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Mindful classical music to refresh your focus

Relax and reset your mind with three hours of soothing classical music.

Relax and reset your mind with three hours of soothing classical music paired with transportive soundscapes from the natural world.

This mix includes symphonic works by Joseph Haydn and Ralph Vaughan Williams, choral excellence by Adolphus Hailstork and Cecilia McDowall, and comforting piano pieces by Hideyuki Hashimoto and Erik Satie.

Produced by Katie Hill
An Overcoat Media Production for BBC Radio 3 Unwind. MM.

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Music Played

  • Alessandro Marcello

    Oboe Concerto in D Minor S.Z799: 2. Adagio

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Balcombe.
    • Rise.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 29 in E Major, Hob. I:29: II. Andante

    Conductor: Giovanni Antonini. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel.
    • Haydn 2032, Vol. 18: Il maestro di scuola.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 6.

  • Ludovico Einaudi

    Air

    Performer: Ludovico Einaudi. Performer: Gautier Capuçon.
    • Einaudi: Air.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Cecilia McDowall

    Standing as I do before God

    Performer: Emma Walshe. Ensemble: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Standing as I do before God.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Oboe Quartet in F Major, K. 370: II. Adagio

    Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Performer: Boris Brovtsyn. Performer: Kristina Blaumane. Performer: Maxim Rysanov.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Peace on Earth

    Performer: Christopher Williams.
    • Naxos.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 8 No. 7, RV 242: II. Largo

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Conductor: Adrian Chandler.
    • Vivaldi Opus 8+ Vol. 2.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 2.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Sun Triptych: I. Dawn

    Performer: Roman Mints. Performer: Kristina Blaumane. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Dobrinka Tabakova.
    • Tabakova: Sun Triptych.
    • ECM New Series.

  • CĂ©cile Chaminade

    Automne, Op. 35 No. 2, Grande Etude de Concert

    Performer: Marie Sophie Hauzel.
    • Chaminade: Automne, Op. 35 No. 2, Grande Etude de Concert.
    • Prospero Classical.
    • 1.

  • Robert Schumann

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

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

  • Adolphus Hailstork

    God be merciful

    Conductor: Adolphus Hailstork. Choir: London Voices.
    • Oxford University Press Music.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Serse, HWV 40, Act 1, Scene 1: Arioso. "Ombra mai fĂč"

    Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Sir Neville Marriner Conducts Handel.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 23.

  • Rita Strohl

    Solitude (Arr. for Violin and Piano)

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Performer: Kim Barbier. Music Arranger: Esther Abrami.
    • Solitude (Arr. for Violin and Piano by Esther Abrami).
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.

  • George Fenton

    Antarctic Mystery

    Conductor: George Fenton. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.
    • Frozen Planet (Soundtrack from the TV Series).
    • Silva Screen Records Ltd.
    • 5.

  • Claude Debussy

    Préludes, Book 1, CD 125: VI. Des pas sur la neige

    Performer: Alis Huws.
    • Cosy Nights by the Fire.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 2.

  • Max Richter

    On the Nature of Daylight

    Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Performer: Anna Lapwood.
    • Luna.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 12.

  • Judith Weir

    Still, Glowing

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
    • Dalia's Mixtape.
    • Platoon.
    • 3.

  • FrĂ©dĂ©ric Chopin

    24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 15 in D-Flat Major "Raindrop Prelude"

    Performer: Mikhail Pletnev.
    • Chopin & Scriabin: 24 Preludes.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    Sussex Landscape: II. Lento e molto tranquillo

    Conductor: John Andrews. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Concerto & Orchestral Works.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 6.

  • Hideyuki Hashimoto

    Journey

    Performer: Hideyuki Hashimoto.
    • Time.
    • XXIM Records.
    • 8.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No 5 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 9.
    • LSO Live.
    • 3.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Lieder ohne Worte I, Op. 19b: VI. Andante sostenuto "Venetian Gondola Song"

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Ensemble: Schumann Quartett. Conductor: Gunars Upatnieks.
    • Blue Hour: Mendelssohn Edition.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • NiccolĂČ Paganini

    Cantabile in D Major, Op. 17, MS 109

    Performer: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow. Performer: Jacques Rouvier.
    • Arion.

  • Hubert Parry

    Songs of Farewell: I. My Soul, there is a Country

    Composer: Henry Vaughan. Conductor: Harry Christophers. Ensemble: The Sixteen.
    • An Old Belief.
    • CORO.
    • 10.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E-Flat Major: I. Adagio ma non troppo

    Ensemble: Quatuor Ébùne.
    • Mendelssohn Felix and Fanny.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.

  • Edward Elgar

    Salut d'amour, Op. 12

    Performer: Nicolas Dautricourt. Conductor: Frédéric Chaslin. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
    • Elgar: Violin Concerto & Salut d'amour - Delius: Suite.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 4.

  • Cait Nishimura

    Hiraeth

    Performer: Christopher Williams. Performer: David Childs.
    • Naxos.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: I. Morning Mood (Arr. for Harp)

    Performer: Alis Huws.
    • Quiet Sunlit Mornings.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Piano Trio in C Minor: III. Adagio

    Ensemble: Trio Karénine.
    • Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio Op. 50.
    • Mirare.
    • 1.

  • William Byrd

    Peccantem me quotidie a 5, T. 6 (Cantiones Sacrae, 1575)

    Lyricist: Anon.. Conductor: Owain Park. Choir: The Gesualdo Six.
    • Lux aeterna: A Sequence for the Souls of the Departed.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

  • Dorothy Howell

    Divertissements: II. Three Divertissements

    Conductor: Rebecca Miller. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.
    • Dorothy Howell: Orchestral Works.
    • Signum Records.
    • 4.

  • Erik Satie

    3 Gymnopedies: No. 3, Lent et grave

    Performer: Alessandro Simonetto.
    • OnClassical.

  • Michael Praetorius

    Det Àr en ros utsprungen (Arr. Sandström for Vocal Ensemble)

    Lyricist: Anon.. Ensemble: VOCES8. Ensemble: Ringmasters.
    • Praetorius: Det Ă€r en ros utsprungen (Arr. Sandström for Vocal Ensemble).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Suite for Violin and Piano, Op. 3: II. Cavatina

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Zhu Wang.
    • Roots (Deluxe Edition).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 20.

  • John Rutter

    Elegy

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • Reflections.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 11.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106, Actus tragicus: I. Sonatina

    Conductor: Sébastien Daucé. Ensemble: Ensemble Correspondances.
    • J.S. Bach: Christ lag in Todesbanden. Cantatas BWV 4, 106, 131.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.

  • Gabriel FaurĂ©

    Cantique de Jean Racine

    Choir: Accentus. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Faure Requiem.
    • naĂŻve.
    • 09.

Broadcast

  • Fri 16 Jan 202614:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind

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