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Relaxing music to bring calm and clarity

Enjoy soothing classical sounds to lift your mood.

Calming musical light and shade to uplift your body and mind.

Featuring warm and reflective orchestral textures from Gustav Mahler, Laurie Christman and Ludwig van Beethoven, plus flowing instrumental sounds by Alex Baranowski, Jess Gillam and Alexis Ffrench. This episode also features a special performance by the BBC Singers of Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Heyr pu oss himnum a.

Produced by James C Taylor
An Overcoat Media production for BBC Sounds, MM

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Music Played

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 3: VI. Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden: a. Sehr gebunden...

    Orchestra: Verbier Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Michael Tilson Thomas in Verbier (Live at Verbier Festival, 2016).
    • Verbier Festival Gold.
    • 01.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 56 in C Major, Hob. I:56: II. Adagio

    Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Haydn 2032, Vol. 18: Il maestro di scuola.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 2.

  • Rosey Chan

    Jasmine Flower

    Performer: Rosey Chan.
    • Jasmine Flower.
    • Platoon.
    • 1.

  • Sally Beamish

    In the Stillness

    Composer: Katrina Shepherd. Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Ensemble: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Ensemble: Pembroke College Girls' Choir.
    • All Things Are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Records.
    • 4.

  • Laurie Christman

    Rolling Fields

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Ziegler.
    • Navona.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Barcarolle No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 26

    Performer: Carmen Stefanescu.
    • Fauré: Barcarolle No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 26.
    • Prospero Classical.
    • 1.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Four Seasons, Spring: II. Largo e pianissimo sempre

    Performer: Isaac Stern. Orchestra: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon & Decca.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 02.

  • Alex Baranowski

    Reflections

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Ensemble: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • PRISM, Vol. 1.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.

  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir

    Heyr þu oss himnum à

    Ensemble: BBC Singers.

  • Hayato Sumino

    Nocturne II - After Dawn

    Performer: Hayato Sumino.
    • Human Universe.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 6.

  • Gabríel Ólafs

    The Drifter

    Performer: Gabríel Ólafs. Orchestra: Reykjavík Orkestra. Conductor: Viktor Orri Árnason.
    • Orchestral Works.
    • Decca Records US.
    • 9.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61: II. Larghetto

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Beethoven: Violin Concerto.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 02.

  • Piero Piccioni

    Amore mio aiutami

    Performer: Piero Piccioni.
    • Bacci Bros Records.

  • Helen Hopekirk

    2 Tone-Pictures: II. The Seal-Woman's Sea-joy

    Performer: Vanessa Wagner.
    • Helen Hopekirk: The Seal-woman's Sea-joy.
    • La Boîte à Pépites.
    • 1.

  • Franz Biebl

    Ave Maria

    Ensemble: VOCES8. Ensemble: Ringmasters.
    • Biebl: Ave Maria.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • JB Dunckel

    Wake

    Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Ensemble: Capucelli.
    • Dunckel: Wake.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54: 2. Intermezzo (Andantino grazioso)

    Performer: Lucy Parham. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Robert & Clara Schumann: Piano Concertos.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 02.

  • Joe Hisaishi

    la pioggia

    Performer: Joe Hisaishi. Orchestra: Orchestra Città di Ferrara.
    • Songs of Hope: The Essential Joe Hisaishi Vol. 2.
    • Universal Music LLC.
    • 2.

  • Erland Cooper

    Berriedale at Dawn

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Ensemble: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • Cooper: Berriedale at Dawn.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Trad.

    Lisa Lan

    Performer: Alis Huws. Music Arranger: Alis Huws.
    • Quiet Sunlit Mornings.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 2.

  • Ronald Binge

    The Watermill

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson.
    • Binge: Watermill (The) / Scottish Rhapsody.
    • Marco-Polo.
    • 11.

  • Ivo Antognini

    O magnum mysterium

    Lyricist: Anon.. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Ivo Antognini: Come to Me in the Silence of the Night - Choral Works.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Cinnamon Grove: II. Adagio cantabile

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • Navona.

  • Manu Martin

    Lim Cosmic Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra, Act II: II. Is Anybody Out There

    Composer: Joi Barua. Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet. Lyricist: Susan Lim. Choir: London Voices. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Ziegler.
    • Barua, Manu Martin: Lim Cosmic Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra, Act II: II. Is.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Louis Spohr

    Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 26: II. Adagio

    Performer: Christoffer Sundqvist. Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Simon Gaudenz.
    • CPO.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Opalescence, Op. 72

    Performer: Duncan Honeybourne.
    • ASC Records.

  • Chevalier J.J.O. de Meude-Monpas

    Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major: II. Adagio

    Performer: Rachel Barton Pine. Orchestra: Encore Chamber Orchestra.
    • Meude-Monpas / Saint-Georges / White / Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concertos by Bla.
    • Cedille.
    • 2.

  • Imogen Holst

    Variations on "Loth to Depart": Theme

    Performer: Alice Farnham. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.
    • Imogen Holst: Discovering Imogen.
    • NMC Recordings Limited.
    • 2.

  • Eduardo Falú

    Resolana

    Composer: Jaime Dávalos. Performer: Leonardo Andersen.
    • Prima Classic.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra: II. Elegy. Adagio, "In Memoriam"

    Performer: Richard Watkins. Performer: Sophie Langdon. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Odaline de la Martínez.
    • Chandos.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Alleluia

    Conductor: Eric Whitacre. Ensemble: Eric Whitacre Singers.
    • Water Night EP.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 1.

  • Alexis Ffrench

    The Way It Was

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench.
    • Classical Soul Vol. 1 - The Solo Piano Collection.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Florence Price

    Symphony No. 1 in E Minor: II. Largo, maestoso

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Florence Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.

  • Grace Williams

    Sailing Song (Sea Sketches, No 2)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Andrews.
    • Sea Sketches for String Orchestra: II. Sailing Song.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 1.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 39: III Adagio

    Performer: Daniele Orlando. Performer: Linda di Carlo.
    • Brilliant Classics Licensing BV.

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