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Get ready for the day with restorative classical music

Calming classical music to inspire focus and set you up for the day ahead. Presented by broadcaster, author and counselling psychologist Dr Sian Williams.

Calming classical music to help you focus and set you up for the day ahead. Presented by broadcaster, author and counselling psychologist Dr Sian Williams.

Featuring charming, uplifting tunes from Grace Williams, Jean Sibelius and Gerald Finzi, this episode explores whether music is really a universal language, and Sian takes a breath in the garden with her dog Molly.

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Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Serenade for Strings (3rd mvt, Allegretto)

    Orchestra: Hall茅.
    • Halle Concerts Society.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat major (2nd mvt, Larghetto)

    Conductor: Ivor Bolton. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Extreme Music Library.

  • Agust铆n Barrios Mangor茅

    A Dream in the Forest

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰.
    • DG.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 5 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Orfeo.

  • Benjamin Britten

    6 Metamorphoses after Ovid ('Niobe')

    Performer: Robin Williams.
    • Factory Benelux.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux Aurumque

    Choir: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • Signum.

  • H茅l猫ne de Montgeroult

    Piano Sonata in F minor Op 5 No 2 (2nd mvt, Aria con espressione)

    Performer: Nicolas Horvath.
    • Grand Piano.

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Four Weddings and a Funeral ('Love Scene')

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart.

  • Samuel Barber

    Violin Concerto (2nd mvt, Andante)

    Performer: Esther Yoo. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • DG.

  • Alexis Ffrench

    Gently Flow

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench.
    • Juice Music.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Adagio in G minor

    Performer: Stephanie Gonley. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Signum.

  • Amy Beach

    Scottish Legend, Op.54`1

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Guild.

  • Thomas Tallis

    Spem in Alium

    Choir: 成人快手 Singers. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.

  • Grace Williams

    Sea Sketches ('Sailing Song')

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: John Andrews.
    • Resonus Classics.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Eclogue

    Performer: Tom Poster. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Decca.

  • Sue Rothstein

    Flying with the Birds

    Performer: Gwenllian Ll欧r.
    • Sain.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 99 in E flat major (2nd mvt, Adagio)

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Warner.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude No 16 in G minor (from Well-Tempered Klavier Book 2)

    Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Love Songs Waltz

    Performer: Unknown.
    • Landscape Classics.

  • Florence Price

    String Quartet No 1 in G major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Viano Quartet.
    • Platoon.

  • Joe Hisaishi

    Howl's Moving Castle ('Main Theme')

    Performer: Adrien Duterte. Performer: Arnaud Forestier.
    • Owaru.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 5 in E flat major (2nd mvt, Andante)

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: John Storg氓rds.
    • Chandos.

  • Craig Armstrong

    Romeo & Juliet: Balcony Scene

    Performer: Craig Armstrong. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • Virgin.

  • Franz Schubert

    6 Moments Musicaux, Op 94 No 2 in A flat major

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.
    • DG.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Song of Proserpine

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Joseph Fort.
    • Delphian Records.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor (2nd mvt, Largo)

    Performer: Simon Trpceski. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Avie Records.

  • Luise Adolpha Le Beau

    Cello Sonata (2nd mvt, Andante tranquillo)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Connie Shih.
    • Hyperion.

  • Leo Brouwer

    Concerto Elegiaco (2nd mvt, Interlude)

    Performer: Julian Bream. Orchestra: RCA Victor Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Leo Brouwer.
    • RCA Red Seal.

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