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Uplifting harmonies for peaceful reflection

Calming musical light and shade to uplift your body and mind - to lighten the darkness and lift your mood.

Calming musical light and shade to uplift your body and mind - to lighten the darkness and lift your mood.

Featuring warm and reflective orchestral textures from Camille Saint-Sa毛ns, Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k and Ludwig van Beethoven, plus sweet instrumental sounds by Rachel Portman, Zenobia Powell-Perry and John Field.

Produced by James C Taylor
An Overcoat Media production for 大象传媒 Radio 3 Unwind, MM

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New Year's Day 2025 14:00

Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Suite bergamasque, CD 82, L. 75: III. Clair de lune

    Performer: Andrew von Oeyen.
  • Frederick Delius

    Two Aquarelles: No. 1, Lento, ma non troppo

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
  • Amy Beach

    Dreaming, Op. 15: No. 3

    Performer: Eline Marlene.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Introit, Op. 6

    Performer: Thomas Gould. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
  • Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Cello Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 49: II. Largo, molto espressivo

    Performer: Torleif Thed茅en. Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Eije Oue.
  • Sylvius Leopold Weiss

    Fantasia in C Minor

    Performer: Magdalena Hoffmann.
  • Frank Ticheli

    Earth Song

    Ensemble: VOCES8. Conductor: Barnaby Smith.
  • Gang Chen

    Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto: III. Adagio Assai Doloroso

    Composer: Zhanhao He. Performer: Joshua Bell. Orchestra: Singapore Chinese Orchestra. Conductor: Tsung Yeh.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance in E Minor, Op 72: No 2

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Orchestras.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Nocturnes, Op. 27: No. 2 in D Flat Major. Lento sostenuto

    Performer: Jan Lisiecki.
  • Pietro Mascagni

    Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Orchestras.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Saint-Sa毛ns: The Swan (Le Cygne)

    Performer: Han鈥恘a Chang. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
  • William Grant Still

    Lyric Quartette: II. The Quiet One

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
  • Zenobia Powell Perry

    Piano Potpourri: No. 5, A Jazz Trifle

    Performer: LaDoris Hazzard Cordell.
  • Kerensa Briggs

    Requiem: IX. In Paradisum

    Performer: Richard Gowers. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, London. Director: Joseph Fort.
  • Claude Debussy

    Des pas sur la neige

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Orchestras.
  • Laurindo Almeida

    Lament in Tremelo Form

    Performer: William Chapman Nyaho.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.27 in B flat major, K.595 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra.
  • Henry Purcell

    Thou Knowest, Lord, the Secrets of Our Hearts, Z. 58c

    Choir: The Gesualdo Six. Conductor: Owain Park.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Blumine

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Cello Sonata, FP 143: II. Cavatine

    Performer: Daniel M眉ller鈥怱chott. Performer: Robert Kulek.
  • Lucy Walker

    Intuition

    Ensemble: 大象传媒 Singers.
  • William Walton

    5 Bagatelles: 2. Lento

    Performer: Nicola Hall.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Viola Concerto in G Major: Largo

    Performer: Ladislav Kysel谩k. Conductor: Richard Edlinger. Orchestra: Capella Istropolitana.
  • Vicente Lusitano

    Emendemus in melius

    Ensemble: 大象传媒 Singers.
  • William Lawes

    Fantasy in G

    Performer: 大象传媒 Orchestras.
  • John Field

    Nocturne No. 8 in E Flat Major, H.30

    Performer: Elizabeth Joy Roe.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    "Ich steh mit einem Fu脽 im Grabe", Cantata BWV 156: Sinfonia

    Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Radoslaw Szulc.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major: V. Cavatina. Adagio molto espressivo

    Ensemble: Mir贸 Quartet.
  • Max Richter

    On the Nature of Daylight

    Choir: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Performer: Anna Lapwood.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Zdes' khorosho ('How Fair This Spot'), Op. 21, No. 7

    Performer: Pablo Ferr谩ndez. Performer: Denis Kozhukhin.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for Harpsichord, Oboe, Strings, & Continuo in D minor, BWV 1059: Adagio

    Performer: Diana Doherty. Ensemble: Ironwood.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Mahler Adagietto Variation (From Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor)

    Performer: Gabriele Bagnati. Performer: Esther Abrami.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Pavane, Op. 50

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
  • Kerensa Briggs

    Media vita

    Choir: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
  • Rachel Portman

    recollection

    Performer: Rachel Portman.
  • Marianna Martines

    Ouverture in C Major: II. Andante ma non troppo

    Ensemble: La Floridiana.
  • Florence Price

    Snapshots Moon Behind a Cloud

    Performer: Samantha Ege.

Broadcasts

  • Wed 6 Nov 2024 06:00
  • Tue 19 Nov 2024 14:00
  • Saturday 06:00
  • New Year's Day 2025 14:00
  • Fri 17 Jan 2025 06:00