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Chilled classical music for a blissful Bank Holiday

Let your cares melt away this Bank Holiday - with a soundtrack to help body and soul recover from the daily grind.
Sit back, relax and sink into serene classical sounds.

Let your cares melt away this Bank Holiday - with a soundtrack to help body and soul recover from the daily grind.

Sit back, relax and sink into serene classical sounds.

Featuring music by Mendelssohn, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Pauline Viardot, plus rich and rejuvenating harmonies by Schumann, Koechlin and Josquin des Prez.

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

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1 hour, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Antonín Dvořák

    From the Bohemian Forest, Op. 68, B. 133: V. Silent Woods

    Performer: Kian Soltani. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin, Cellists. Music Arranger: Lothar Niefind. Music Arranger: Gunter Ribke.
    • Dvorák: From the Bohemian Forest, Op. 68, B. 133: V. Silent Woods (Arr. Niefind.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Rachel Portman

    Apple tree

    • ask the river.
    • Node Records.
    • 7.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Clarinet Quintet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 10: II. Larghetto affettuoso

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered, Vol. 1: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Azica Records.
    • 11.
  • Georgs Pelēcis

    Concertino bianco: 1. Con intenerimento

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska. Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Johannes Fritzsch.
    • Into Silence: Pärt _ Vasks _ Górecki _ Pelēcis.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 1.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 19: No. 6 Andante sostenuto

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Gunars Upatnieks. Music Arranger: Andreas Ottensamer. Ensemble: Schumann Quartett.
    • Blue Hour: Mendelssohn Edition.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Florence Beatrice Price

    Negro Folksongs for String Quartet: No. 2, Somebody's Knockin' At Yo Do'

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered, Vol. 2: Florence B. Price.
    • Azica Records.
    • 6.
  • Karen Tanaka

    Water Dance III

    Performer: Signe Bakke.
    • Crystalline - Piano Music by Karen Tanaka.
    • 2L.
    • 4.
  • Josquin des Prez

    Missa L'homme arme: Agnus Dei

    Choir: Oxford Camerata. Conductor: Jeremy Summerly.
    • Saints and Sinners - The Music of Medieval and Renaissance Europe.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Kwong Song

    Ensemble: Acacia Quartet.
    • Blue Silence.
    • Vexation840.
    • 06.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056: II. Largo

    Performer: David Fray. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Bach: Piano Concerto No. 5, BWV 1056.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.
  • Ólafur Arnalds

    Saudade (When We Are Born)

    • Saudade (When We Are Born).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in B flat, HIII No. 69, Op. 71, No. 1: 2. Adagio

    Ensemble: Aeolian Quartet.
    • Haydn: The Complete String Quartets.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 224.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Mazurka No. 41 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 63: No. 3

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Chopin: Pièces pour piano.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Charles Koechlin

    Flute Sonata, Op. 52: II. Mouvement de Sicilienne

    Performer: Markus Brönnimann. Performer: Michael Kleiser.
    • Koechlin & Emmanuel: Music for Flute, Clarinet and Piano.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 5.
  • François Couperin

    Les baricades mystérieuses

    Performer: Göran Söllscher.
    • Eleven String Baroque.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 16.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140: Choral. "Zion hört die Wächter singen"

    Orchestra: Jean-François Paillard Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jean‐François Paillard.
    • Pachelbel: Canon - Albinoni: Adagio - Bach, Bonporti, Molter: Works.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.
  • Arvo Pärt

    Für Alina

    Performer: Alexander Malter.
    • Arvo Pärt: Musica Selecta - A Sequence By Manfred Eicher (Remastered 2015).
    • ECM New Series.
    • 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ave verum corpus

    Performer: Andrew Fletcher. Choir: Ex Cathedra. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Ex Cathedra.
  • Claude Debussy

    Bruyères, L. 123

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • Voyage.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 12.
  • Pauline Viardot

    Six Morceaux: Berceuse

    Performer: Laura Kobayashi. Performer: Susan Gray.
    • Feminissimo!.
    • Albany Records.
    • 12.
  • Max Richter

    Infra 8

    Performer: Louisa Fuller. Performer: Natalia Bonner. Performer: Nick Barr. Performer: Ian Burdge. Performer: Chris Worsey.
    • Infra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 13.
  • Franz Danzi

    Wind Quintet in G Minor, Op. 56, No. 2: II. Andante

    Ensemble: Philharmonisches Bläserquintett Berlin.
    • Danzi: Wind Quintets, Vol. 2.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
    • 6.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Symphony No. 2 in D Major, MWV N 2: II. Andante

    Orchestra: Northern Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Ward.
    • Mendelssohn: String Symphonies, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • Erik Satie

    Gnossiennes: No. 5

    Performer: Pascal Rogé.
    • French Classical Piano.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 14.
  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61: III. Adagio espressivo

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Schumann: The Symphonies.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 7.
  • Johannes Brahms

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

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