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Settle into the evening with a soothing classical playlist

Niall Breslin brings you calming classical music to help you release the stresses of the day, recharge and prepare to rest.

Three hours of calming classical music to help you release the stresses of the day, recharge and prepare to rest - presented by Irish musician and mindfulness expert Niall Breslin.

This episode features a rich blend of music from the likes of Alexandra Streliski, George Walker and Catrin Finch. Plus, a chance to Press Pause with Michael James Wong, and some essential Wind Down Wisdom from science podcaster Caroline Steel on the benefits of creating space for yourself in your evening.

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Music Played

  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Firebird - Suite (1919): Round Dance Of The Princesses

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Félix Ardanaz.
    • Orpheus Classical.

  • Robert Schumann

    Kinderszenen, Op.15: XII. Kind im Einschlummern

    Performer: Arcadi Volodos.
    • Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Major, D. 850 - Schumann: Kinderszenen Op. 15.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 16.

  • Erland Cooper

    Movement 5 - Pt. 2 - Instrumental

    Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • Folded Landscapes.
    • Mercury Classics.
    • 8.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Ave Maria

    Singer: Ryan French. Choir: VocalEssence Chorus. Conductor: Philip Brunelle.
    • Got the Saint Louis Blues.
    • Clarion.
    • 11.

  • Edward Elgar

    Romance, Op 62

    Performer: Karen Geoghegan. Orchestra: Opera North Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Wallfisch.
    • Karen Geoghegan plays Bassoon Concertos.
    • Chandos.
    • 011.

  • Julien Joubert

    Green (from Trois Verlaine)

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.

  • ABBOTT

    Interlude

    Performer: ABBOTT. Ensemble: Canea Quartett.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.

  • George Butterworth

    The Banks of Green Willow

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Alexandra Stréliski

    BORDERS

    Performer: Alexandra Stréliski.
    • Néo-Romance.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 13.

  • Joanna Borrett

    Then

    Ensemble: Her Ensemble.
    • Borrett: Then.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 28 in C Major, K. 200: II. Andante

    Conductor: Johannes Klumpp. Orchestra: Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 1, 28 & 41.
    • Genuin.
    • 105.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in A Major, K 209

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • Sony.

  • Alexis Ffrench

    Blackbird Rising

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench.
    • Blackbird Rising & Blackbird Returns.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.

  • Florence Price

    Rhapsody in E-Flat Major

    Performer: Dinara Klinton.
    • Rhapsody in E-Flat Major.
    • ABRSM Sounds.
    • 1.

  • Catrin Finch

    Be Gone, Begin

    Performer: Catrin Finch.
    • Notes To Self.
    • bendigedig.
    • 10.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzi, Op. 117: No. 1, Intermezzo in E-Flat Major

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Salve Regina, FP 110

    Conductor: Lionel Sow. Choir: NFM Chorus Wroclaw.
    • Dialogue.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 12.

  • Lara Somogyi & Jean‐Michel Blais

    aura

    • désert.
    • Mercury Classics.
    • 1.

  • George Walker

    Lyric for Strings

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.

  • Tom Ashbrook

    Solitude I

    Performer: Tom Ashbrook.
    • Solitude I.
    • The Other Songs.
    • 1.

  • Lucy Walker

    There will come soft rains

    Ensemble: St Martin’s Voices. Director: Andrew Earis.
    • Lucy Walker: Choral Works.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 11.

  • Christopher Wilson

    Suite for String Orchestra: V. Romance. Andante moderato

    Orchestra: South-West German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim. Conductor: Douglas Bostock.
    • British Music for Strings II.
    • CPO.
    • 105.

  • Hania Rani

    Time

    Performer: Hania Rani.
    • Matthew Halsall t/a Gondwana Records.

  • Leokadiya Kashperova

    Night

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Hilary Campbell.

  • Frederick Delius

    Summer Night on the River

    Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.
    • Delius: Orchestral Works.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 6.

  • Lyudmyla Shukaylo

    Romance

    Performer: Oleg Shebeta-Dragan. Performer: Dominic Degavino.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Lullaby for Lucy

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.

  • Joseph Parry

    Myfanwy (Matt Robertson Ambient Mix)

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Music Arranger: Matt Robertson.
    • Myfanwy (Ambient Mix).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Suite in D Major, Op. 49, R. 165: IV. Romance

    Conductor: Jun Märkl. Orchestra: Euskadiko Orkestra Sinfonikoa.
    • Saint-Saëns: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 204.

  • Kazuma Okabayashi

    Soul Glide

    Performer: Goldmund. Performer: Kazuma Okabayashi.
    • Soul Glide.
    • Nettwerk Music Group.
    • 1.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Symphony No. 2 in D minor 'Elegiac': II. Lento espressivo

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd.
    • NAXOS.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    Spring (Ambient Mix)

    Performer: Ola Gjeilo.
    • Spring (Ambient Mix).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Marcel Tournier

    Images, Suite No. 4, Op. 39: II. Cloches sous la neige

    Performer: Emmanuel Ceysson.
    • Images. Hommage à Marcel Tournier.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 18.

  • Elliott Jack Sansom

    Night Dance

    Performer: Elliott Jack Sansom.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).

  • Max Richter

    Late and Soon

    Performer: Max Richter.
    • Decca.

Broadcast

  • Tuesday 17:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind