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Relaxed and blissful classical to still your mind

Ease into a world of musical calm, with tranquil melodies to transport you away.

Ease into a world of musical calm, with a sequence of tranquil harmonies and melodies to transport you away - from Purcell, Mahler, Isobel Waller-Bridge and more.

Also featuring warm sounds for spring evenings by Henriette Renié, Philip Glass and Adolphus Hailstork.

Produced by Steven Rajam
An Overcoat Media production for 鶹Լ Sounds [MM]

Release date:

2 hours

Music Played

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    Chansons grises: V. L'heure exquise

    Performer: Mischa Maisky. Performer: Daria Hovora. Lyricist: Paul Verlaine.
    • Mischa Maisky - Après un rêve.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 15.
  • Johann Baptist Georg Neruda

    Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat Major: II. Largo

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Haydn & Hummel: Trumpet Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.
  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    Requiem Mass, 1605 - Kyrie

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Victoria: Requiem Mass, 1605.
    • Signum Records.
    • 4.
  • Domenico Cimarosa

    Oboe Concerto in C Major, I. Introduzione: Larghetto

    Performer: Lajos Lencsés. Orchestra: Kammerorchester arcata Stuttgart.
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  • Isobel Waller-Bridge

    For A Moment

    Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.
    • VIII.
    • Mercury Classics.
    • 3.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Les tendres plaintes

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Rameau: Les tendres plaintes.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Henriette Renié

    Harp Concerto in C Minor: II. Adagio

    Performer: Emmanuel Ceysson. Orchestra: Orchestre Régional Avignon Provence. Conductor: Samuel Jean.
    • Naive.
  • Henry Purcell

    In Nomine a7

    Performer: Phantasm.
    • Simax Classics.
  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    Pequena Suíte, W064: V. Melodia

    Performer: Yuko Miyagawa. Performer: Aki Kuroda.
    • Black Swan.
    • Odradek Records.
    • 12.
  • Philip Glass

    String Quartet No. 3 'Mishima': II. November 25: Ichigaya

    Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.
    • Naxos.
  • Adolphus Hailstork

    Symphony No. 1: II. Adagio: Lento ma non troppo

    Orchestra: Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Hailstork: Orchestral Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Octet In F, D.803: 2. Adagio

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: Isabelle van Keulen. Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: David Geringas. Performer: Alois Posch. Performer: Eduard Brunner. Performer: Radovan Vlatković. Performer: Klaus Thunemann.
    • Schubert: Chamber Music - "Trout" Quintet; "Rosamunde" Quartet; Octet.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 11.
  • William Walton

    5 Bagatelles: 2. Lento

    Performer: Nicola Hall.
    • The Art Of The Guitar.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 2.
  • Peteris Vasks

    The Fruits Of Silence

    Performer: Huw Watkins. Ensemble: VOCES8. Lyricist: Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu.
    • Winter.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 11.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99: II. Adagio affettuoso

    Performer: Jacqueline du Pré. Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Brahms, Chopin & Franck: Cello Sonatas.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.
  • Marc Berthomieu

    Cinq nuances in B Minor: III. Idyllico

    Performer: Dejan Gavric. Performer: Silke Aichhorn.
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  • Francis Poulenc

    Mouvements perpétuels, n°2 très modéré

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Arion.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Blumine

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Masterpieces in Miniature.
    • SFS Media.
    • 2.
  • Baal HaSulam

    Melodies of the Upper Worlds: XIII. To Proclaim in the Morning about Your Mercy

    Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Come, Sweet Death, BWV 478 (Arr. for 5 Cellos)

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Hannah Roberts. Performer: Ben Davies. Performer: Desmond Neysmith. Performer: Max Ruisi.
    • Song.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 10.
  • Johannes Brahms

    5 Lieder, Op. 105: No. 1, Wie Melodien zieht es mir

    Performer: Martin Fröst. Performer: Roland Pöntinen.
    • BIS.
  • Benjamin Godard

    La Berceuse, aus der Oper 'Jocelyn'

    Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Barcarole - Favourite Orchestral Pieces.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 15.
  • Howard Skempton

    Campanella 3

    Performer: John Tilbury.
    • Skempton: Well, well Cornelius.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 18.
  • Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Cello Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 49: II. Largo, molto espressivo

    Performer: Torleif Thedéen. Orchestra: Hannover Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Eije Oue.
    • CPO.
  • Charles Koechlin

    Les chants de nectaire, Series 2, Op. 199: No. 24, Soir lumineux

    Performer: Nicola Woodward.
    • Willowhayne Records.
  • Michael Praetorius

    Es ist ein Ros entsprungen

    Composer: Jan Sandström. Ensemble: VOCES8. Lyricist: Michael Praetorius. Lyricist: Jan Sandström.
    • Winter.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 2.
  • William Grant Still

    Traceries: IV. Out of the Silence

    Performer: Mark Boozer.
    • Naxos.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Rusalka, Op. 114, B. 203, Act I: Song to the Moon

    Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Conductor: Adrien Perruchon.
    • Emotions.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.