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Classical music to soothe the soul

A collection of classical tunes to soothe the soul.

A collection of classical tunes to ease the mind and soothe the soul.

Revel in the pensive piano of Erik Satie and Rosey Chan, the choral glow of Eric Whitacre and Paul Mealor, and the orchestral beauty of Jean Sibelius and Gustav Holst.

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An Overcoat Media Production for 大象传媒 Radio 3 Unwind. MM

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Music Played

  • Jean Sibelius

    Andante festivo, JS 34b

    Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲. Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra.
    • BIS.
  • Gustav Holst

    Brook Green Suite: Air

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Leigh O'Hara.
    • EM Records.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    The Beatitudes (Adagio)

    Music Arranger: Remo Giazotto. Orchestra: Capricorn. Ensemble: Choir of New College Oxford. Conductor: Edward Higginbottom.
    • Agnus Dei Volumes 1 & 2.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 1.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Oboe Sonata No. 2, Op. 66: II. Adagio

    Performer: Juliana Koch. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • Gipps: Piper of Dreams.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 2.
  • Harry Burleigh

    My Lord, What a Morning (Arr. for Chamber Ensemble)

    Music Arranger: Philip Spray. Ensemble: Alchymy Viols. Conductor: Philip Spray.
    • Deep River.
    • Navona.
    • 05.
  • Cipriani Potter

    Symphony in B-Flat Major: II. Andante

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • CPO.
  • Jung Jae-il

    Psalm 22.21

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Nightfall.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Erik Satie

    Pr茅lude de la porte h茅ro茂que du ciel

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Erik Satie: The Complete Solo Piano Music.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 7.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act I, Scene 2: No. 8, The Forest of Fir Trees in Winter

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • De Notenkraker.
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 24.
  • Eric Whitacre

    The Seal Lullaby

    Lyricist: Rudyard Kipling. Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Light & Gold.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 7.
  • Undine Smith Moore

    Afro American Suite: I. Nobody Knows the Trouble I See; Brother Will You Pray fo

    Performer: Marcus Eley.
    • Afro American Suite: I. Nobody Knows the Trouble I See; Brother Will You Pray fo.
    • Imaginary Animals.
    • 1.
  • Isobel Waller-Bridge

    For A Moment

    Conductor: Isobel Waller-Bridge. Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.
    • For A Moment.
    • Mercury Classics.
    • 1.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Madama Butterfly, Act II: Coro a bocca chiusa "Humming Chorus"

    Lyricist: Giuseppe Giacosa. Lyricist: Luigi Illica. Choir: Vienna State Opera Choir. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • 銈儵銉ゃ兂銉汇伖銈广儓100.
    • Universal Music LLC.
    • 14.
  • Frederick Delius

    Serenade

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: David Hill.
    • Maltworms & Milkmaids.
    • EMF Endeavours.
    • 5.
  • Florence Price

    The Deserted Garden

    Performer: Laura Kobayashi. Performer: Susan Gray.
    • Feminissimo!.
    • Albany Records.
    • 6.
  • David Bowie

    Where are we now?

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Ben Dawson. Performer: John Harle. Music Arranger: John Harle. Conductor: Richard Balcombe. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra.
    • Rise.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 8.
  • Rosey Chan

    Infinity

    Performer: Rosey Chan. Performer: Sonic Apothecary.
    • Rosey Chan.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 / Act 2

    Lyricist: Lorenzo Da Ponte. Lyricist: Pierre Beaumarchais. Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (Complete Mozart Edition).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.
  • Kerensa Briggs

    Media Vita

    Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Ensemble: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
    • Media Vita.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.
  • Claude Debussy

    La Fille aux cheveux de lin, L. 117

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer. Music Arranger: Lavinia Meijer.
    • Baby Classics - Calm Music to Help Children Fall Asleep.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 12.
  • George Gershwin

    Porgy and Bess: Bess, You Is My Woman Now (Arr. for Violin and Piano)

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Zhu Wang. Lyricist: Ira Gershwin. Lyricist: DuBose Heyward. Lyricist: Dorothy Heyward.
    • Roots.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 8.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    5 Fantasiest眉cke, Op. 5 - No. 2, Serenade. Andante molto

    Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Dvo艡谩k: String Quartet, Op. 106; Coleridge-Taylor: Fantasiest眉cke.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • John Pickard

    3 Latin Motets: No. 1, O nata lux

    Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • John Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
    • 1.
  • Vladimir Cosma

    Promenade sentimentale (From "Diva")

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Symphonic Cinema.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 26.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 40: II. Andante quieto

    Performer: Timothy Hugh. Conductor: Howard Griffiths. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • Finzi: Cello Concerto - Grand Fantasia and Toccata - Eclogue.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Le carnaval des animaux, R 125: VII. Aquarium

    Performer: B茅atrice Muthelet. Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Esther Hoppe. Performer: Florent Jodelet. Performer: Frank Braley. Performer: Gautier Capu莽on. Performer: Michel Dalberto. Performer: Renaud Capu莽on.
    • Symphonic Cinema.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 14.
  • Sarah Class

    Drought

    Performer: Elizabeth Purnell. Performer: Sarah Class. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra.
    • Africa (Original Television Soundtrack).
    • Silva Screen Records Ltd.
    • 20.
  • Edward Elgar

    Lux aeterna [from 'Nimrod' of 'Enigma' variations]

    Music Arranger: John Cameron. Choir: VOCES8.
    • Lux.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Le Tombeau de Couperin, M.68 - 3. Menuet

    Performer: Ralph Gomberg. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra.
    • Boston Symphony Orchestra - Ravel.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 3.
  • Florence Price

    String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor: II Andante cantabile (Arr. for String Ensemble)

    Music Arranger: Jonathan Colbert. Ensemble: Sphinx Virtuosi.
    • Price: String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor: II. Andante cantabile (Arr. Colbert for.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Character Pieces, MA Ms. 44 (selections): II. Andante, in G Major

    Performer: B茅atrice Rauchs.
    • Mendelssohn-Hensel: Piano Sonata in G Minor / 6 Character Pieces.
    • BIS.
    • 6.
  • Stanley Myers

    Cavatina (From "The Deer Hunter")

    Performer: Thibaut Garcia.
    • Symphonic Cinema.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 40.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: III. Poco allegretto

    Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Brahms: Symphonies 1-4.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 3.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    3 Latin Motets, Op. 38: III. Beati quorum via

    Conductor: Stephen Layton. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge.
    • Stanford: 3 Motets & Other Choral Music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Isobel Waller-Bridge

    Emma and Mr Knightley (A Kiss Before They Wed)

    Composer: David Schweitzer. Performer: Isobel Waller-Bridge. Performer: David Schweitzer.
    • MONDO.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

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

    Performer: Pablo Ferr谩ndez. Performer: Denis Kozhukhin.
    • Reflections.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Arvo P盲rt

    F眉r Alina

    Performer: Alexander Malter.
    • Arvo P盲rt: Alina.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 2.
  • Paul Mealor

    Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal (Four Madrigals On Rose Texts)

    Performer: Paul Mealor. Lyricist: Alfred Tennyson. Conductor: Nigel Short. Choir: Tenebrae.
    • A Tender Light.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 1.

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