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Embrace your morning with reviving classical music

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

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

Featuring inspiring and soothing melodies from Cecilia McDowall, Carl Maria von Weber and William Alwyn. In this episode Sian explores the benefits of heading outside without your phone, and Professor Catherine Loveday reveals how music can influence the levels of certain chemicals in the brain...

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Music Played

  • Pietro Mascagni

    Cavallerina Rusticana: Intermezzo

    Performer: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Alexander Rahbari.
    • Naxos.

  • Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor, Adagio

    Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Warner.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 73, J. 114: II. Adagio ma non troppo

    Performer: JΓΆrg Widmann. Performer: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Performer: Peter Ruzicka.
    • Orfeo.

  • Lucy Walker

    There is no rose

    Performer: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers.
    • ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ.

  • Valerie Coleman

    Four Legends: III. Gaia

    Performer: Khanyisile Mthetwa.

  • Margaret Bonds

    Montgomery Variations: VI. Lament

    Conductor: Kellen Gray. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • Linn Records.

  • Alexis Ffrench

    At Last

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench.
    • Sony.

  • Sir John Blackwood McEwen

    Viola Concerto: II. Allegretto grazioso

    Performer: Lawrence Power. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.

  • Amy Beach

    Romanza

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Guild GmbH.

  • Florence Price

    An Elf on a Moonbeam

    Performer: Anna Lapwood.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Air on a G String

    Performer: HAUSER. Performer: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Ziegler.
    • Sony.

  • May Mukle

    Two Fancies: No. 1, The Hamadryad

    Performer: Catherine Wilmers. Performer: Simon Marlow.
    • Decca.

  • Julius P. Williams

    Fantasy in G for Violin & Chamber Orchestra (The Gospel Train)

    Performer: Petr Zdvihal. Performer: Julius P. Williams. Orchestra: Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Albany.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 30: No. 1 in E-Flat Major. Andante espressivo, MWV U 103

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • Sony.

  • Cecilia McDowall

    3 Latin Motets: I. Ave regina

    Performer: Stephen Layton. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge.
    • Hyperion.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No.20 In D Minor - Romance

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • EXTREME.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Suite Pastorale: III. Sous-bois

    Performer: Les SiΓ¨cles. Performer: FranΓ§ois‐Xavier Roth.
    • Mirare.

  • Carl Engel

    Sea-Shell (Arr. E. Zimbalist for Violin & Piano)

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

  • Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D Major, Hob. I:104 "London": II. Andante (Live)

    Orchestra: Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: GΓ‘bor TakΓ‘cs‐Nagy.
    • DG.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    10 Preludes, Op. 23: No. 4 in D Major: Andante cantabile

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • UMG.

  • Joseph Jongen

    Violin Concerto in B Minor, Op. 17: II. Adagio, molto espressivo

    Performer: Philippe Graffin. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: Antwerp Symphony Orchestra.
    • Hyperion.

  • Kurt Atterberg

    Symphony No. 8, Op. 48: III. Molto vivo

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Federico Moreno Torroba

    Suite Castellana: III. Danza

    Performer: Pablo Villegas.
    • Naxos.

  • Susan Spain-Dunk

    Lament for string orchestra

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra.
    • ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ.

  • Florence Price

    Honeysuckle (A Southern Sky)

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Guild Music.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on "Greensleves"

    Performer: Barry Wordsworth. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra.
    • ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ.

  • Howard Ferguson

    Piano Concerto, Op. 12: II. Theme and Variations

    Performer: Mark Bebbington. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Howard Williams.
    • SOMM.

  • Poldowski

    Violin Sonata in D Minor: I. Andante languido

    Performer: Clare Howick.
    • Naxos.

  • Andrew Marvell

    See How the Earth

    Composer: Ross Lee Finney. Performer: Conspirare. Performer: Craig Hella Johnson.
    • Naxos.

  • Wilhelm Peterson‐Berger

    FrΓΆsΓΆblomster I, Op. 16: VI. Vid FrΓΆsΓΆ kyrka

    Performer: Niklas SivelΓΆv.
    • Naxos.

  • William Alwyn

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

    Ensemble: Rasumovsky Quartet.
    • Dutton.

  • Ronald Binge

    Elizabethan Serenade

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

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