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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms Special: Mesmerising music to lift your mood

Take a moment to unwind and relax with a taste of some of the most blissful and mindful music you can experience at this summer's ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms festival.

Relax, as you experience a collection of the most calming tracks that will feature at the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms classical music festival this summer.

Including gentle orchestral tracks from Clara Schumann, Augusta Holmès and Gustav Holst, and glowing harmonies from Giacomo Puccini, Gabriel Fauré, & J.S. Bach.

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

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Music Played

  • EΜ„riks Ešenvalds

    Stars

    Composer: Sara Teasdale. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Lux.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 7.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Messiah / Part 1: Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis. Lyricist: Charles Jennens.
    • Weihnachten in deutschen Stuben.
    • Yellow Records.
    • 7.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Madame Butterfly: Humming Chorus

    Choir: Vienna State Opera Choir. Lyricist: Giuseppe Giacosa. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Lyricist: Luigi Illica. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Relaxing Adagios.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 7.

  • Edward Elgar

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

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

  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen / Act 2: Entr'acte

    Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Lyricist: Henri Meilhac. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Lyricist: Ludovic HalΓ©vy. Lyricist: Prosper MΓ©rimΓ©e.
    • Bizet: Carmen Suite No.1.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 3.

  • Augusta HolmΓ¨s

    Ludus pro Patria: La Nuit et l'Amour

    Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland‐Pfalz.
    • Augusta HolmΓ¨s: Orchestral Works.
    • Marco Polo.
    • 04.

  • William Henry Harris

    Faire is the heaven

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers. Lyricist: Edmund Spenser.
    • A New Heaven.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 3.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Firebird: Round Dance Of The Princesses

    Orchestra: National Theater Opera Orchestra of Paris. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 8.

  • Gabriel FaurΓ©

    Pavane, Op. 50

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Masterpieces in Miniature.
    • SFS Media.
    • 3.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Suite No. 2 from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64: III. Friar Laurence

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Prokofiev : Suite Nos. 1 & 2 from Romeo and Juliet.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor, K. 491: II. Larghetto

    Performer: Lars Vogt. Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris.
    • Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-Flat Major, K. 271 "Jeunehomme" & Piano Concer.
    • Ondine.
    • 5.

  • Gabriel FaurΓ©

    Requiem, Op. 48: VIII. In Paradisum

    Choir: Accentus. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France.
    • Faure Requiem.
    • ²Τ²ΉΓ―±Ή±π.
    • 08.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia On Greensleeves

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Vaughan Williams: Fantasia On "Greensleeves"; The Lark Ascending / Delius: Two P.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan": IIb. Trio. Recht gemΓ€chlich

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan" & Adagio from Symphony No. 10 in F-Sha.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.

  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 7: Romanze. Andante non troppo con grazia

    Performer: Francesco Nicolosi. Orchestra: Alma Mahler Sinfonietta. Conductor: Stefania Rinaldi.
    • Schumann, C.: Piano Concerto in A Minor / Piano Trio in G Minor.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade II

    Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Music Arranger: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition etc.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Locus Iste

    Choir: The Sixteen. Lyricist: Anton Bruckner. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Renaissance - Music for Inner Peace.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 9.

  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    Sussex Landscape, Op. 27: II. Lento e molto tranquillo

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Roderick Cox.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 7.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35: II. Canzonetta. Andante

    Performer: Christian Ferras. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Karajan A-Z: Stravinsky - Tchaikovsky.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 123.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio No. 6 in E-Flat Major, Op. 70 No. 2: III. Allegretto ma non troppo

    Performer: Jacqueline du PrΓ©. Performer: Pinchas Zukerman. Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Beethoven: Complete Piano Trios.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 18.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Mother Goose Suite: I. Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty

    Orchestra: FestivalovΓ½ orchestr Praha. Conductor: Pavel Urbanek.
    • Maurice Ravel - Mother Goose Suite.
    • Cobra Entertainment LLC.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-Flat Major, K. 595: Larghetto

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466 & No. 27 in B-Flat Major, K. 5.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.

  • Richard Strauss

    Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64: V. Wanderung neben dem Bache

    Performer: David Bell. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra; Alpensinfonie; Don Juan; Till Eulenspiegel; Fo.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 5.

  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets, Op. 32: 2. Venus, the Bringer of Peace

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Holst: The Planets.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream, Incidental Music, Op. 61: No. 7, Nocturne

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos 1-5, Overtures, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
    • LSO Live.
    • 20.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    St. John Passion, BWV 245: Part I: Chorale: Wer hat dich so geschlagen

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Lyricist: Anonymous. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach, J.S.: St. John Passion.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 11.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus No. 6 in Stylo Francese

    Performer: Pierre‐Laurent Aimard.
    • Bach, J.S.: Art of Fugue.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 6.