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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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Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Enfants D'Un Reve, Op 43 (2nd mvt, 'Dream Children')

    Conductor: James Judd. Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
    • Naxos.
  • Healey Willan

    Rise up, my love, my fair one, Op 314

    Choir: Elora Festival Singers. Conductor: Noel Edison.
    • Naxos.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Song for Orchestra, Op 33

    Performer: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Performer: Rumon Gamba.
    • Chandos.
  • Hideyuki Hashimoto

    Koto

    Performer: Hideyuki Hashimoto.
  • Karl Jenkins

    Miserere: Songs of Mercy and Redemption (No 4, 'Sacramentum')

    Performer: Abel Selaocoe. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia.
    • Decca.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op 48 (2nd mvt, Waltz, Moderato)

    Conductor: Yutaka Sado. Orchestra: Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich.
    • Tonkunstler Orchestra.
  • Trad.

    Visa Från Utanmyra

    Orchestra: Göteborgs symfonietta. Conductor: Tomas Blank.
    • Naxos.
  • Florence Price

    Piano Sonata in E Minor, arr for reed quintet (2nd vvt, Andante)

    Ensemble: Calefax Reed Quintet.
    • Pentatone.
  • Florian Christl

    Bulgaria

    Performer: Florian Christl.
    • Sony.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op 19 (3rd mvt, Andante)

    Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • DG.
  • Franz Schmidt

    Symphony No 1 in E Major (2nd mvt, Langsam)

    Conductor: Jonathan Berman. Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales.
    • Accentus Music.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    6 Schlüber Chorales, BWV645-650

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach. Performer: Mark Bebbington.
    • SOMM.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Missa Pape Marcelli ('Kyrie')

    Orchestra: Oxford Camerata. Conductor: Jeremy Summerly.
    • Naxos.
  • Armas Järnefelt

    Berceuse for Small Orchestra (1904)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • Sony.
  • Lü Wencheng

    Autumn moon over a calm lake

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • DG.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Cantique de Jean Racine, Op 11

    Choir: Accentus. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France.
    • Բï.
  • William Grant Still

    Wood Notes (3rd mvt, 'Moon Dusk': Slowly and expressively)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • Naxos.
  • Toru Takemitsu

    12 Songs For Guitar, No 5, ('Amours Perdues')

    Composer: Joseph Kosma. Performer: Giacomo Palazzesi.
    • Extended Place.
  • Eric Coates

    From Meadow to Mayfair Suite for Orchestra (1st mvt, In The Country: 'Rustic Dance')

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Lera Auerbach

    24 Preludes for Violin and Piano, Op 46 (No 15, Adagio sognando)

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Jacques Ammon.
    • DG.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Adagio Con Variazioni, P 133

    Performer: Guy Johnston. Conductor: Carlo Rizzi. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome.
    • Hyperion.
  • Ethel Barns

    L'escarpolette

    Performer: Ofer Falk. Performer: Irina Lyakhovskaya.
    • Trinity College London Press.
  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    Tenebrae Responsories (2nd mvt, O vos omnes - si est dolor)

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • ERATO.
  • Max Janowski

    Avinu Malkeinu

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • DECCA.
  • Joanna Marsh

    Thou Hast Searched Me and Known Me

    Choir: National Youth Choir.
    • NYCGB.
  • 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.
  • Hugo Alfvén

    Symphony No 1 in F Minor, Op 7 (2nd mvt, Andante)

    Conductor: Łukasz Borowicz. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin.
    • CPO.
  • William H. Tyers

    Meno D'Amour

    Orchestra: The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra. Conductor: Rick Benjamin.
    • New World.
  • John Ireland

    Cavatina

    Performer: Paul Guinery.
    • EM Records.
  • 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.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Guitare

    Performer: Otto Tolonen.
    • Alba.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No 8 (Andante)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Extreme.
  • Lavinia Meijer

    6 Piéces pour harpe a pedales (no 1)

    • Channel.

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