Largo
Conductor: Reinhard Goebel. Ensemble: Musica Antiqua KΓΆln.- Telemann: Tafelmusik.
- Archiv Produktion.
- 12.
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Joseph Parry
Myfanwy
Performer: Sheku KannehβMason.- Decca Records.
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Marianna Martines
Concerto per Cembalo in G Major: II. Adagio
Performer: Nicoleta Paraschivescu. Orchestra: La Floridiana.- Marianna Martines: La tempesta.
- Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
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Rebecca Clarke
Irish Melody (Emer's Farewell to Cucullain - "Londonderry Air")
Performer: Vinciane BΓ©ranger. Performer: David Louwerse.- Rebecca Clarke: Works for Viola.
- ΄‘±θ²Ή°ω³ΩΓ©.
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΄³Γ³²Τ²υΎ±
FljΓ³tavΓk (Arr. Lawson for Ensemble)
Composer: Georg HΓ³lm. Composer: Kjartan Sveinsson. Composer: Orri PΓ‘ll DΓ½rason. Lyricist: ΄³Γ³²Τ²υΎ±. Lyricist: Georg HΓ³lm. Lyricist: Kjartan Sveinsson. Lyricist: Orri PΓ‘ll DΓ½rason. Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson. Ensemble: VOCES8.- FljΓ³tavΓk (Arr. Lawson for Ensemble).
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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