Mellow classical music to create moments of calm
Sound-track your day with blissful classical music to soothe your mind and help you relax.
Sound-track your day with blissful classical music to soothe you and help you relax.
With warming harmonies by Carl Orff, Hubert Parry and Kerensa Briggs, plus soft melodies from Claude Debussy, Avril Coleridge-Taylor and Amy Beach to gently soothe your mind and soul.
Produced by James C Taylor
An Overcoat Media production for BBC Radio 3 Unwind, MM
On radio
Music Played
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Clara Schumann
Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 7: II. Romance. Andante non troppo con grazia
Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Holly Mathieson.- Romance – The Piano Music of Clara Schumann.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 2.
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Eric Whitacre
The Seal Lullaby
Performer: Christopher Glynn. Lyricist: Rudyard Kipling. Choir: VOCES8. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.- Whitacre: The Seal Lullaby.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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Claude Debussy
Deux Arabesques, L66: No. 1: Andantino con moto
Performer: Kathryn Stott.- Sony Classical.
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Gustav Mahler
Blumine
Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.- Masterpieces in Miniature.
- SFS Media.
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Peter Warlock
Capriol Suite, 2. Pavane
Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467: II. Andante
Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.- Warner Classics.
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Undine Smith Moore
We Shall Walk Through The Valley
Performer: Apollo5.- Haven.
- VOCES8 Records.
- 7.
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Amy Beach
By the Still Waters, Op. 114
Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.- Summertime.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 12.
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John Rutter
Requiem: Pie Jesu
Performer: Edward Saklatvala. Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia.- Rutter: Requiem.
- Warner Classics.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XVIII. Andante cantabile
Performer: Gautier Capuçon.- Souvenirs.
- Warner Classics.
- 22.
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Dan Jones
Solemn Love
Performer: Esther Yoo. Conductor: Dan Jones. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales.- On Chesil Beach (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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Nino Rota
Clarinet Sonata in D Major: I. Allegretto scorrevole
Performer: Goran Gojevic.- Rota: Clarinet Sonata - Clarinet Trio.
- Naxos.
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Carl Orff
Carmina Burana: 3. Cour d'amours, "In trutina"
Performer: Barbara Bonney. Lyricist: Anon.. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: André Previn.- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
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Hubert Parry
Lady Radnor's Suite: V. Slow Minuet
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.- Boult Conducts Parry.
- Lyrita.
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Avril Coleridge-Taylor
Sussex Landscape, Op. 27: II. Lento e molto tranquillo
Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Roderick Cox.- Coleridge-Taylor.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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Erik Satie
3 Gymnopédies: No. 1 Lent et douloureux
Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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Kerensa Briggs
Media vita
Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.- Media Vita.
- Signum Records.
- 1.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique": II. Allegro con grazia
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- Tchaikovsky: 6 Symphonies.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 25.
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George Frideric Handel
Lascia ch'io piangia (Rinaldo)
Performer: Felix Klieser. Ensemble: CHAARTS.- Berlin Classics.
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Franz Liszt
Consolation No. 3 in D-Flat Major, S. 172
Performer: Lang Lang.- Liszt - My Piano Hero.
- Sony Classical.
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Gordon Jacob
Cradle Song
Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson.- Miniatures (British Light Music).
- Marco-Polo.
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Jennifer Higdon
String Poetic: II. Nocturne
Performer: Jennifer Koh. Performer: Reiko Uchida.- Violin Recital: Koh, Jennifer - Higdon, J. / Harrison, L. / Adams, J. / Ruggles,.
- Cedille.
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Hubert Parry
Symphony No. 1 in G Minor: II. Andante
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. -
Harry Burleigh
From the Southland Suite: V. On Bended Knees
Performer: Rochelle Sennet.- Bach To Black: Suites for Piano, Vol. II.
- Albany Records.
- 27.
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Florence Price
Adoration
Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Zürcher Kammerorchester.- America.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 14.
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Elena Kats‐Chernin
Phonometrician
Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska.- Kats-Chernin: Unsent Love Letters, Meditations On Erik Satie.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
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Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird: Ballet Suite (1911): IV. The Princesses' Round Dance
Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.- Pierre Boulez Conducts Stravinsky.
- Sony Classical.
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Franz Schubert
Octet In F, D.803: 2. Adagio
Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: Isabelle van Keulen. Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: David Geringas. Performer: Alois Posch. Performer: Eduard Brunner. Performer: Radovan Vlatković. Performer: Klaus Thunemann.- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
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John Ireland
The Holy Boy
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.- Chandos.
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Michael Tippett
A Child of our Time, Part III: Preludium
Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.- Chandos.
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Franz Liszt
Standchen in D Minor
Performer: Lise de la Salle.- naïve classique.
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Gustav Holst
Brook Green Suite: II. Air
Orchestra: English Sinfonia. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.- Holst: Double Concerto / St Paul's Suite / Brook Green Suite.
- Naxos.
- 2.
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Clara Schumann
12 Gedichte aus Liebesfrühling, Op. 37: No. 11, Warum willst du andre fragen
Performer: Anneleen Lenaerts. Performer: Dionysis Grammenos.- Warner Classics.
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Zenobia Powell Perry
Nocturne
Performer: Deanne Tucker.- Cambria.
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Frederick Delius
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.- 40 Most Beautiful Chillout Classics.
- Warner Classics International.
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Margaret Bonds
Montgomery Variations: VI. Lament
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Kellen Gray.- African American Voices II.
- Linn Records.
- 06.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15: 2. Largo
Performer: Stephen Kovacevich. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.- Beethoven: The Piano Concertos; Diabelli Variations; Bagatelles; 8 Sonatas (6).
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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Maurice Ravel
Menuet in C sharp minor
Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.- Erato.
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Alex Patterson
Meditation
Choir: BBC Singers.
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