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Ease into your day with relaxing 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 beautiful tunes from Franz Schubert, Emilie Mayer and J.S Bach, we join Sian on a visit to a duck pond. Plus, Professor Catherine Loveday explores the parallels between music and language.

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Music Played

  • Gerald Finzi

    A Severn Rhapsody, Op. 3

    Performer: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • Naxos.

  • John Metcalf

    Calm

    Composer: David Roche. Performer: Â鶹ԼÅÄ National Orchestra of Wales.

  • Alexander Scriabin

    Deux poèmes, Op. 32: I. Andante cantabile

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • DG.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker (Suite), Op. 71a, TH. 35: IId. Arabian Dance (Coffee)

    Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • DG.

  • Dora Bright

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in A Minor: II. Intermezzo - Andante espressivo

    Performer: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Sara Ward.
    • SOMM.

  • Frank Ticheli

    Earth Song

    Performer: The Atlanta Singers.
    • ACA.

  • William Grant Still

    Seven Traceries: A Suite for Solo Piano: IV. Out of the Silence

    Performer: Rochelle Sennet.
    • Albany.

  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Concierto de Aranjuez: II. Adagio

    Performer: Xavier de Maistre.
    • Sony.

  • Undine Smith Moore

    Afro-American Suite: Adagio ma appassionato

    Performer: Mallarmé Chamber Players.
    • Albany.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 1 in C Major, Op 15: Largo

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.

  • Angela Morley

    Venturing Forth (From "Watership Down")

    Performer: John Wilson Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Vocalion.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    French Suite No. 6 in E Major, BWV 817 III Sarabande

    Performer: Murray Perahia.

  • Louis Glass

    Sommerliv Suite, Op. 27: II. Forest Idyll

    Performer: Daniel Raiskin. Performer: Rheinische Philharmonie.
    • CPO.

  • Alice Mary Smith

    Symphony in A Minor II. Andante

    Performer: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • Chandos.

  • Karl Jenkins

    Requiem - IX Pie Jesu

    Performer: West Kazakhstan Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • UMG.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Five Negro Melodies for Piano Trio, I Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

    Performer: Neave Trio.
    • Chandos.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturnes, Op 15: No 2 in F Sharp Major, Larghetto

    Performer: Jan Lisiecki.
    • DG.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Peter and the Wolf, Op 67: The Duck, the Cat

    Performer: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Naxos.

  • L. Viola Kinney

    Mother's Sacrifice

    Performer: Maria Corley.
    • Albany Records.

  • Florence Price

    Serenata Concertante for Clarinet and Small Orchestra, III Choral

    Performer: Â鶹ԼÅÄ National Orchestra of Wales.

  • Florence Price

    Elfentanz

    Performer: Randall Goosby.

  • Luise Adolpha Le Beau

    Concert Overture, Op 23

    Performer: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No 9 in D, Andante con espessione

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Decca.

  • Will Todd

    My Lord Has Come

    Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Decca.

  • Emilie Mayer

    Symphony No 2 in E Minor, II Scherzo

    Performer: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Leo McFall.
    • CPO.

  • Jay Ungar

    Ashokan Farewell

    Performer: The Ayoub Sisters.
    • Decca.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata No 13 in A, D664: I Allegro moderato

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • DG.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Andante appassionato in F Major, B. 40a

    Performer: Takács Quartet.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia Suite, Op. 11 - II. Ballade (Tempo di menuetto)

    Performer: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Neeme Järvi.

  • Gustav Holst

    Jupiter

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

  • Susan Spain-Dunk

    Suite in B Minor for String Orchestra - II Interlude

    Conductor: Douglas Bostock. Orchestra: South-West German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim.
    • Chandos.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 25 Nov 2024 09:00
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  • Sat 7 Dec 2024 09:00
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  • Thursday 09:00
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