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Slow down with calming classical music

Niall Breslin brings you calming classical music to help you release the stresses of the day, recharge and prepare to rest.

Three hours of calming classical music to help you release the stresses of the day, recharge and prepare to rest - presented by Irish musician and mindfulness expert Niall Breslin.

This episode features a rich blend of music from the likes of Mark Knopfler, Jessica Curry and Takashi Yoshimatsu. Plus, a chance to Press Pause with meditation teacher Michael James Wong and some Wind Down Wisdom from science podcaster Caroline Steel on the calming benefits of drawing.

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Music Played

  • Jules Massenet

    Poëme pastoral: V. Crépuscule

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Music Arranger: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's French Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.
  • B. E. Boykin

    Music of Life

    Lyricist: George Parsons Lathrop. Choir: London Voices.
    • Oxford University Press Music.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Cello Sonata No 2 in F major, Op 99 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Inon Barnatan.
    • Brahms: Cello Sonatas.
    • Pentatone.
    • 8.
  • Marin Marais

    [Suite en sol majeur]: VI. Sarabande grave (99)

    Performer: François Joubert-Caillet. Ensemble: L’Achéron.
    • Marais: Troisième livre de pièces de viole.
    • Ricercar.
    • 6.
  • Mark Knopfler

    Farewell To Altamira

    Performer: Mark Knopfler. Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Performer: Christine Pendrill.
    • Altamira (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • EMI.
    • 10.
  • Eric Sigurd

    The Glade

    Performer: Eric Sigurd.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Cello Sonata in B flat major, Op 46 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: David Berlin. Performer: Benjamin Martin.
    • Mellow Cello.
    • ABC Classic.
    • 4.
  • Oliver Davis

    Water Variations and Theme: Variation II

    Performer: Beth & Flo.
    • Oliver Davis: Blue.
    • Signum Records.
    • 8.
  • Henning Sommerro

    Vårsøg (Arr for Violin and Orchestra)

    Performer: Eldbjørg Hemsing. Music Arranger: Ben Palmer. Orchestra: Arctic Philharmonic.
    • VÃ¥rsøg (Arr. for Violin and Orchestra by Ben Palmer).
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.
  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Two Little Pieces: II. Noël

    Performer: Craig Ogden.
    • Craig Ogden: Guitar Meditations.
    • Chandos.
    • 111.
  • John Field

    Nocturne No 10 in E Minor, H 46B

    Performer: Benjamin Frith.
    • Field: Piano Music, Vol. 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Jessica Curry

    An Early Harvest from Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Eímear Noone.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    O Holy Lord

    Choir: Nathaniel Dett Chorale.
    • Marquis Classics.
  • Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff

    Woman´s Prayer

    Performer: Anja Lechner. Performer: Vassilis Tsabropoulos.
    • Gurdjieff, Tsabropoulos: Chants, Hymns And Dances.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 15.
  • Tom Ashbrook

    Dusk

    • Nocturnes.
    • The Other Songs.
    • 1.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude No 10 in G flat major, Op 23

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • Harmonia Mundi UK Limited.
  • Rebecca Dale

    Paradisum Interlude (Materna Requiem)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Dale: Requiem For My Mother.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.
  • Edmund Jolliffe

    Lives in History

    Performer: Edmund Jolliffe.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Prelude No 3 in D flat major, Op 17

    Performer: Barron Ryan.
    • Charles Patrick Records.
  • Massive Attack

    Teardrop

    Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson. Choir: VOCES8.
    • Lux.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Songs without Words Book 6 Op.67 (no.3)

    Music Arranger: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • DG.
  • Rosey Chan

    Solstice

    • Platoon.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Humoresques Op.89 for violin and orchestra; no.2 in G minor

    Performer: Fenella Humphreys. Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: George Vass.
    • Resonus.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Flute Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1034 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Petri Alanko. Performer: Anssi Mattila.
    • Bach, J.S.: Flute Sonatas, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Jordan Seigel

    San Miguel

    • Back Lot Music.
  • Alexis Ffrench

    Crest of a Wave

    • Dreamland (Deluxe Edition).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 12.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quintet in G minor K516 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: John Crockatt. Ensemble: Consone Quartet.
  • Lloyd Coleman

    Luminescence

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Palmer.
  • Sally Greenaway

    Poem I

    Performer: Gillian Pereira. Performer: Sally Greenaway.
    • Greenaway: Aubade & Nocturne.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 3.
  • Douglas Guest

    For the Fallen

    Lyricist: Laurence Binyon. Choir: The Gesualdo Six. Conductor: Owain Park.
    • Lux aeterna: A Sequence for the Souls of the Departed.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • Bryce Dessner

    Lullaby (Song for Octave)

    Performer: Vanessa Wagner.
    • THE BACK OFFICE.
  • Philip Sheppard & Evelyn Glennie

    Frost Flowers

    • Winter Wonderland.
    • KPM Main Series.
    • 4.
  • Ernst Bacon

    Moonlight on the Savannah (Ford's Theater)

    Orchestra: Nashville Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Naxos.
  • River Camille, The Wong Janice & Little Symphony

    Ikigai

    • Little Symphony Records.
  • Lara Somogyi

    instead

    • instead.
    • Mercury Classics.
    • 1.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    4 Mazurkas (No 1 in G sharp minor, Op 3 No 1)

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
  • Jon Hopkins

    Dawn Chorus

    • Dawn Chorus.
    • Domino Recording Co.
    • 1.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: Finale

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Bernstein: Arias and Barcarolles etc.:LSO/Tilson Thomas.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 23.
  • Amy Elise Horrocks

    Twilight (Rêverie)

    Performer: Alexandra Mackenzie. Performer: Ingrid Sawers.
    • Beyond Twilight: Music for Cello & Piano by Female Composers.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 1.
  • Jeremy Birchall

    Mirroring

    • Everything InBetween.
    • Manners McDade.
    • 2.
  • Frederick Delius

    By the River (Florida Suite)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • The Essential Delius - Various.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Erland Cooper

    St. Magnus of Hamnavoe

    Performer: Erland Cooper. Performer: Daniel Pioro. Music Arranger: Daniel Pioro.
    • Holm (Variations & B-sides).
    • Believe International.
    • 4.
  • Manuel Ponce

    Estrellita

    Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz. Performer: Ray Chen. Performer: Julien Quentin.
    • DECCA.
  • Alaskan Tapes

    Oh, Sleeper

    • Nettwerk Music (UK) Limited.
  • S. J. Bray

    Falling, Fallen, Fell

    Performer: S. J. Bray.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Adagio from Violin Sonata in G Minor, Op 5 No 5 (Arr for orchestra)

    Music Arranger: Leopold Stokowski. Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Philharmonic. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Stokowski's Symphonic Baroque.
    • Chandos.
    • 119.
  • Wayne Hill

    Left Bank Two

    Performer: Wayne Hill.
  • B O D I E S

    Wonder

    Composer: Kat Frankie. Choir: B O D I E S. Singer: Kat Frankie.
    • ³Ò¸éÖ±·³¢´¡±·¶Ù.
  • Erik Satie

    3 Gymnopedies: No. 2, Lent et triste

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Letter(s) to Erik Satie.
    • Warner Music UK Limited.
    • 13.
  • Trad.

    Danny Boy

    Performer: Fumito Nunoya. Music Arranger: Brian Mueller.
    • Ars Produktion.

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  • Mon 6 Jan 2025 18:00