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Soundtrack your evening with relaxing classical

Niall Breslin brings you calming classical music to help you release the stresses of the day, recharge and prepare to rest.

Three hours of calming classical music to help you release the stresses of the day, recharge and prepare to rest - presented by Irish musician and mindfulness expert Niall Breslin.

This episode features a rich blend of music from the likes of Rachel Portman, Park Jiha and Arvo P盲rt. Plus, a chance to Press Pause with meditation teacher Michael James Wong, and some essential Wind Down Wisdom from science podcaster Caroline Steel about how doing the ironing might have benefits beyond crease-free clothes.

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Music Played

  • Ernest Tomlinson

    Little Serenade

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson.
    • Tomlinson: Silverthorn Suite / Little Serenade.
    • Marco-Polo.
    • 1.

  • Edwin York Bowen

    Melody for the C-String, Op 51 No 2

    Performer: Yue Yu. Performer: Anthony Hewitt.
    • Bowen, Britten & I. Holst: Chamber Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 101.

  • Rachel Portman

    One Day - Piano Suite

    Performer: Rachel Portman.
    • Sony.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Os justi

    Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Benjamin Goodson.

  • Justus R眉menapp

    Serenade pour Nadja

    Performer: Justus R眉menapp. Orchestra: Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg. Conductor: Christian K枚hler.
    • S茅r茅nade pour Nadja.
    • Justus R眉menapp.
    • 1.

  • Frederick Delius

    Suite for Violin and Orchestra: I. Pastorale

    Performer: Nicolas Dautricourt. Performer: Fr茅d茅ric Chaslin. Music Arranger: Fr茅d茅ric Chaslin. Ensemble: Capriccio Quartet.
    • Elgar: Violin Concerto & Salut d'amour - Delius: Suite.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 5.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Harp concerto in B flat major, HWV 294 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Marie鈥怭ierre Langlamet. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Handel: Harp Concerto in B-Flat Major.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings.
    • 2.

  • Annelie

    Love

    Performer: Annelie.
    • C.
    • Ambitus.
    • 2.

  • Hans Gerle

    Auff Erd lebt nit ein schoneres Weyb (There is no more beautiful woman on earth)

    Performer: Magnus Andersson.
    • Music for Lute from Nuremberg.
    • Rondeau Production.
    • 4.

  • Max Richter

    Arbenita (11 Years)

    Singer: Sarah Leonard. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Memoryhouse.
    • Late Junction.
    • 11.

  • Florence Price

    Clouds

    Performer: Beatrice Nicholas.
    • Beatrice Nicholas.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Arietta (Lyric Pieces, Book 1 No 1) arr. for guitar

    Performer: Alexandra Whittingham. Music Arranger: Michael Lewin.
    • Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Book 1, Op. 12: No. 1, Arietta (Arr. Lewin for Guitar).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Nocturne from A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Mendelssohn : Symphony No.4 & A Midsummer Night's Dream.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.

  • Franz Schubert

    Du bist die Ruh (You are rest and peace), D 776, arr. for cello & piano

    Performer: Massimiliano Martinelli. Performer: Jonathan Floril. Music Arranger: Massimiliano Martinelli.
    • Schubert: Cello and Piano Works.
    • Halidon.
    • 3.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Sicut cervus

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Palestrina: Sicut cervus: I. Sicut cervus.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Rei Fujiwara

    Akogare

    Performer: Rei Fujiwara.
    • Shinrin-yoku.
    • Wander World Music.
    • 7.

  • Rued Langgaard

    Symphony No 1 (Pastorals of the rocks) - 2nd mvt: Mountain Flowers

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Mark Slater

    Next Winter

    Performer: Mark Slater.
    • E2 Music.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Largo from Violin concerto in G minor, BWV 1056

    Performer: Ilia Korol. Orchestra: Die Freitagsakademie.
    • Bach Concertos: Lost and Found.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 6.

  • Lambert

    Four Walls Two

    Performer: Lambert.
    • Actually Good.
    • Mercury Classics.
    • 4.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Silent Woods (From the Bohemian Forest, Op.68), vers. for viola & piano

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Alasdair Beatson.

  • Dobrawa Czocher

    Lullaby

    Performer: Dobrawa Czocher.
    • Lullaby (single).
    • Modern Recordings.
    • 1.

  • Hinako Omori

    asagao

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gabriella Teychenn茅.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String quartet No 6 in B flat major, Op 18 No 6 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Melos Quartett.

  • Regina Harris Baiocchi

    A candle burns time (Piano poems, No 4)

    Performer: Sarah Cahill.
    • The Future is Female, Vol. 3, 'At Play'.
    • First Hand Records.
    • 4.

  • Vetle Naero

    Waves

    • Waves.
    • 7K!.
    • 1.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Concerto for violin & cello in A minor, Op 102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Gautier Capu莽on. Orchestra: Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Brahms: Double Concerto in A Minor, Op. 102.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

  • Tom Kinsella

    Back to Loneliness

    Performer: Tom Kinsella.
    • Back to Loneliness (single).
    • Moderna Records.
    • 1.

  • Ludovico Einaudi

    Due tramonti

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • Passaggio.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 11.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Grande Fantaisie in F minor, arr. from Piano Quartet, K 478 (2nd mvt)

    Music Arranger: Ignaz von Seyfried. Orchestra: Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • New Mozart Vol. 2.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 6.

  • Susumu Yokota

    Shinsen

    Performer: Susumu Yokota.
    • Sakura.
    • Lo Recordings.
    • 11.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Noon Siesta from Tropic Winter

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • My Cup Runneth Over.
    • NAVONA.
    • 6.

  • Park Jiha

    On Water

    Performer: Park Jiha.
    • Philos.
    • Glitterbeat Records.
    • 8.

  • Hans Zimmer

    Now we are free (from Gladiator)

    Composer: Lisa Gerrard. Performer: Tony Ann.
    • Now We Are Free (From "Gladiator" - Piano Version).
    • Universal Music Division Decca Records France.
    • 1.

  • Jon Uijtjens

    Return To The Ocean

    • Jon Uijtjens - Neo Rhapsody.
    • Neogarde.
    • 1.

  • Misha Mullov-Abbado

    The Stage Hand

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Parkinson.

  • James Heather

    Ultraviolet

    Remix Artist: Alexandra Hamilton鈥怉yres.
    • Reworks: Vol2.
    • Ahead Of Our Time.
    • 4.

  • Arvo P盲rt

    Vater Unser

    Performer: Camille Thomas. Performer: Julien Brocal.
    • Voice Of Hope (Extended Edition).
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 19.

  • Rival Consoles

    Quiet Home

    • Now Is.
    • Erased Tapes.
    • 11.

  • Hubert Clifford

    Curly Locks (from 5 English nursery tunes)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Chandos.

Broadcasts

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