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Classical sounds to help you retreat into calm

Retreat from the hustle and bustle of daily life with this calming classical music mix.

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

Slide into warm instrumental sounds by Mozart, Anna Clyne and Lauri Porra, glowing choral textures from William Byrd and Christopher H. Harris, and soothing chamber music by Fela Sowande, Toru Takemitsu and Alexander Tsafman.

Produced by Steven Rajam
An Overcoat Media Production for 大象传媒 Radio 3 Unwind. MM

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in E-Flat Major, K. 375 - III. Adagio

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart at sunset.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 19.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Lo, the full, final sacrifice, Op. 26 - Amen (Instrumental)

    Performer: Amy Dickson. Lyricist: Richard Crashaw. Music Arranger: Paul Mealor. Conductor: Nicholas Collon. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Johannes Brahms

    5 Lieder, Op. 49: No. 4, Wiegenlied (Version for Viola & Piano)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Andrew Armstrong.
    • 5 Lieder, Op. 49: No. 4, Wiegenlied (Version for Viola & Piano).
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 1.
  • Langston Hughes

    Bring me all your dreams

    Composer: Christopher Harris. Conductor: Christopher H. Harris. Choir: London Voices.
    • Oxford University Press Music.
  • Anthony Collins

    Symphony for Strings No.1: II. Adagio molto

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra.
    • Anthony Collins - Vanity Fair.
    • Dutton Epoch.
    • 23.
  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Phonometrician

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska.
    • Kats-Chernin: Unsent Love Letters, Meditations On Erik Satie.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 15.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures at an Exhibition - Promenade II

    Music Arranger: Maurice Ravel. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 3.
  • Toru Takemitsu

    The Last Waltz

    Performer: Andrea Dieci.
    • Brilliant Classics.
  • Michael Nyman

    The Diary of Anne Frank - If

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Music Arranger: John Harle. Conductor: Jessica Cottis. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra.
    • Nyman: The Diary of Anne Frank - Arr. Harle: If.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Zenobia Powell Perry

    Piano Potpourri: No. 5, A Jazz Trifle

    Performer: LaDoris Hazzard Cordell.
    • Cambria.
  • Kerensa Briggs

    Requiem: IX. In Paradisum

    Performer: Anita Monserrat. Performer: Richard Gowers. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, London. Conductor: Joseph Fort.
    • Kerensa Briggs: Requiem.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 9.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59: No. 10. Deep River

    Music Arranger: Alessio Pianelli. Conductor: Alessio Pianelli. Orchestra: Avos Chamber Orchestra.
    • A Sicilian Traveller.
    • Rubicon.
    • 14.
  • Wu Tong

    Rain Falling from the Roof

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Songs of Comfort and Hope.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.
  • J贸n Leifs

    Requiem, Op. 33b

    Lyricist: J贸nas Hallgr铆msson. Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Graham Ross.
    • Leifs: Requiem.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.
  • Jules Massenet

    La Vierge / Scene 4: The Assumption: Le dernier sommeil de la Vi猫rge

    Lyricist: C. Grandmaogin. Conductor: Raymond Agoult. Orchestra: New Symphony Orchestra of London.
    • Clair de Lune - Orchestral Favourites; Waldteufel - Waltzes.
    • Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd..
    • 9.
  • Richard Strauss

    Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments in E-Flat Major, Op. 7

    Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury. Ensemble: Britten Sinfonia.
    • Strauss: Horn Concertos Nos.1 & 2 / Duet Concertino / Serenade.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 7.
  • William Byrd

    Mass for 4 voices (Agnus Dei)

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Byrd: Mass for Four Voices: V. Agnus Dei.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Six Canonic Studies, Op. 56: No. 1, Con moto egual'e dolce (Arr. for Orchestra)

    Music Arranger: Robin Holloway. Conductor: Paul Mann. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra.
    • Brahms by Arrangement, Vol. Two: Orchestrations by Robin Holloway.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 13.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 10 No. 1: II. Adagio molto

    • Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas & Concertos.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.
  • 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.
    • Bach.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 4.
  • Robert de Vis茅e

    Sarabande

    Performer: Toby Carr.
    • Sarabande.
    • 2022 Delphian Records Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane de la belle au bois dormant (Ma m猫re l'oye)

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Ravel: La Valse, Ma M猫re l'Oye, Valses nobles et sentimentales & Daphnis et Chlo.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 13.
  • Nancy Dalberg

    String Quartet No. 1 in D Minor: III. Adagio

    Performer: Hei冒run Petersen. Performer: Mads Haugsted Hansen. Performer: Daniel Eklund. Performer: Lea Emilie Br酶ndal. Ensemble: Nordic String Quartet.
    • Dalberg: The String Quartets.
    • Dacapo.
    • 3.
  • Fela Sowande

    2 Preludes on Yoruba Sacred Folk Melodies: No. 1, K'A Mura

    Performer: Rebeca Omordia.
    • African Pianism, Vol. 2.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 13.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K.581: 2. Larghetto

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Quintet; String Quintet No. 4; Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Lockenha.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 2.
  • Dora Peja膷evi膰

    Piano Concerto, Op. 33: II. Adagio con estro poetico

    Performer: Peter Donohoe. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
  • Vicente Lusitano

    Emendemus in melius - SATB

    Music Arranger: Marques L.A. Garrett. Choir: London Voices.
    • Oxford University Press Music.
  • Roger Eno

    Through The Blue (Piano Version)

    Performer: Roger Eno.
    • Through The Blue (Piano Version).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Krzysztof Penderecki

    3 Pieces in Old Style: No. 1, Aria

    Orchestra: Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Antoni Wit.
    • Penderecki: Sinfoniettas - Oboe Capriccio.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Joby Talbot

    Transit of Venus

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Ensemble: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • TIME.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 5 - IV. Adagietto. Sehr langsam

    Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Gustav Mahler Symphony No.5 - Claudio Abbado.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 4.
  • Sylvius Leopold Weiss

    Fantasia in C Minor (Transcr. for Harp)

    Performer: Magdalena Hoffmann.
    • Weiss: Fantasia in C Minor (Transcr. for Harp).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Florence Price

    Snapshots: Moon Behind a Cloud

    Performer: Samantha Ege.
    • Lorelt.
  • Lauri Porra

    Utu

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska. Singer: Lauri Porra.
    • Platoon.
  • Vincenzo Bellini

    Norma, Act I: Casta Diva (Arr. for Cello & Orchestra by Jan Vogler)

    Performer: Jan Vogler. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Omer Meir Wellber.
    • Norma, Act I: Casta Diva (Arr. for Cello & Orchestra by Jan Vogler) (Radio Edit).
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.
  • Roger Quilter

    Where the Rainbow Ends Suite: No. 1a Rainbow Land (Version for orchestra)

    Conductor: Adrian Leaper. Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Quilter: Where the Rainbow Ends / Country Pieces.
    • Marco-Polo.
    • 1.
  • Max Richter

    Vladimir's Blues

    Performer: Max Richter.
    • The Blue Notebooks (15 Years).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 6.
  • John Williams

    Theme From Schindler's List

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Conductor: John Williams. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra.
    • Schindler's List.
    • Geffen*.
    • 1.
  • John Ireland

    The Holy Boy

    Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London.
    • John Ireland: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.
  • Anna Clyne

    DANCE: III. in the middle of the fighting

    Performer: Inbal Segev. Conductor: Marin Alsop. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Anna Clyne: DANCE 鈥 Elgar: Cello Concerto.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 3.
  • Ernest Bloch

    Enfantines, B. 49: Dream

    Performer: Corinna Simon.
    • Piano for Kids 2.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 5.
  • Alexander Tsfasman

    Jazz Suite: II. Lyrical Waltz

    Performer: Karl鈥怘einz Steffens. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • naive, a label of Believe Group.

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