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Serene music for calm reflection

Find peace amidst life’s noise with reflective orchestral, choral and solo piano music.

Find peace amidst life’s noise with reflective orchestral, choral and solo piano music. Paired with meditative choral works to soothe your mind and soul.

Featuring music from Claude Debussy, Rachel Portman, Olivia Belli, Rosey Chan, and more.

Produced by James C Taylor
An Overcoat Media Production for BBC Radio 3 Unwind, MM.

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sheep May Safely Graze from Cantata No. 208

    Music Arranger: James Galway. Lyricist: Salomon Franck. Conductor: James Galway. Conductor: Barry Griffiths. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Choir: BBC Singers. Choir: The Choir of King’s School, Canterbury.
    • Les 50 Trésors de Bach - Les Trésors de la Musique Classique.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 39.

  • Thomas Jean Mohamed Rabeh Horeczko

    Rose Bloom

    Performer: Braths. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Irene Delgado-Jiménez.
    • Rose Bloom.
    • Masterworks/Sony Music.
    • 1.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Petit Adagio Variation (After The Seasons, Op. 67: No. 15, Petit Adagio)

    Composer: Jan-Peter Klöpfel. Performer: Jan Vogler. Ensemble: Moritzburg Ensemble.
    • Petit Adagio Variation (After The Seasons, Op. 67: No. 15, Petit Adagio).
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.

  • Lucy Walker

    O Nata Lux

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Nightfall.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Oboe Sonata, Op. 166: I. Andantino

    Performer: Hansjörg Schellenberger. Performer: Rolf Koenen.
    • Oboe Sonata, Op. 166: III. Molto Allegro.
    • Denon.
    • 1.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.
    • Warner Music UK Limited.

  • Donnacha Dennehy

    New Jersey

    Performer: Min Kwon.
    • America/Beautiful.
    • Delos.
    • 6.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: Prélude

    Performer: Alon Sariel. Music Arranger: Alon Sariel.
    • Plucked Bach III.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Rachel Portman

    Tipping Points: II. Air

    Performer: Niklas Liepe. Orchestra: WDR Funkhausorchester. Conductor: Erina Yashima.
    • Rachel Portman: Tipping Points.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 4.

  • Christopher Churcher

    Echo

    Singer: Steph Garrett. Conductor: Will Dawes. Ensemble: The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford.
    • Churcher: Moonrise.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 12.

  • Augusta Holmès

    La Nuit et l'Amour: Interlude de l'ode symphonique

    Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland‐Pfalz. Composer: Samuel Friedmann.
    • Augusta Holmès: Orchestral Works.
    • SWR Digital.
    • 4.

  • Alexis Ffrench

    Guiding Light

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench.
    • Truth.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 5.

  • Robert Schumann

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

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

  • Gabríel Ólafs

    Islandus: Solon I

    Performer: Gabríel Ólafs. Lyricist: Gabríel Ólafs. Lyricist: Davíð Stefánsson. Orchestra: Reykjavík Orkestra. Conductor: Viktor Orri Árnason.
    • Orchestral Works.
    • Decca Records US.
    • 4.

  • Léo Delibes

    Lakmé / Act 1: "Sous le dôme épais" (Flower Duet)

    Lyricist: Edmond Gondinet. Lyricist: Philippe Gille. Music Arranger: J. Bell. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Vissi d'Arte - Opera for Orchestra.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.

  • Kerensa Briggs

    Media Vita

    Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Ensemble: Pembroke College Chapel Choir.
    • Media Vita.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • Snorri Hallgrímsson

    I Am Weary, Don't Let Me Rest

    Performer: Snorri Hallgrímsson.
    • I Am Weary, Don't Let Me Rest.
    • Lime Blue Music Limited.
    • 5.

  • Andrea Morricone

    Cinema Paradiso

    Composer: Ennio Morricone. Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Conductor: Stéphane Denève. Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic.
    • Cinema.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Olivia Belli

    Soglia

  • Hubert Clifford

    Five English Nursery Tunes IV. Curly Locks

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Chandos.

  • Frederic Mompou

    Paisajes: No. 2, El lago

    Performer: Carmen Stefanescu.
    • Mompou: Paisajes: No. 2, El lago.
    • Prospero Classical.
    • 1.

  • Lili Boulanger

    Deux Morceaux: I. Nocturne

    Performer: Julian Riem. Performer: Raphaela Gromes.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.

  • Florence Price

    Adoration

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Zürcher Kammerorchester.
    • America.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 14.

  • Christopher H. Harris

    Bring me all your dreams

    Lyricist: Langston Hughes. Ensemble: London Voices. Conductor: Christopher H. Harris.
    • Oxford University Press Music.

  • Josquin des Prez

    Mille regretz

    Performer: Jordan Vale. Conductor: Hugo Ticciati. Orchestra: O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mille regretz [Arr. for chamber orchestra by Johannes Marmén] & Sivad [Arr. for.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • Julian Lloyd Webber

    Jackie's Song

    Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.
    • Cello Moods.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4.

  • Trad.

    The Lark in the Clear Air

    Music Arranger: James Whitbourn. Ensemble: The Gesualdo Six. Director: Owain Park.
    • Hyperion.

  • Leroy Anderson

    Irish Suite: V. The Last Rose of Summer

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Anderson, L.: Orchestral Music, Vol. 4 - Irish Suite / Scottish Suite / Alma Mat.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.

  • Yann Tiersen

    Sur le fil

    Performer: Dalal.
    • Tiersen: Sur le fil.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Joseph Bologne

    Symphony No. 1 in G Major, Op. 11, No. 1: II. Andante

    Music Arranger: Dominique-René de Lerma. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • Black Composer Series, Vol. 1: Chevalier de Saint-Georges (Remastered).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, B. 178, "From the New World": II. Largo

    Orchestra: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Tadaaki Otaka.
    • Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 ‘From The New World’.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 2.

  • Caroline Shaw

    And the Swallow

    Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Ensemble: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Ensemble: Pembroke College Girls' Choir.
    • All Things Are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Records.
    • 7.

  • Dan Jones

    Chloe

    Performer: Esther Yoo. Conductor: Dan Jones. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
    • Sur la plage de Chesil (Bande originale du film).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 26.

  • Samuel Scheidt

    Ludi musici I: No. 5, Paduan a 4, SSWV 43

    Conductor: Giovanni Antonini. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico.
    • Haydn2032, Vol. 19: Trauer.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 10.

  • Robert Pearsall

    Lay a Garland

    Composer: Francis Beaumont. Composer: John Fletcher. Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Poetry in Music.
    • CORO.
    • 11.

  • Rosey Chan

    Compassion

    Performer: Rosey Chan. Performer: Sonic Apothecary.
    • Rosey Chan.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Love's Labour's Lost, Op. 28, 1: So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not

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

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