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Gentle classical music for a restful mind

Enjoy the calming power of classical music, with soft piano, choral, and orchestral pieces to create a peaceful atmosphere for relaxation.

Take a break and let the gentle sounds of classical music help you unwind. Soft piano, choral, and orchestral pieces provide the perfect soundtrack for peaceful moments.

Featuring soothing music by Antonio Vivalidi, Karl Jenkins, Rebecca Clarke, and Frédéric Chopin. And captivating performances from The Sixteen, Anna Lapwood, Mariam Batsashvili, and more.

Produced by James C Taylor
An Overcoat Media Production for ѿý Radio 3 Unwind, MM

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Music Played

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in E Major, Op. 8 No. 1, "Spring": II. Largo

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

    Liebesträume, S. 541: No. 1 in A-Flat Major, Hohe Liebe

    Performer: Mariam Batsashvili.
    • Lizst: Liebesträume, S. 541: No. 1, Hohe Liebe.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • John Rutter

    Suite: O, Waly Waly

    Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones. Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia.
    • English String Miniatures, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Karl Jenkins

    Cantilena

    Performer: Karl Jenkins.
    • Karl Jenkins: Piano.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 1.
  • Aaron Copland

    Appalachian Spring: I. Very Slowly

    Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic.
    • Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, Billy the Kid & Fanfare for the Common Man.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Ivo Antognini

    Come to Me

    Lyricist: Christina G. Rosetti. Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir.
    • Come to Me.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Akira Nakada

    12 Songs for Guitar: No. 7: A Song of Early Spring

    Music Arranger: Toru Takemitsu. Performer: Shin-Ichi Fukuda.
    • Japanese Guitar Music, Vol. 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Locus Iste

    Lyricist: Anton Bruckner. Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Renaissance - Music for Inner Peace.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 9.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Much Ado About Nothing, Op. 11, Suite: IV. Intermezzo \"Garden Scene\"

    Performer: Bomsori. Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jakub Hrůša.
    • Korngold: Much Ado About Nothing, Op. 11, Suite: IV. Intermezzo \"Garden Scene\".
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Johannes Brahms

    6 Piano Pieces, Op. 118: No. 2, Intermezzo in A Major

    Performer: Martin James Bartlett.
    • Brahms: 6 Piano Pieces, Op. 118: No. 2, Intermezzo in A Major.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Andrea Morricone

    Cinema Paradiso

    Composer: Ennio Morricone. Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Conductor: Stéphane Denève. Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic.
    • Cinema.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Firebird - Suite (1919) - Round Dance Of The Princesses

    Orchestra: National Theater Opera Orchestra of Paris. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 8.
  • Augusta Holmès

    La Nuit et l'Amour: Interlude de l'ode symphonique

    Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland‐Pfalz. Composer: Samuel Friedmann.
    • Augusta Holmès: Orchestral Works.
    • SWR Digital.
    • 4.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Serse, HWV 40, Act 1, Scene 1: Arioso. "Ombra mai fù": Largo

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Sir Neville Marriner Conducts Handel.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 23.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Alleluia

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Water Night EP.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 1.
  • Florence Price

    Adoration

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Zhu Wang.
    • Roots.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream, Incidental Music, Op. 61: No. 7, Nocturne...

    Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos 1-5, Overtures, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
    • LSO Live.
    • 20.
  • Karen Tanaka

    Water Dance I

    Performer: Signe Bakke.
    • Crystalline - Piano Music by Karen Tanaka.
    • 2L.
    • 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467: II. Andante

    Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart, W.A.: Klavierkonzerte Nr. 21 & 27.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.
  • Trad.

    My Lord, What a Mornin'

    Music Arranger: Harry Burleigh. Choir: Chattanooga Choral Arts Society. Conductor: Robert Bode.
    • Gothic.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Mother Goose Suite, M. 60: I. Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty

    Orchestra: Festivalový orchestr Praha. Conductor: Pavel Urbanek.
    • Meditation: Classic Care - Music for Healthy Living for Calming Reflection & Qui.
    • Cobra Entertainment LLC.
    • 24.
  • Elliott Jack Sansom

    Finding My Feet

    Performer: Elliott Jack Sansom.
    • Finding My Feet.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 1.
  • Hubert Clifford

    Five English Nursery Tunes IV. Curly Locks

    Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Chandos.
  • Robert Lucas Pearsall

    Lay a garland

    Choir: ѿý Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.
  • Frédéric Chopin

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

    Performer: Pablo Ferrández. Performer: Julien Quentin.
    • Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Rebecca Clarke

    I'll bid my heart be still

    Performer: Philip Dukes.
    • Clarke, R: Viola Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Requiem, Op. 48: IV. Pie Jesu

    Performer: Grace Davidson. Music Arranger: Barnaby Smith. Ensemble: Meridian. Conductor: Irene Messoloras.
    • Serenity – Choral Music from Fauré to Prauliņš.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.
  • Nitin Sawhney

    New Tribes

    Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nitin Sawhney.
    • Human Planet (Soundtrack from the TV Series).
    • Silva Screen Records Ltd.
    • 24.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 65: III. Largo

    Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Franck & Chopin: Cello Sonatas.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.
  • Edward Elgar

    Lux Aeterna

    Music Arranger: John Cameron. Lyricist: Anon.. Conductor: Christopher Lowrey. Choir: Ensemble Altera.
    • Dazzling Light.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 12.
  • Chevalier J.J.O. de Meude-Monpas

    Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major: II. Adagio

    Performer: Rachel Barton Pine. Orchestra: Encore Chamber Orchestra.
    • Meude-Monpas / Saint-Georges / White / Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concertos by Bla.
    • Cedille.
    • 2.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq.30: Dance of the Blessed Spirits

    Ensemble: Duo Arcos.
    • Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq.30: Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Arr. for Violin a.
    • Azul Music.
    • 1.
  • Erik Satie

    3 Sarabandes: No. 2

    Performer: Reinbert de Leeuw.
    • Satie: Gnossiennes; Gymnopédies; Ogives; Trois Sarabandes; Petite ouverture à da.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 13.
  • William Henry Harris

    Faire is the heaven

    Lyricist: Edmund Spenser. Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • A New Heaven.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 3.
  • Dora Pejačević

    Piano Concerto, Op. 33: II. Adagio con estro poetico

    Performer: Peter Donohoe. Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
  • Rita Strohl

    Solitude

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Performer: Kim Barbier. Music Arranger: Esther Abrami.
    • Solitude (Arr. for Violin and Piano by Esther Abrami).
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.
  • Imogen Holst

    Variations on "Loth to Depart": Theme

    Performer: Alice Farnham. Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra.
    • Imogen Holst: Discovering Imogen.
    • NMC Recordings Limited.
    • 2.
  • Franz Liszt

    Consolations, S. 172: No. 1 in E Major. Andante con moto

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Consolations, S. 172/No. 1 in E Major. Andante con moto.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Rachel Portman

    Tipping Points: II. Air

    Performer: Niklas Liepe. Orchestra: WDR Funkhausorchester. Conductor: Erina Yashima.
    • Rachel Portman: Tipping Points.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 4.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Oboe Concerto, Op. 20: II. Andante

    Performer: Juliana Koch. Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Chandos Records Limited.

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