Elevate your evening with soothing music
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 Rosey Chan, Sufjan Stevens and Nils Frahm. Plus, a chance to Press Pause with meditation teacher Michael James Wong, and some essential Wind Down Wisdom from science podcaster Caroline Steel on the benefits of being in your own company.
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Charles Gounod
Ave Maria (meditation on Bach's prelude in C)
Performer: Mari Samuelsen. Performer: Julien Quentin.- Gounod: Ave Maria, CG 89a (After J.S. Bach: Prelude in C Major, BWV 846).
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 1.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Melodie (5 Fantasy pieces, Op 3 No 3)
Performer: Kotaro Fukuma.- Fantasy.
- Naxos.
- 10.
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Arthur Bliss
Meditation 5: In green pastures (Meditations on a theme of John Blow)
Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.- Bliss: Mary of Magdala, The Enchantress & Meditations on a Theme by John Blow.
- Chandos.
- 111.
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John Blow
Salvator mundi
Performer: Timothy Byram-Wigfield. Performer: Hilary Brooks. Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Ensemble: Baroque Brass of London. Conductor: Martin Neary.- Croft: The Burial Service: Winchester Cathedral Choir/Neary.
- EMI Classics.
- 10.
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Elliott Jack Sansom
Melody To Freedom
Performer: Elliott Jack Sansom.- Finding Beauty.
- Decca.
- 16.
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Jean Cras
Cello sonata (2nd mvt)
Performer: Astrig Siranossian. Performer: Nathanaël Gouin.- Invisibles.
- Alpha Classics.
- 2.
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A Blomqvist & Carlos Hof
Que des Souvenirs
- Que des Souvenirs.
- Nordic Euphony Records.
- 1.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No 44 in E minor (Mourning) - 3rd mvt
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Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Gavotte with 6 variations
Performer: Bruce Liu.- WAVES: Music by Rameau, Ravel, Alkan.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 1.
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Oliver Davis
Coral Suite - II
Ensemble: Beth & Flo. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Bateman.- Oliver Davis: Blue.
- Signum Records.
- 4.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quintet in G minor, K 516 (3rd mvt)
Performer: John Crockatt. Ensemble: Consone Quartet. -
Tony Woollard
Icarus
Performer: Tony Woollard.- Bigo & Twigetti.
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Florence Price
Adoration
Music Arranger: Elaine Fine. Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Zhu Wang.- Decca.
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Sufjan Stevens
Reflexion
Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque. Performer: David Chalmin. Performer: Bryce Dessner.- Sonic Wires.
- Universal Music Division Decca Records France.
- 2.
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice)
Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Juliette Hurel. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.- WARNER.
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Astor Piazzolla
Ave Maria arr. for cello & piano
Performer: Fulvia Mancini. Performer: Benjamin Engeli.- Passionate Cello & Piano Works.
- Halidon.
- 1.
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Sophie Hutchings
Dreaming The Stars
Performer: Sophie Hutchings.- A World Outside.
- Mercury Classics.
- 1.
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Franz Schubert
Die Nacht, D 983/4
Choir: Sonat Vox. Conductor: Justus Merkel.- Animato.
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Marta Cascales Alimbau
Moonlit
Performer: Marta Cascales Alimbau.- Moonlit.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 1.
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Luise Adolpha Le Beau
Symphony No 1 (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Paterson. -
Nils Frahm
Ambre
Performer: Nils Frahm.- ERASED TAPES RECORDS LTD.
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J.J. Johnson
Lament (arr. for violin & piano)
Performer: Kristin Lee. Performer: Jeremy Ajani Jordan. Music Arranger: Jeremy Ajani Jordan.- American Sketches.
- First Hand.
- 6.
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Tayla-Leigh Payne
Meditation
Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Parkinson. -
Diana Yukawa
For You
- Spirals.
- 1631 Recordings.
- 14.
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Rebecca Dale
Paradisum Interlude (Materna Requiem)
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.- Dale: Requiem For My Mother.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 6.
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Aphex Twin
Avril 14th
- Drukqs.
- Warp Records.
- 9.
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Jacques Offenbach
Barcarolle (Tales of Hoffmann)
Singer: Fatma Said. Singer: Marianne Crebassa. Orchestra: Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sascha Goetzel.- Kaleidoscope.
- Warner Classics.
- 7.
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Phoria
Nouveau-Ne (Re-Imagined)
- Caught a Black Rabbit.
- Akira Records.
- 2.
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John Barry
The Beyondness of Things
Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: John Barry.- Decca.
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Akira Kosemura
Looking in the same direction
Performer: Akira Kosemura.- Rudy.
- Schole Records.
- 31.
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Brandee Younger
Brown Brown Baby
Performer: Brandee Younger.- Serenity: A Collection Of Mindful Meditations.
- Impulse!.
- 6.
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John Field
Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat major (2nd mvt: Scottish Air, 'Within a mile of Edinburgh Town')
Performer: Benjamin Frith. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: David Haslam.- Field: Piano Concertos, Nocturnes & Sonatas.
- Naxos.
- 102.
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Six Missing
On Being
- Summer Folds.
- Nettwerk Music Group.
- 3.
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Helen Ostafew
A New Horizon
Performer: Helen Ostafew. -
Jon Uijtjens
Melancholic Waves
Performer: Jon Uijtjens. -
Joey Roukens
Silent Echoes
Performer: Lucas Jussen. Performer: Arthur Jussen. Orchestra: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Karina Canellakis.- Study Focus 2022.
- UMG Recordings, Inc..
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Eleanor Dunnet
Exhale
Conductor: David Hill. Choir: ѿý Singers. Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. -
Rosey Chan
Water is Life
Performer: Rosey Chan.- Sonic Apothecary.
- Rosey Chan.
- 9.
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Abilene
Sweetest Rain
- Winged Dreams.
- Signum Records.
- 6.
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Mike Olsen
Mayday
- Falling Forward.
- Hand Drawn Dracula.
- 2.
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John Ireland
The Holy Boy
Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: James Baillieu. Music Arranger: Lionel Tertis.
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