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Soundtrack your evening with relaxing classical music

Niall Breslin brings you calming classical music to help you release the stresses of the day, recharge and prepare to rest.

Three hours of calming classical music to help you release the stresses of the day, recharge and prepare to rest - presented by Irish musician and mindfulness expert Niall Breslin.

This episode features a rich blend of music from the likes of Fanny Mendelssohn, Hania Rani and Elgar 鈥� plus some essential Wind Down Wisdom from science podcaster Caroline Steel on a small and meaningful way to prepare for rest.

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Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    2 Chansons, Op. 15: No. 1, Chanson de nuit (Orchestral Version)

    Conductor: Andrew Davis. Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra.
    • Elgar Essentials.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 22.

  • Konstantia Gourzi

    wind whispers, Op. 85: II. floating leaf

    • Konstantia Gourzi: Whispers.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 2.

  • Erik Satie

    Gnossienne No. 1

    • Chandos Records Limited.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Humming Chorus (Madame Butterfly)

    Choir: Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ivan Repu拧i膰.
    • Famous Opera Choruses.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 6.

  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Butterflying

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska.
    • ABC CLASSICS.

  • Rachel Portman

    Flight

    Conductor: Erina Yashima.
    • Rachel Portman: Tipping Points, Vivaldi/Kerschek: The New Four Seasons.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 8.

  • Gustav Holst

    A Moorside Suite, H. 173: II. Nocturne. Adagio

    • Chandos.

  • Dario Marianelli

    Life on the Moors

    Conductor: Benjamin Wallfisch.
    • Jane Eyre - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 16.

  • Arvo P盲rt

    Spiegel im Spiegel

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Martin Roscoe.
    • Fratres.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 11.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    The Willow Song (Othello - suite Op.79)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Fawzi Haimor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Sophie Hutchings

    Swimming Into The Light

    Music Arranger: Sophie Hutchings.
    • A World Outside.
    • Mercury Classics.
    • 7.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quartet In F Major K.168

    Ensemble: Chaos String Quartet.

  • Alexandra Hamilton鈥怉yres

    Doubts

    Lyricist: Alexandra Hamilton鈥怉yres.
    • Play Echoes.
    • LEITER Verlag GmbH & Co. KG.
    • 9.

  • Jennifer Higdon

    All Things Majestic (String Lake)

    Orchestra: Nashville Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero.
    • Higdon: All Things Majestic, Viola Concerto & Oboe Concerto (Live).
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

  • Don Macdonald

    When the Earth Stands Still

    Choir: Lyyra.
    • When the Earth Stands Still.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Adagio (After Bach's Keyboard Concerto, BWV 974)

    Music Arranger: Gabriela Montero.
    • Bach and Beyond.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.

  • Olivia Belli

    Valadier

    Music Arranger: Enrico Belli. Music Arranger: Olivia Belli.
    • Intermundia.
    • XXIM Records.
    • 4.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Nocturne: Clair de lune (Pan Voyevoda - Suite, No 3)

    Orchestra: Russian State Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.
    • Russian Adagios.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 3.

  • Ludovico Einaudi

    Full Moon

    Music Arranger: Michael Lewin.
    • The Moon & The Forest.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 8.

  • Claude Debussy

    Suite bergamasque, CD 82, L. 75: III. Clair de lune (Orch. Ducros)

    Conductor: Adrien Perruchon. Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris.
    • Emotions.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

  • Lloyd Coleman

    Luminescence

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Palmer.

  • Henry Purcell

    Music for a While (from Oedipus, Z. 583)

    • Night Passages.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

  • Philip Glass

    贵补莽补诲别蝉

    Performer: John Harle. Performer: Simon Haram. Orchestra: London Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Warren鈥怗reen.
    • Minimalists.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 105.

  • Orlande de Lassus

    La nuit froide et sombre (arr for string quartet)

    Music Arranger: Sini Simonen. Ensemble: Castalian String Quartet.
    • Delphian.

  • Leo Brouwer

    Un Dia de noviembre

    Performer: Ricardo Cobo.
    • The Latin American Guitar.
    • NAXOS.
    • 4.

  • Ryuichi Sakamoto

    MUJI2020

    Performer: Ryuichi Sakamoto.
    • Playing The Piano 12122020.
    • Commmons.
    • 2.

  • Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Wandrers Nachtlied II, D. 768 (Transcr. for Cello and Piano)

    Lyricist: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
    • Schubert: Wandrers Nachtlied II, D. 768 (Transcr. for Cello and Piano).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Stephan Moccio

    The Wanderer

    • Legends, Myths and Lavender.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 3.

  • Florian Christl

    Lights

    • Episodes.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 5.

  • Paul Lewis

    English Suite: Meditation

    Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • ENGLISH STRING MINIATURES, Vol. 4.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Chia-Pei Chen

    Passages of Time

    • Ravel In The Forest.
    • Platoon.
    • 1.

  • Julie Cooper

    Illusion

    • Julie Cooper: Oculus.
    • Signum Records.
    • 4.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Rameau: Les tendres plaintes-Rondeau, RCT 3/1

    • WAVES: Music by Rameau, Ravel, Alkan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 22.

  • Carlos Simon

    Be Still and Know

    • Navona.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Respighi: 6 Pieces for Piano, P. 44: No. 3. Notturno. Lento (Version for Harp)

    • Nightscapes.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Florence Price

    Night

    Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Music Arranger: Tom Poster.
    • Path to the Moon.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

Broadcasts

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