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Take a moment to relax by listening to this collection of soothing classical music.

Featuring the ѿý Concert Orchestra performing Leo Delibes, Tenebrae performing William Henry Harris, and the Chineke! Orchestra performing Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. This mix also includes pieces from Maurice Ravel, Ruth Gipps, Margaret Bonds, and Thomas Tallis.

Produced by Katie Hill
An Overcoat Media Production for ѿý Radio 3 Unwind. MM

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  • Léo Delibes

    Lakmé / Act 1: "Sous le dôme épais" (Flower Duet)

    Lyricist: Edmond Gondinet. Lyricist: Philippe Gille. Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Vissi d'Arte - Opera for Orchestra.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.
  • Amy Beach

    Piano Concerto in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 45: III. Largo

    Performer: Danny Driver. Conductor: Rebecca Miller. Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Beach, Chaminade & Howell: Piano Concertos (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 70).
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Quod chorus vatum

    Conductor: Gabriel Crouch. Ensemble: Gallicantus.
    • Queen Mary's Big Belly: Hope for an Heir in Catholic England.
    • Signum Records.
    • 10.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Minuet in G Major, WoO 10, No. 2

    Ensemble: I Musici.
    • Pachelbel: Canon / Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik / Albinoni: Adagio.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 9.
  • Joe Hisaishi

    HANA-BI

    Conductor: Joe Hisaishi. Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker.
    • ѱáí.
    • Universal Music LLC.
    • 2.
  • Margaret Bonds

    Bright Star (Arr. for String Quartet)

    Music Arranger: Ellie Consta. Ensemble: Her Ensemble.
    • Her Ensemble.
  • Roderick Elms

    Cantilena for Guitar and Orchestra

    Performer: Carlos Bonell. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth. Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra.
    • Roderick Elms: Visions of St Anne and Other Orchestral Works.
    • Signum Records.
    • 5.
  • Eleanor Dunnet

    Exhale

    Ensemble: ѿý Singers.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Chant du menestrel, Op. 71

    Performer: Jamie Walton. Conductor: Okko Kamu. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Glazunov: Concerto Ballata, Prokofiev: Concertino & Tchaikovsky: Variations on a.
    • Signum Records.
    • 2.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Four Charactertistic Waltzes, Op. 22: No. 1, Valse Bohemienne

    Performer: Matthew Schellhorn. Performer: Maya Magub.
    • CRD Records.
  • Eric Coates

    By the Sleepy Lagoon

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • Elizabethan Serenade: The Best of British Light Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Dora Pejačević

    Cello Sonata in E Minor, Op. 35: III. Adagio Sostenuto

    Ensemble: Trio RoVerde.
    • Brilliant Classics.
  • H. Leslie Adams

    Contrasts: II. Lament

    Performer: Rochelle Sennet.
    • Bach to Black: Suites for Piano.
    • Albany Records.
    • 36.
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Violin Concerto No. 2 in A Major, Op. 5: II. Largo

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Ensemble: Mutter’s Virtuosi.
    • Bach, Bologne, Previn, Vivaldi, Williams.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 15.
  • William Henry Harris

    Faire is the Heaven

    Ensemble: Tenebrae.
    • Allegri Miserere.
    • Signum Records.
    • 13.
  • Lara Somogyi

    aura

    Composer: Jean‐Michel Blais. Performer: Lara Somogyi. Performer: Jean‐Michel Blais.
    • é.
    • Mercury Classics.
    • 1.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 4 in E Minor. Largo

    Performer: Jan Lisiecki.
    • Preludes by Chopin, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Messiaen, Górecki.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Performer: Jonathan Snowden. Performer: Skaila Kanga. Music Arranger: Ralph Greaves. Conductor: Christopher Warren‐Green. Orchestra: London Chamber Orchestra.
    • Musique au coin du feu (Radio Classique).
    • Warner Classics.
    • 17.
  • Matthew Martin

    Justorum animae

    Conductor: Huw Williams. Choir: The Choir of Bath Abbey.
    • Martin: Justorum animae.
    • CRD.
    • 1.
  • Emánuel Moór

    Piano Trio in B-Flat Major, Op. 89: III. Adagio

    Ensemble: Storioni Trio.
    • CPO.
  • Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E-Flat Major: I. Adagio ma non troppo

    Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.
    • Mendelssohn Felix and Fanny.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Ahronovitch.
    • Russian Spectacular.
    • LSO Live.
    • 2.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Ambarvalia, Op. 70

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Gipps: Orchestral Works Vol. 3.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 02.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Silhouettes, Op. 8, B. 98: No. 2 in D-Flat Major. Andantino

    Performer: Jonas Vitaud.
    • Vers un monde nouveau.
    • Mirare.
    • 7.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 102: II. Andante

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 102: II. Andante.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Florence Price

    Presbyterian Communion Service in F: I. Kyrie

    Conductor: Dr. Stephen Caldwell. Choir: University of Arkansas Schola Cantorum.
    • Hill Records.
  • Marin Marais

    Pièces de viole, Livre 3, Suite No. 6 in G Minor: No. 87, Minuet

    Performer: Clare O'Connell.
    • Stone Records Ltd.
  • George Gershwin

    Summertime

    Composer: Art Marshall. Ensemble: Nexas Quartet.
    • Da Vinci Classics.
  • Federico Moreno Torroba Ballesteros

    Sonatina: II. Andante

    Performer: Carlotta Dalia.
    • Berlin Classics.
  • Clara Schumann

    3 Lieder, Op. 12: No. 11, "Warum willst du and're fragen"

    Performer: Felicitas M. A. Pielsticker. Music Arranger: Felicitas M. A. Pielsticker.
    • Clara Schumann: 3 Lieder, Op. 12: No. 11, "Warum willst du and're fragen" (Arr..
    • Andante Piano.
    • 1.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets, Op. 32: II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace

    Conductor: Daniel Harding. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • The Planets.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 2.
  • Ivor Gurney

    5 Elizabethan Songs: No. 4, Sleep

    Performer: Grace Davidson. Performer: Libby Burgess.
    • Ivor Gurney: 5 Elizabethan Songs: No. 4, Sleep.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    Préludes: I. La colombe

    Performer: Jan Lisiecki.
    • Preludes by Chopin, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Messiaen, Górecki.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 4.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Violin concerto in G minor Op.80 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 80: II. Andante semplice.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune

    Composer: Schimmer Music Publishing B.V.. Performer: German Dmitriev. Performer: Houston Fry.
    • Houston Fry.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Antar (After N. Rimsky-Korsakov): No. 7, Allegretto

    Performer: André Dussollier. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon.
    • Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.
  • William Walton

    Sonata for String Orchestra: III. Lento

    Conductor: Edward Gardner. Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
  • Eric Whitacre

    i thank you God

    Choir: ѿý Singers.

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