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Tranquil harmonies for restful moments

Let calming classical melodies guide you to a peaceful state of mind, perfect for moments of relaxation or reflection.

Allow the tranquil harmonies of classical music to carry you away into a restful state. A selection of gentle piano solos, orchestral movements, and choral serenity awaits, offering the ideal soundtrack for quiet moments of reflection and calm.

Featuring new compositions by Olivia Belli, Joby Talbot, Thomas James White, and Lucy Walker. Plus classical favourites by Erik Satie, Gustav Holst, and Edward Elgar.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: I. Morning Mood

    Performer: Alis Huws. Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: I. Morning Mood (Arr. Lawson for Harp).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Kate Bush

    This Woman's Work

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Richard Balcombe. Lyricist: Kate Bush. Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.
    • Rise.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 2.
  • Thomas James White

    Momentary Pause - Solo Piano Version

    Performer: Thomas James White.
  • Kerensa Briggs

    Requiem: IX. In Paradisum

    Performer: Anita Monserrat. Performer: Richard Gowers. Choir: Choir of King’s College, London. Conductor: Joseph Fort.
    • Kerensa Briggs: Requiem.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 9.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    The Swan From "The Carnival of the Animals", R.125

    Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Performer: Gabriella Victoria. Performer: Julian Riem. Music Arranger: Julian Riem.
    • Saint-Saëns The Swan (From "The Carnival of the Animals", R.125, Arr. for Cello,.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.
  • Edward Elgar

    Dream Children, Op. 43

    Orchestra: New Symphony Orchestra of London. Conductor: Raymond Agoult.
    • 50 Smooth Classics (By Classic FM).
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 43.
  • Hideyuki Hashimoto

    Breeze

    Performer: Hideyuki Hashimoto.
    • Breeze.
    • XXIM Records.
    • 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    Trout Quintet: Andante

    Performer: Boris Berezovsky. Performer: Vasko Vassilev. Performer: Christopher Vanderspar. Performer: Tony Hougham. Ensemble: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Singer: Andrew Staples.
    • Schubert: Trout Quintet.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Lucy Walker

    O Nata Lux

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Nightfall.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

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

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

    Adagio for Clarinet & Strings in D-Flat Major

    Performer: Jack Brymer. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Marriner & The Academy - 20th Century Classics.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.
  • Ulysses Kay

    Tender Thought

    Performer: William Chapman Nyaho.
    • Kete - Piano Music of Africa and the African Diaspora.
    • MSR Classics.
    • 2.
  • Frank Bridge

    Summer

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
  • Erik Satie

    Gnossienne No. 1

    Performer: Xuefei Yang. Music Arranger: Roland Dyens.
    • Platoon.
  • Alan Bullard

    Peace In The World (from 'Images of Peace')

    Choir: BBC Singers.
  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Concierto de Aranjuez: II. Adagio

    Performer: Turibio Santos. Conductor: Claudio Scimone. Orchestra: Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Rodrigo : Concierto de Aranjuez, Fantasia, Tonadilla, Zapateado & Fandango.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 2.
  • Pauline Viardot

    Hai Luli!, VWV 1106 (Arr. for Violin, Harp and String Quintet)

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Performer: Lavinia Meijer. Music Arranger: Jan-Peter Klöpfel. Ensemble: Esther Abrami.
    • Hai Luli!, VWV 1106 (Arr. for Violin, Harp and String Quintet by Jan-Peter Klöpf.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.
  • Joseph Horovitz

    Clarinet Sonatina in B-Flat Major: II. Lento, quasi andante

    Performer: Antonio Salguero. Performer: Pedro Gavilán.
    • IBS Classical.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 1: II. Larghetto

    Performer: Stewart Goodyear. Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered, Vol. 1: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Azica Records.
    • 02.
  • Ivo Antognini

    Those Tender Words

    Lyricist: Rumi. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Ivo Antognini: Come to Me in the Silence of the Night - Choral Works.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.
  • Lara Somogyi

    aura

    Composer: Jean‐Michel Blais. Performer: Lara Somogyi. Performer: Jean‐Michel Blais.
    • désert.
    • Mercury Classics.
    • 1.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Enchantment (Beyond The Dream)

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • Navona.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Piano Trio No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 33: II. Adagio Sostenuto

    Performer: Linda di Carlo. Performer: Amedeo Cicchese. Performer: Sergey Galaktionov.
    • Brilliant Classics.
  • Manu Martin

    Lim Cosmic Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra, Act III: II. Come Orbit With Me

    Composer: Matthieu Eymard. Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet. Lyricist: Susan Lim. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Ziegler.
    • Eymard, Manu Martin: Lim Cosmic Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra, Act III: II. C.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Edward MacDowell

    10 Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: No. 1, To a Wild Rose

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • MacDowell: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 07.
  • Matthew Martin

    Justorum animae

    Conductor: Huw Williams. Choir: Bath Abbey Choir.
    • Martin: Justorum animae.
    • CRD.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench. Music Arranger: Alexis Ffrench.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt Suite No. 2, Op. 55, IV. Solveigs Song

    Orchestra: The Royal Festival Orchestra. Conductor: William Bowles.
    • The 50 Greatest Classical Music Pieces.
    • Stradivari Classics.
    • 4.
  • Franz Liszt

    12 Lieder von Franz Schubert, S. 558: No. 7, Frühlingsglaube

    Performer: Aimi Kobayashi.
    • Schubert: Sonata in C Minor, D. 958, 4 Impromptus, D. 935 & Rondo, D. 951.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.
  • Aaron Copland

    Appalachian Spring: VI. Meno mosso

    Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic.
    • Barber: Adagio for Strings & Copland (without digital booklet).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.
  • Joby Talbot

    Transit of Venus

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Ensemble: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • TIME.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor (arr. for piano)

    Performer: Edward Wolanin. Music Arranger: John Gribben.
    • DUX.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh' darein, BWV 2: Chorale. "Das wollst du Gott..."

    Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
    • Bach: Chorale "Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh’ darein".
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Florence Price

    First Romance

    Performer: Lara Downes.
    • Florence Price Piano Discoveries.
    • Flipside Music.
    • 10.
  • Olivia Belli

    Anemos

    Performer: Olivia Belli. Performer: Chris Worsey.
    • Anemos.
    • XXIM Records.
    • 1.
  • Eleanor Dunnet

    Exhale

    Ensemble: BBC Singers.
  • Stephan Moccio

    Fracture

    Performer: Ludvig Hall.
    • Calming Classical Piano Vol. 1 (Relaxation & Comfort).
    • Strange Fruits.
    • 5.

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