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Get set for the morning with peaceful classical music

Calming classical music to inspire focus and set you up for the day ahead. Presented by broadcaster, author and counselling psychologist Dr Sian Williams.

Calming 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 refreshing and energising music from Dorothy Howell, Saint-Saens, and Haydn. Sian follows a stream as she takes a breath outside, and Professor Catherine Loveday joins the show to explore how music can help people with Parkinson鈥檚 disease.

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Music Played

  • Percy Grainger

    Handel in the Strand

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic.
    • Chandos.
  • Ivo Antognini

    Come to Me

    Singer: Helena Paish. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    8 Bible Vignettes (3rd mvt, 'Desert Interlude')

    Performer: Denver Oldham.
    • New World Records.
  • Frederick Delius

    Brigg Fair ('An English Rhapsody')

    • Extreme Music Library.
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto

    Amore

    Performer: Ryuichi Sakamoto.
    • WM Japan.
  • Joseph Horovitz

    Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano (2nd mvt, Lento)

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Julien Quentin.
    • DG.
  • Grace Williams

    Penillion (1st mvt, Moderato cantando)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • Lyrita.
  • Leo Brouwer

    Un Dia de Noviembre

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰.
    • DG.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Petite Suite de Concert (3rd mvt, 'Un sonnet d'amour')

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Parnther.
    • Decca.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio in E flat major ('Notturno')

    Ensemble: Gould Piano Trio.
    • Resonus Classics.
  • Judith Bingham

    The Drowned Lovers

    Choir: Tenebrae. Singer: Martha McLorinan. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Signum.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Carnival of the Animals (No 9, 'The Cuckoo in the Depths of the Woods')

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome.
    • Warner Classics.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in C Major, 'Alexander's Feast', HWV 318 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
  • Alexis Ffrench

    Thought Streams

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench.
    • KPM MUSIC LTD/JUICE MUSIC UK LTf.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 57 in D major (2nd mvt, Adagio)

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Orchestra: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Decca.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Piece en Forme de Habanera

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The Guy Barker Orchestra. Conductor: Guy Barker.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Amy Woodforde-Finden

    4 Indian Love Lyrics (3rd mvt, 'Kashmiri Love Song')

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Music Arranger: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Amerco.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 6 in F major, Op 68, 'Pastoral' (2nd mvt, 'Scene by the Brook')

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Donald Runnicles.
  • Richard Allain

    3 Spirituals ('When I'm Gone')

    Choir: National Youth Choir. Conductor: Mike Brewer.
    • Delphian Records.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    6 studies in English Folksong, No 4 ('She Borrowed Some of Her Mother's Gold)

    Performer: Anthony Pike. Performer: John Lenehan.
    • Naxos.
  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite (2nd mvt, 'Elegy')

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 23 in A major (2nd mvt, Adagio)

    Performer: Dejan Lazi膰. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestra: Jan Willem de Vriend.
    • Challenge Classics.
  • Peter Sculthorpe

    Great Sandy Island (5th mvt, 'Dune Dreaming')

    Orchestra: Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp.
  • C茅cile Chaminade

    S茅r茅nade in D Major, Op 29

    Performer: Peter Jacobs.
    • Hyperion.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Habanera

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
  • Dorothy Howell

    If You Will Come to Cort茅

    Choir: 大象传媒 Singers.
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Violin Concerto in G major Op 2 No 1 (2nd mvt, Largo)

    Performer: Fumika Mohri. Orchestra: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice. Conductor: Michael Hal谩sz.
    • Naxos.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle, Op 126 No 1 in G Major

    Performer: Nicolas Hodges.
  • Marianna Martines

    Symphony in C major (2nd mvt, Andante ma non troppo)

    Orchestra: Salzburger Hofmusik. Conductor: Wolfgang Brunner.
    • CPO.
  • Kim Porter

    Pulchra es et Decora

    Ensemble: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Hania Rani

    Dreamy

    Performer: Hania Rani.
    • Gondwana Records.
  • Florian Christl

    Choral

    Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Harper.
    • SONY.
  • William Byrd

    Mass for Five Voices - Agnus Dei III

    Performer: The Gesualdo Six. Performer: Owain Park.
    • HYPERION.

Broadcasts

  • Wed 15 Jan 2025 09:00
  • Sunday 09:00