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Take a pause with relaxing classical sounds

Reserve a moment in your day to unwind, reset and feel refreshed with this mix of soothing classical music.

Reserve a moment in your day to unwind, reset and feel refreshed with this mix of soothing classical music.

With orchestral suites from Dmitri Shostakovich and Avril Coleridge-Taylor, alongside contemporary brilliance from Michael Nyman and Camille Pepin.

Produced by Katie Hill
An Overcoat Media Production for 成人快手 Radio 3 Unwind. MM

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Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16: 2. Adagio

    Performer: Stephen Kovacevich. Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites; Holberg Suites; Piano Concerto.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.
  • Peter Warlock

    Capriol Suite, 2. Pavane

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Fantasia on Greensleeves.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 8.
  • Max Richter

    On the Nature of Daylight

    Performer: Louisa Fuller. Performer: John Metcalf. Performer: Philip Sheppard. Performer: Chris Worsey.
    • The Blue Notebooks (15 Years).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.
  • Rebecca Dale

    Materna Requiem: 6. Paradisum Interlude

    Conductor: Clark Rundell. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Dale: Requiem For My Mother.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    By the lone seashore

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, London. Conductor: Joseph Fort.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Partsongs.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 2.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Suite from the Gadfly, Op. 97a: VIII. Romance

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Piers Lane.
    • Virtuoso Violin.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet In A, K.581 - 2. Larghetto

    Performer: Eduard Brunner. Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Mozart / Weber: Clarinet Quintets.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.
  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de nuit, Op.15 No.1

    Conductor: Sir Mark Elder. Orchestra: Hall茅.
    • Elgar Wand of Youth.
    • Halle Concerts Society.
    • 23.
  • Nadia Boulanger

    3 Pieces for Cello & Piano: No. 1, Mod茅r茅

    Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Performer: Jos茅 Gallardo.
    • Music for Book Lovers: Classical Music for Reading.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • William Grant Still

    Lyric Quartette: II. The Quiet One

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered, Vol. 3: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, William Grant Still & George Walk.
    • Azica Records.
    • 5.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Schwanenlied

    Performer: Eva Oertle. Performer: Consuelo Giulianelli.
    • Lake Reflections - Music for Flute & Harp.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 11.
  • Gustav Mahler

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

    Performer: Edward Wolanin. Music Arranger: John Gribben.
    • DUX.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11

    Choir: Accentus. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France.
    • Faure Requiem.
    • 苍补茂惫别.
    • 09.
  • Matthew Barley

    Concord

    Composer: Benjamin Britten. Performer: Matthew Barley.
    • Around Britten.
    • Signum Records.
    • 22.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Music Arranger: Ralph Greaves. Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The Lark Ascending.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 2.
  • Emilie Mayer

    Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major: III. Un poco adagio

    Ensemble: Mariani Klavierquartett.
    • CPO/ Naxos.
  • Robert A. Harris

    April Rain Song

    Choir: 成人快手 Singers.
  • Robert Schumann

    Abendlied, Op. 85, No. 12 (Arr. for String Orchestra)

    Performer: Daniel Dodds. Music Arranger: Johan Svendsen. Orchestra: Lucerne Festival Strings.
    • Eastbound: Schumann, Dvorak, Schreker (Works for String Orchestra).
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 13.
  • Ludovico Einaudi

    Burning

    Performer: Ludovico Einaudi. Orchestra: I Virtuosi Italiani.
    • In A Time Lapse (Deluxe Edition).
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 14.
  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    Sussex Landscape, Op. 27: II. Lento e molto tranquillo

    Conductor: Roderick Cox. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 7.
  • Joachim Raff

    Sonata for Piano and Cello in D Major, Op. 183 : III. Andante

    Performer: Christoph Crois茅. Performer: Oxana Shevchenko.
    • Joachim Raff 鈥 Complete Works for Cello & Piano.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 8.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets: Venus, the Bringer of Peace

    Conductor: Malcolm Sargent. Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra.
    • Holst: The Planets Op. 32.
    • Sunday Club Records.
    • 2.
  • Nino Rota

    The Godfather: V. Love Theme

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Muti. Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan.
    • Nino Rota - Musica E Sogno.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 5.
  • Gregorio Allegri

    Miserere Mei

    Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Lux.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Lascia ch'io piangia (Rinaldo)

    Performer: Felix Klieser. Ensemble: CHAARTS.
    • Berlin Classics.
  • Michael Nyman

    The Diary of Anne Frank - If

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Music Arranger: John Harle. Conductor: Jessica Cottis. Orchestra: 成人快手 Concert Orchestra.
    • Rise.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.
  • Harry Burleigh

    From the Southland Suite: I. Through Moanin' Pines

    Performer: Rochelle Sennet.
    • Bach To Black: Suites for Piano, Vol. II.
    • Albany Records.
    • 23.
  • Nancy Dalberg

    String Quartet No. 1 in D Minor: III. Adagio

    Performer: Hei冒run Petersen. Performer: Mads Haugsted Hansen. Performer: Daniel Eklund. Performer: Lea Emilie Br酶ndal. Ensemble: Nordic String Quartet.
    • Dalberg: The String Quartets.
    • Dacapo.
    • 3.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 19 - No. 6 Andante sostenuto "Venetianisches Gondellied"

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Gunars Upatnieks. Music Arranger: Andreas Ottensamer. Ensemble: Schumann Quartett.
    • Blue Hour: Mendelssohn Edition.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Camille P茅pin

    The Sound of Trees: Apaise, boise

    Performer: Julien Herv茅. Performer: Yan Levionnois. Orchestra: Orchestre de Picardie. Conductor: Arie van Beek.
    • NoMadMusic.
  • Thomas Tallis

    O Sacrum Convivium

    Performer: Gabriel Crouch. Performer: Gallicantus.
    • Queen Mary's Big Belly: Hope for an Heir in Catholic England.
    • Signum Records.
    • 9.
  • Baal HaSulam

    Melodies of the Upper Worlds (Arr. for Piano): XIII. To Proclaim in The Morning

    Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan. Music Arranger: Mikael Ayrapetyan.
    • HaSulam: Melodies of the Upper Worlds (Arr. M. Ayrapetyan for Piano).
    • Grand Piano.
    • 14.
  • John Tavener

    The Lamb

    Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.
    • Death and the Maiden.
    • Sancho Panza Records.
    • 1.
  • Judith Weir

    Like as The Hart

    Choir: 成人快手 Singers.
  • Samuel Barber

    Adagio for Strings

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • The Berlin Years.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.
  • Trad.

    Romance (Arr. for Guitar & Orchestra)

    Performer: John Williams. Music Arranger: John Williams. Conductor: William Goodchild. Orchestra: String Orchestra.
    • The Ultimate Guitar Collection.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, "From the New World": II. Largo

    Conductor: Aleksandr Veniaminovich Titov. Orchestra: St. Petersburg New Philharmony Orchestra.
    • Dvor谩k: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" - Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 "Classic.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Amy Beach

    By the Still Waters, Op. 114

    Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Summertime.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.

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