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Refresh your morning with soothing melodies

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 beautiful and lyrical melodies from Ola Gjeilo, Florence Price, and Steve Reich, this episode explores how getting children to play music together promotes empathy. Plus, Sian takes a breath among some fields of crops.

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Music Played

  • Vladimir Martynov

    Come in! (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Tatiana Grindenko. Ensemble: Opus Posth.
    • Melodiya.

  • Clive Osgood

    3 Folksong Arrangements (No 1, 'The Crystal Spring')

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Convivium.

  • Claude Debussy

    Piano Trio in G major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Edgar Moreau. Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Erato.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Keyboard Sonata in D major, Hob XVI:37 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Mariam Batsashvili.
    • Warner.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    French Suite No 5 in G major, BWV 816 (3rd mvt, Sarabande)

    Performer: Mie Miki.
    • Naxos Japan.

  • Steve Reich

    Electric Counterpoint (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Mats Bergström.
    • Mats Bergstrom Musik.

  • Chen Yi

    Romance and Dance (Romance of Hsiao and Ch'in)

    Performer: Yi-Jia Susanne Hou. Performer: Cho-Liang Lin. Conductor: Lan Shui. Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra.
    • BIS.

  • William Byrd

    Turn our captivity, O Lord

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.

  • Havergal Brian

    English Suite No 5, 'Rustic Scenes' (2nd mvt, Reverie)

    Conductor: Garry Walker. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Toccata.

  • Philippe Gaubert

    Flute Sonata No 2 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Fenwick Smith. Performer: Sally Pinkas.
    • Naxos.

  • Frederick Delius

    Idylle de Printemps

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle Concerts Society.

  • Richard Mudge

    Concerto No 5 in B flat major (3rd mvt, 'A la sarabanda')

    Orchestra: Capriccio Barockorchester.
    • Tudor.

  • Franz Liszt

    3 Odes Funèbres (2nd mvt, 'La Notte')

    Conductor: Ilan Volkov. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Hyperion.

  • Florence Price

    Preludes (No 4, 'Wistful')

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Guild.

  • George Walker

    String Quartet No 1, 'Lyric' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Azica.

  • Joseph Bologne

    Symphonie Concertante in C major Op 9 No 1

    Conductor: Michael Halász. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra.
    • Naxos.

  • M. Camargo Guarnieri

    Canção Sertaneja (Song of the Farmlands)

    Performer: Diego Caetano.
    • DA VINCI CLASSICS.

  • Françoise Choveaux

    Piano Quintet No 2, Op 108 (3rd mvt, 'Lovingly')

    Ensemble: Rimsky-Korsakov String Quartet.
    • Northern Flowers.

  • Marsha de Thornley-Head

    Aria

    Conductor: Peter Fisher. Orchestra: Chamber Ensemble of London.
    • EM.

  • Georgs PelÄ“cis

    Concertino bianco (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska. Conductor: Johannes Fritzsch. Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
    • ABC.

  • John Thomas

    12 Studies for Harp (No 10)

    Performer: Paola Baron.
    • Azul.

  • Roger Quilter

    6 Songs, Op 25 No 2 (The Fuchsia Tree)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Erato.

  • Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

    Concerto Elegia for Solo Flute and Strings (2nd mvt, 'Soliloquy')

    Performer: Sarah Brady. Conductor: Gil Rose. Orchestra: Boston Modern Orchestra Project.
    • BMOP.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    Tundra

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Signum.

  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets (Neptune, the Mystic)

    Conductor: Jaime Martín. Orchestra: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
    • Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Symphony No 5, Op 64 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Rumon Gamba. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Elisabetta de Gambarini

    Sonata in G major, Op 1 No 4 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Margherita Torretta.
    • Piano Classics.

  • Claude Debussy

    Children Corner (3rd mvt, 'Serenade for the Doll')

    Music Arranger: André Caplet. Conductor: Jun Märkl. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon.
    • NAXOS.

  • Francisco Buencamino Sr

    Damdamin (Romance)

    Performer: Sally Pinkas.
    • MSR Classics.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Bandanna Sketches (Nobody knows the trouble I've seen)

    Performer: Adam Abeshouse. Performer: Lara Downes.
    • Flipside.

  • Trad.

    Ca the yowes

    Music Arranger: Adrian Peacock. Choir: Apollo5.
    • Voces 8 Records.

  • Barbara Harbach

    Arabesque Noir (2nd mvt, 'Evening Love')

    Conductor: David Angus. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • MSR Classics.

  • Joseph Gibbs

    Sonata No 1 in D minor (4th mvt)

    Performer: Rachel Harris. Performer: Tatty Theo. Performer: Carolyn Gibley. Ensemble: The Brook Street Band.
    • First Hand Records.

  • Edward Elgar

    5 Intermezzos (2nd mvt, 'Mrs and Miss Howell')

    Ensemble: Athena Ensemble.
    • Chandos.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Dalibor (Act II, Change of Stage 2: Orchestral)

    Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.
    • Onyx.

  • Georges Bizet

    L'Arlesienne Suite No 1 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Up North Session Orchestra.
    • Silent Star Music.

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