Calming winter music to lift your mood
Calming wintery classical music to inspire focus and set you up for the day ahead. Presented by broadcaster, author and counselling psychologist Dr Sian Williams.
Calming wintery classical music to help you focus and set you up for the day ahead. Presented by broadcaster, author and counselling psychologist Dr Sian Williams.
Featuring uplifting and enriching seasonal melodies from Tchaikovsky, Florence Price, and Karl Jenkins, this special winter episode explores the smells of the season. Plus, Professor Catherine Loveday explains how it is possible to use music to banish the winter blues.
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Alexander Glazunov
The Seasons, Op 67, Pt 1 'Winter': No. 2, Winter Scene, No. 3, Frost Variation
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.- EMI.
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Henry Purcell
Now Winter Comes Slowly from tne Fairy Queen
Ensemble: Sjaella.- Fuga Libera.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Aquarium
Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.- Harmonia Mundi.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Snow Maiden, Op 12 'Snegourotchka' (10th mvt, 'Melodrama')
Orchestra: Metamorphose String Orchestra. Conductor: Pavel Lyubomudrov.- HALIDON.
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Sophie Hutchings
Flowers in Snow
Performer: Sophie Hutchings.- DECCA.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No 7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (4th mvt, 'Intermezzo')
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.- WARNER.
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Florence Price
Song for Snow
Performer: Libby Burgess. Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas. -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
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Alexis Ffrench
Winter Nights
Performer: Alexis Ffrench.- SONY.
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John Rutter
Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.- Universal.
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脫lafur Arnalds
For Now I am Winter
Performer: Arn贸r Dan. Performer: Nils Frahm.- Phillips.
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Joseph Haydn
Die Jahrezeiten (4th mvt, Winter)
Performer: Colin Davis. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra.- Phillips.
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Rebecca Dale
Winter
Performer: VOCES8. Performer: Mari Samuelsen. Performer: H氓kon Samuelsen.- DECCA.
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Takashi Yoshimatsu
White Landscapes, Op 47 No 1, Divination by snow
Performer: John Barrow. Performer: Kate Wilson. Performer: Jonathan Price. Performer: Sachio Fujioka. Ensemble: Manchester Camerata.- Chandos.
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Henri Duparc
Aux 脡toiles
Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon. Conductor: Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider.- PALAZETTO.
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R. Nathaniel Dett
Tropic Winter: VI. Noon Siesta
Performer: Clipper Erickson.- My Cup Runneth Over: The Complete Piano Works of R. Nathaniel Dett.
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Claude Debussy
Des pas sur la neige
Performer: Quintessenz. Performer: Gudrun Hinze.- GENUIN.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
S茅r茅nade d'Hiver
Performer: amarcord.- APOLLON.
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Alexander Gadjiev
Improvisation, 'Cold'
Performer: Alexander Gadjiev. -
Karl Jenkins
Stella Natalis, 'Sleep, Child of Winter'
Choir: Tenebrae.- EMI.
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Mary Lattimore
Pine Trees
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Jean Sibelius
Valse Triste
Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thomas S酶nderg氓rd. -
Judith Bingham
The darkness is no darkness
Choir: VOCES8.- DECCA.
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Georgy Sviridov
The Snowstorm, (8th mvt, Echoes of Waltz)
Performer: Vladimir Fedoseyev.- MEZHDUNARODNAYA KNIGA.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
Das Jahr - January
Performer: Lauma Skride. -
Evelyn Glennie
Light in Darkness
Performer: Evelyn Glennie.- SONY.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Winter Bonfire, Op 122 (2nd mvt, snow outside the window)
Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. -
Astor Piazzolla
The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, 'Winter'
Performer: Thibaut Garcia. -
Jacques Offenbach
Ballet des flocons de neige - Les hirondelles bleues
- ALBI Classical.
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Robert Schumann
Album fur die Jugent, Op 68, 39, Winterzeit II
Performer: Vladimir Feltsman.- WYASTONE.
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Jonathan Reeves
Celestial Winter Night
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Max Richter
Winter 3
Performer: Elena Urioste. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra.- DG.
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Franz Schubert
Winterreise, S 561 (8th mvt, Der Lindenbaum)
Composer: Franz Liszt. Performer: Leslie Howard.- Hyperion.
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Anna Lapwood
Winter Time
Conductor: Anna Lapwood.- SONY.
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Jacob Shea
The Arctic Suite, (1st Mvt, Frozen World)
Performer: Eldbj酶rg Hemsing. Orchestra: Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra.- SONY.
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Frank Bridge
Winter Pastoral
Performer: Mark Bebbington.- SOMM.
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Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt Suite No 2, Op 55 (4th mvt, Solveig's Song)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- DG.
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William Alwyn
3 Winter Poems (No. 3. Serenade, "Snow shower")
Ensemble: The Bridge String Quartet.- NAXOS.
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Ludovico Einaudi
Elegy for the Arctic
Performer: Ludovico Einaudi.- DECCA.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Dance of the sugar plum fairy
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker - Act 1, Scene 2, 'March'
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Ola Gjeilo
Wintertide
Choir: Royal Holloway Choir. -
Gustav Holst
St Paul's Suite, Finale
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Francis Poulenc
Un soir de neige, Fp 126 (3rd mvt, Bois meutri)
Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.- CORO.
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