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Savour the moment with restorative classical music

Take some time to unwind with this calming, serene collection of classical music.

Take some time to unwind with this calming, serene collection of classical music. With music from Franz Schubert, Stanley Myers, Margaret Bonds and Gustav Holst, alongside contemporary excellence from Sophie Hutchings and Hania Rani.

Produced by Katie Hill
An Overcoat Media Production for ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3 Unwind. MM

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Fri 13 Dec 2024 06:00

Music Played

  • Léo Delibes

    Coppélia, Act 3: No. 20c, Fête de la cloche. La prière

    Conductor: Kent Nagano. Orchestra: Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon.
    • Les plus belles musiques de ballet - Radio Classique.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 16.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Conductor: Barry Wordsworth. Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Concert Orchestra.
    • The Last Night of the Proms Collection.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.
  • Edward John Margetson

    A few more years shall roll

    Conductor: Edward John Margetson. Ensemble: London Voices.
    • Oxford University Press Music.
  • Max Richter

    Dream 13 (Short Edit)

    Performer: Clarice Jensen. Performer: Ben Russell. Performer: Yuki Numata Resnick. Performer: Max Richter.
    • Sleep (Remixes).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 13.
  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Concierto de Aranjuez: II. Adagio

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

    2 Arabesques, L. 66: I. Andantino con moto

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • Harmonia Mundi UK Limited.
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Chamber Sonata No. 3 in D Major: I. Grave

    Ensemble: Musica Fiorita.
    • Harmonia Mundi UK Limited.
  • Peter Warlock

    The First Mercy

    Composer: Bruce Blunt. Composer: Raymond Bennell. Performer: Nadine Benjamin. Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: David Hill.
    • EMF Endeavours.
  • Charlotte Sohy

    Premier Quatuor, Op. 25: II. Sérénité

    Ensemble: Quatuor Hermès.
    • Charlotte Sohy: Chamber Music.
    • La Boîte à Pépites.
    • 2.
  • William Walton

    Henry V: Touch Her Soft Lips and Part

    Lyricist: William Shakespeare. Conductor: John Rutter. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Choir: The Cambridge Singers.
    • This Is the Day: Music on Royal Occasions.
    • Collegium.
    • 15.
  • Adolphus Hailstork

    Spirituals Suite: Wade in the Water

    Performer: James Kosnik. Ensemble: Eastern Virginia Brass Quintet.
    • Amazing Grace: Organ Music of Adolphus Hailstork.
    • Albany Records.
    • 5.
  • Frank Bridge

    Summer

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: Die Torrente in via bibet

    Performer: Angela Kazimierczuk. Performer: Katherine Fuge. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Choir: Monteverdi Choir.
    • Vivaldi: Gloria / Handel: Dixit Dominus.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 26.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Sonata no.1 in C minor Op.4 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Chopin: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 - 3.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.
  • Arvo Pärt

    Summa

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • John Rutter

    A Choral Amen

    Conductor: John Rutter. Choir: The Cambridge Singers.
    • O Praise the Lord of Heaven.
    • Collegium.
    • 12.
  • Sakiko Nagashima

    Pouter

    Performer: Eri Ishibashi. Performer: Maki Kasai.
    • OMF.
  • William Walton

    Sonata for String Orchestra: III. Lento

    Conductor: Edward Gardner. Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
  • Olivia Belli

    Grain Moon

    Performer: Anna Lapwood. Performer: Olivia Belli.
    • Grain Moon.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Pace

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Errollyn Wallen: Peace on Earth.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 3.
  • Zenobia Powell Perry

    Pavanne

    Performer: Josephine Gandolfi.
    • Zenobia Powell Perry: Piano Works.
    • Cambria.
    • 8.
  • Leroy Anderson

    Irish Suite: V. The Last Rose of Summer

    Conductor: Leonard Slatkin. Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Concert Orchestra.
    • Anderson, L.: Orchestral Music, Vol. 4 - Irish Suite / Scottish Suite / Alma Mat.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.
  • William Alwyn

    2 Irish Pieces: No. 1, From the Countryside

    Performer: Ashley Wass.
    • Alwyn, W.: Piano Music, Vol. 2 - 12 Preludes / Contes Barbares / Movements.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Henry Purcell

    King Arthur, "The British Worthy": II. Air

    Lyricist: John Dryden. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock. Orchestra: The English Concert.
    • Purcell: Dido & Aeneas / King Arthur / Dioclesian / Timon of Athens / 3 Odes.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 25.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in C Sharp Minor, Op. 64 No. 2: Tempo giusto

    Performer: Ji Liu.
    • Pure Chopin.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 2.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Oboe Concerto in D Minor, Op. 9 No. 2: II. Adagio

    Performer: Pierre Pierlot. Conductor: Claudio Scimone. Orchestra: I Solisti Veneti.
    • Albinoni : Oboe & Violin Concertos - Apex.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 2.
  • Johann Pachelbel

    Suite For Lute In F Sharp Minor, 3: Sarabande

    Performer: Göran Söllscher. Music Arranger: Göran Söllscher.
    • A Baroque Guitar Weekend.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 23.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 85: No. 6 Allegretto con moto

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Yuja Wang. Music Arranger: Andreas Ottensamer.
    • Blue Hour – Weber, Brahms, Mendelssohn.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 5.
  • Edvard Grieg

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

    Performer: Stephen Kovacevich. Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra.
    • Grieg & Schumann: Piano Concertos.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 2.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Son of Mary

    Ensemble: London Voices.
    • Oxford University Press Music.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Fantasy for Guitar Op. 107: III. Arietta 1

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Dreams and Fancies: English Music for Solo Guitar.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 14.
  • Thomas Tallis

    If Ye Love Me

    Performer: Andrew Fletcher. Ensemble: Ex Cathedra. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • The Sound Corporation.
  • Judith Lang Zaimont

    Serenade (version for piano trio)

    Performer: Awadagin Pratt. Performer: Melissa White. Performer: Paul Wiancko.
    • Navona.
  • Jules Massenet

    La Vierge, Pt. 4: Le dernier sommeil de la Vierge

    Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Orchestra: Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Massenet: Scènes dramatiques, Scènes de féérie, Scènes alsaciennes & Scènes pitt.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 8.
  • Robert Schumann

    Kinderszenen, Op. 15 - 7. Träumerei

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Schumann: Kinderszenen – Meisterwerke.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 7.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 80: II. Andante

    Performer: Philippe Graffin. Conductor: Michael Hankinson. Orchestra: Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor • Dvořák: Violin Concertos.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 2.
  • Philip William John Stopford

    Do Not Be Afraid

    Conductor: Philip Stopford. Choir: Ecclesium Choir.
    • Priory Records Ltd.
  • Hania Rani

    Spring

    Performer: Hania Rani.
    • Matthew Halsall t/a Gondwana Records.
  • Erik Satie

    Gymnopédie No. 1

    Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Orchestrator: Jérôme Ducros. Conductor: Adrien Perruchon. Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris.
    • Satie: Masterpieces.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Requiem, Op. 48: Offertoire

    Performer: Lisa Beckley. Performer: Nicholas Gedge. Performer: Jeremy Summerly. Choir: Oxford Camerata. Choir: Schola Cantorum of Oxford. Conductor: Colm Carey.
    • Faure: Requiem / Messe Basse.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
    • 2.

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