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Peaceful Proms Special: Soothing sounds for moments of calm

Relax with three hours of the most calming classical music that has previously featured at the BBC Proms.

Relax into a Peace Proms Morning with three hours of the most calming classical music that has previously featured at the BBC Proms.

With classical favourites by Joseph Haydn, Carl Orff, and Maurice Ravel; plus glowing harmonies from Caroline Shaw, Avril Coleridge-Taylor, and George Walker.

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

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Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (2nd mvmt, Andante)

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Orchestra: The Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces.
    • Simax Classics.

  • Claude Debussy

    Rêverie, L. 68

    Performer: François‐Joël Thiollier.
    • Naxos.

  • George Butterworth

    Two English Idylls: No. 2, Adagio non troppo

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Krišs Russman.
    • BIS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37: 2. Largo

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Kurt Sanderling.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Caroline Shaw

    And the Swallow

    Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Ensemble: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Ensemble: Pembroke College Girls' Choir.
    • Signum Records.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A Major, K. 622: II. Adagio

    Performer: Wenzel Fuchs. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Alan Gilbert.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings.

  • Dora Pejačević

    Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op. 35: III. Adagio Sostenuto

    Performer: Janne Fredens. Performer: Søren Rastogi.
    • OUR Recordings.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 2: II. With Plaintive Notes (Air)

    Performer: Mary Bevan. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • Linn Records.

  • Roger Quilter

    Where the Rainbow Ends Suite: No. 2 Rosamund

    Conductor: Adrian Leaper. Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Marco-Polo.

  • Jake Runestad

    Let My Love Be Heard

    Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Max Richter

    On the Nature of Daylight

    Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Performer: Anna Lapwood.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Erik Satie

    3 Gymnopédies: 3 Gymnopedies: No. 2, Lent et triste

    Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd. Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Naxos.

  • Grace-Evangeline Mason

    Glass Cathedrals

    Performer: Lauren Scott.
    • AVIE Records.

  • George Walker

    Lyric for Strings

    Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Tognetti.
    • Lyric for Strings.
    • ABC Classic.
    • 1.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    The Evening Star

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, London. Conductor: Joseph Fort.
    • Delphian Records.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus No. 6 in Stylo Francese

    Performer: Pierre‐Laurent Aimard.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Gerald Finzi

    Romance in E-Flat Major, Op. 11

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • Naxos.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 1: II. Andante

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Carl Orff

    Carmina Burana: In trutina

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Conductor: Michael Stern. Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke’s.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane For A Dead Princess

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de France.
    • DENON Classics.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83: III. Andante

    Performer: Christopher Adkins. Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin. Orchestra: Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Carnival of the Animals - The Swan

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Jeneba Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.

  • Florence Price

    An Elf on a Moonbeam

    Performer: Anna Lapwood.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Arvo Pärt

    The Deer's Cry

    Ensemble: VOCES8. Conductor: Barnaby Smith.
    • VOCES8 Records.

  • Edward Elgar

    Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85: III. Adagio

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • harmonia mundi.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048: II. Adagio

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Pietro Mascagni

    Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.
    • Onyx Classics.

  • Ben Parry

    Flame

    Choir: National Youth Choir.
    • NYCGB.

  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

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

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Roderick Cox.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Elizabeth Poston

    An English Day-Book (Sweet Suffolk Owl)

    Choir: NYCoS National Girls Choir. Performer: Claire Jones. Conductor: Christopher Bell.
    • Signum Records.

  • Eric Whitacre

    The River Cam

    Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber. Conductor: Eric Whitacre. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Decca (UMO).

  • Frederick Delius

    2 Pieces for Small Orchestra: No. 1, On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Max Bruch

    Kol Nidrei, Op. 47

    Performer: Jan Vogler. Ensemble: Dresdner Kapellsolisten. Conductor: Helmut Branny.
    • Sony Classical.

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