Begin your day with refreshing 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 flowing, soothing melodies from Rachmaninov, Ethel Barns, and Palestrina. Sian is inspired by a distant horizon, and Professor Catherine Loveday explains how is our brain able to distinguish different instruments from each other when we listen to music.
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Edward Elgar
Enfants D'Un Reve, Op 43 (2nd mvt, 'Dream Children')
Conductor: James Judd. Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.- Naxos.
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Healey Willan
Rise up, my love, my fair one, Op 314
Choir: Elora Festival Singers. Conductor: Noel Edison.- Naxos.
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Ruth Gipps
Song for Orchestra, Op 33
Performer: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Performer: Rumon Gamba.- Chandos.
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Hideyuki Hashimoto
Koto
Performer: Hideyuki Hashimoto. -
Karl Jenkins
Miserere: Songs of Mercy and Redemption (No 4, 'Sacramentum')
Performer: Abel Selaocoe. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia.- Decca.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op 48 (2nd mvt, Waltz, Moderato)
Conductor: Yutaka Sado. Orchestra: Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich.- Tonkunstler Orchestra.
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Trad.
Visa Från Utanmyra
Orchestra: Göteborgs symfonietta. Conductor: Tomas Blank.- Naxos.
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Florence Price
Piano Sonata in E Minor, arr for reed quintet (2nd vvt, Andante)
Ensemble: Calefax Reed Quintet.- Pentatone.
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Florian Christl
Bulgaria
Performer: Florian Christl.- Sony.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op 19 (3rd mvt, Andante)
Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Performer: Yuja Wang.- DG.
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Franz Schmidt
Symphony No 1 in E Major (2nd mvt, Langsam)
Conductor: Jonathan Berman. Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales.- Accentus Music.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
6 Schlüber Chorales, BWV645-650
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach. Performer: Mark Bebbington.- SOMM.
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Missa Pape Marcelli ('Kyrie')
Orchestra: Oxford Camerata. Conductor: Jeremy Summerly.- Naxos.
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Armas Järnefelt
Berceuse for Small Orchestra (1904)
Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.- Sony.
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Lü Wencheng
Autumn moon over a calm lake
Performer: Lang Lang.- DG.
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Gabriel Fauré
Cantique de Jean Racine, Op 11
Choir: Accentus. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France.- Բï.
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William Grant Still
Wood Notes (3rd mvt, 'Moon Dusk': Slowly and expressively)
Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.- Naxos.
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Toru Takemitsu
12 Songs For Guitar, No 5, ('Amours Perdues')
Composer: Joseph Kosma. Performer: Giacomo Palazzesi.- Extended Place.
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Eric Coates
From Meadow to Mayfair Suite for Orchestra (1st mvt, In The Country: 'Rustic Dance')
Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.- CHANDOS.
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Lera Auerbach
24 Preludes for Violin and Piano, Op 46 (No 15, Adagio sognando)
Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Jacques Ammon.- DG.
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Ottorino Respighi
Adagio Con Variazioni, P 133
Performer: Guy Johnston. Conductor: Carlo Rizzi. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome.- Hyperion.
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Ethel Barns
L'escarpolette
Performer: Ofer Falk. Performer: Irina Lyakhovskaya.- Trinity College London Press.
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Tomás Luis de Victoria
Tenebrae Responsories (2nd mvt, O vos omnes - si est dolor)
Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.- ERATO.
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Max Janowski
Avinu Malkeinu
Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Ensemble: VOCES8.- DECCA.
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Joanna Marsh
Thou Hast Searched Me and Known Me
Choir: National Youth Choir.- NYCGB.
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Phil Cunningham
Loch Katrine's Lady
Performer: Ryan Corbett. Music Arranger: Ryan Corbett. -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Concerto in G Minor, BWV 1056 (2nd mvt, Largo)
Performer: Leonidas Kavakos.- SONY.
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Hugo Alfvén
Symphony No 1 in F Minor, Op 7 (2nd mvt, Andante)
Conductor: Łukasz Borowicz. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin.- CPO.
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William H. Tyers
Meno D'Amour
Orchestra: The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra. Conductor: Rick Benjamin.- New World.
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John Ireland
Cavatina
Performer: Paul Guinery.- EM Records.
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Manuel de Falla
El Sombrero de Tres picos (Pt 2, 'Danza de los vecinos')
Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. -
Frederick Delius
Violin Concerto ('Slower')
Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra.- CHANDOS.
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Germaine Tailleferre
Guitare
Performer: Otto Tolonen.- Alba.
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Franz Schubert
Symphony No 8 (Andante)
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.- Extreme.
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Lavinia Meijer
6 Piéces pour harpe a pedales (no 1)
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