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Revitalising Spring sounds for new horizons

As days begin to grow lighter, enjoy this playlist packed with Spring-filled classical sounds to bring you a calming energy.

As days begin to grow lighter, enjoy this playlist packed with Spring-filled classical sounds to bring you a calming energy.

Including hopeful sounds from from Vivaldi鈥檚 Four Seasons, and Stanford鈥檚 鈥楾he Blue Bird鈥. With calming emotional journeys from Howard Skempton鈥檚 鈥楲ento', Anne Boyd鈥檚 鈥楾he Beginning of The Day鈥 and many more.

Produced by James Taylor

An Overcoat Media Production for 大象传媒 Sounds, MM.

Release date:

2 hours, 3 minutes

Music Played

  • Aaron Copland

    Appalachian Spring: VI. Meno mosso

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Barber: Adagio for Strings & Copland (without digital booklet).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.
  • Claude Debussy

    2 Arabesques, L. 66: I. Andantino con moto

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • Harmonia Mundi UK Limited.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in E Major, 'Spring': II. Largo

    Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Orchestra: Virtuosi di Kuhmo.
    • Vivaldi, A.: Four Seasons (The) / Violin Concerto in A Minor.
    • Ondine.
    • 2.
  • Anne Boyd

    The Beginning Of The Day

    Orchestra: Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ron Spigelman.
    • Dream Children.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 11.
  • Nkeiru Okoye

    When Young Spring Comes

    Performer: Lara Downes.
    • Rising Sun Records.
  • Trad.

    My Lord, What a Mornin'

    Music Arranger: Harry Burleigh. Choir: Chattanooga Choral Arts Society. Conductor: Robert Bode.
    • Gothic.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata For Violin And Piano No. 5 In F, 'Spring': 2. Adagio Molto espressivo

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 11.
  • Akira Nakada

    12 Songs for Guitar: Gita no tame no juni no uta: No. 7. A Song of Early Spring

    Performer: Shin-Ichi Fukuda.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 'Jupiter': II. Andante cantabile

    Ensemble: Luxembourg Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Louis de Froment.
    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 40 In G Minor, K. 550.
    • Classical.com Music.
    • 6.
  • Baal HaSulam

    Melodies of the Upper Worlds: XIII. To Proclaim in the Morning About Your Mercy

    Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux Aurumque

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Lyricist: Edward Esch.
    • Light & Gold.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 1.
  • Nino Rota

    Clarinet Sonata in D Major: II. Andante (quasi adagio)

    Performer: Goran Gojevic.
    • Rota: Clarinet Sonata - Clarinet Trio.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • John Farrar

    English Pastoral Impressions: II. Bredon Hill

    Performer: Howard Shelley. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Alasdair Mitchell.
    • Farrar: Orchestral Music.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Les tendres plaintes

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • Rameau: Les tendres plaintes.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • William Grant Still

    Suite for Violin and Piano: II. Mother and Child

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Zhu Wang.
    • Roots.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 10.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt, Op. 23: No. 13, Morning Mood

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Lyricist: Henrik Ibsen. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt; Piano Concerto; Symphony.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 8.
  • Pauline Viardot

    Six Morceaux: Berceuse

    Performer: Laura Kobayashi. Performer: Susan Gray.
    • Feminissimo!.
    • Albany Records.
    • 12.
  • Johannes Brahms

    5 Lieder, Op. 105: No. 1, Wie Melodien zieht es mir

    Performer: Martin Fr枚st. Performer: Roland P枚ntinen.
    • BIS.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Blue Bird

    Music Arranger: Paul Hillier. Choir: Chamber Choir Ireland.
    • RT脡 Lyric.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Nocturne No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Chopin: Pi猫ces pour piano.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 16.
  • Ronald Binge

    The Watermill

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson.
    • Binge: Elizabethan Serenade, Scottish Rhapsody & Other Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 11.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Trio: III. Moderato

    Performer: Renate Eggebrecht. Performer: Friedemann Kupsa. Performer: Angela Gassenhuber.
    • Troubadisc.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia On Greensleeves

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Vaughan Williams: Fantasia On "Greensleeves"; The Lark Ascending / Delius: Two P.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Florence Maude Ewart

    Prelude No. 3

    Performer: Jeanell Carrigan.
    • Wirripang.
  • Anthony Collins

    Symphony for Strings No.1: II. Adagio molto

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra.
    • Anthony Collins - Vanity Fair.
    • Dutton Epoch.
    • 23.
  • Muzio Clementi

    Keyboard Sonata in A Major, Op. 10, No. 1: II. Menuetto: Allegretto con moto

    Performer: Piotr K臋pi艅ski.
    • CD Accord.
  • Thomas Tallis

    O nata lux de lumine

    Performer: Oliver Brett. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • England my England.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.
  • Maria Theresia von Paradis

    Sicilienne

    Performer: Jacqueline du Pr茅. Performer: Gerald Moore. Music Arranger: Samuel Dushkin.
    • Joy of the Cello.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 28.
  • Howard Skempton

    Lento

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth.
    • NMC Recordings.