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Sue Perkins guides you through classical pieces to relax and refocus

Sue Perkins guides you through her favourite calming classical selections, to help you unwind from a busy day.

Sue Perkins guides you through some of her favourite calming classical selections, to help you unwind from a busy day.

Featuring calming melodies and soothing harmonies from Monteverdi, Pergolesi, Higdon, Beethoven, and more - as part of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ’s Mental Wellbeing Season 2024.

Produced by James C Taylor
An Overcoat Media Production for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Sounds, MM

1 hour, 58 minutes

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Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85: III. Adagio

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Elgar.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.

  • Franz Liszt

    Consolation No. 3 in D-Flat Major, S. 172

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Liszt - My Piano Hero.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • Dmitri Kabalevsky

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

    Performer: Torleif ThedΓ©en. Orchestra: Hannover Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Eije Oue.
    • CPO.

  • Pietro Mascagni

    Intermezzo From Cavalleria Rusticana

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Philip Ellis.
    • Last Night of the Proms.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.

  • Gustav Holst

    A Moorside Suite, H. 173: Nocturne

    Performer: David Lloyd-Jones. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • Naxos.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    II. Largo From Sonata In C minor. F XVI No. 1

    Ensemble: Eroica Trio.
    • The Most Relaxing Vivaldi Album In The World... Ever!.
    • Angel Records.
    • 18.

  • Ida Moberg

    Sunrise Orchestral Suite: Stillness

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Johannes Gustavsson.
    • Aulin, Moberg, AndrΓ©e: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos Sweden - Nilento.
    • 8.

  • Christopher H. Harris

    Bring Me All Your Dreams

    Ensemble: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers.

  • Claude Debussy

    2 Arabesques, L. 66: I. Andantino con moto

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • Harmonia Mundi UK Limited.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Love's Labour's Lost, Soliloquy 1: So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in E-Flat Major, K. 375: III. Adagio

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Serenades K. 361 & 375.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 16.

  • Joby Talbot

    Transit of Venus

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Ensemble: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • TIME.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Lamento Della Ninfa

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Performer: Montserrat Figueras.
    • La Barcha D'Amore.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 7.

  • Max Richter

    Vladimir's Blues

    • The Blue Notebooks (15 Years).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 6.

  • AlbΓ©ric Magnard

    Suite d'orchestre dans le style ancien, Op. 2: II. Sarabande. Mesto

    Orchestra: Philharmonisches Orchester Freiburg. Conductor: Fabrice Bollon.
    • Magnard: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Les BorΓ©ades / Act IV: EntrΓ©e de Polymnie

    Conductor: Marc Minkowski. Lyricist: Louis de Cahusac. Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre.
    • Rameau: Une symphonie imaginaire.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 16.

  • Chilly Gonzales

    Armellodie

    Performer: Olga Scheps.
    • Armellodie.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.

  • William Byrd

    Miserere mihi, Domine

    Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • The Deer's Cry.
    • CORO.
    • 6.

  • Frank Bridge

    Berceuse

    Performer: Eniko Magyar. Performer: Tadashi Imai.
    • Naxos.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    5 FantasiestΓΌcke for String Quartet, Op. 5: No. 2, Serenade

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered, Vol. 1: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Azica Records.
    • 06.

  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Stabat Mater, P. 77

    Performer: Margaret Marshall. Performer: Lucia Valentini Terrani. Performer: Leslie Pearson. Lyricist: Jacopone da Todi. Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Pergolesi: Stabat Mater.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor, Op. 10 No. 1: II. Adagio molto

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 24.

  • Jennifer Higdon

    String Poetic: II. Nocturne

    Performer: Jennifer Koh. Performer: Reiko Uchida.
    • Violin Recital: Koh, Jennifer - Higdon, J. / Harrison, L. / Adams, J. / Ruggles,.
    • Cedille.
    • 2.

  • Ethel Bilsland

    The Birthday Party: II. Peep​-​Bo

    Performer: Samantha Ege.
    • Wave Theory Records.

  • Edward Elgar

    Salut d'amour, Op. 12

    Performer: Charlie Siem. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Lyricist: Manfred Grafe. Conductor: Paul Goodwin.
    • Under the Stars.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

  • Γ“lafur Arnalds

    momentary (choir version)

    Choir: VOCES8. Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson.
    • re:member (choir versions).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Arvo PΓ€rt

    Spiegel im Spiegel

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Simon Mulligan.
    • This Must Be The Place.
    • Indigo Film Srl.
    • 5.