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Start your day with inspiring classical 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 a wealth of relaxing, recharging melodies from composers like Dvorak, Takemitsu, and Laura Snowden. Sian spies a crescent moon while out to take a breath and finds encouragement in it to look up more often. Also, Professor Catherine Loveday explores whether understanding music can help us learn other languages too, and there's music by Ludovico Einaudi to help us to find our morning focus.

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Organ Sonata Variation (after 'Organ Sonata No 4 in E minor, BWV 528: 2nd mvt')

    Performer: Eldbjorg Hemsing. Music Arranger: Tim Allhoff. Ensemble: Norwegian String Quintet.
    • Sony.

  • Mel Bonis

    Meditation in F major, Op 33

    Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Performer: Julian Riem.
    • Sony.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    Dreamweaver (5th mvt, 'Paradise')

    Singer: Grace Davidson. Choir: Choir of Royal Holloway. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ian Watson.
    • Decca.

  • Max Reger

    Serenade, Op 95 (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Neeme Järvi. Orchestra: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Emanuele Barbella

    Mandolin Concerto in D major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Avi Avital. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico.
    • DG.

  • Ludovico Einaudi

    Rolling Like a Ball

    Performer: Ludovico Einaudi.
    • Decca.

  • Laufey

    What Love Will Do to You

    Performer: Rosie Bennet.
    • Sony.

  • Anthony Collins

    Santa Cecilia (A Madrigal)

    Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.
    • Dutton.

  • Christopher Gunning

    Five Little Pigs

    Performer: Yuri Torchinsky. Conductor: Rumon Gamba. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Claude Nougaro

    Cécile ma fille

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Erato.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Suite for Viola & Orchestra, Group 3 (1st mvt, Musette)

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Conductor: Jamie Phillips. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
    • Claves.

  • Josef Myslivecek

    Symphony in A major (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Matthias Bamert. Orchestra: London Mozart Players.
    • Chandos.

  • Florence Price

    Elfentantz (arr for viola & piano)

    Ensemble: Carr-Petrova Duo.
    • EmpowHERS.

  • Harry Dexter

    Siciliano

    Conductor: Ronald Corp. Orchestra: New London Orchestra.
    • Hyperion.

  • Eunike Tanzil

    Remembering

    Performer: Eunike Tanzil. Conductor: Anna Handler. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin.
    • DG.

  • Claude Bolling

    Suite for Flute & Jazz Trio (Irlandaise)

    Performer: Jasmine Choi. Performer: Hugh Sung. Performer: Sam Minaie. Performer: Nathaniel Smith.
    • Sony.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Viola, K 498, 'Kegelstatt-trio'

    Performer: Nils Mönkemeyer. Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: William Youn.
    • Sony.

  • Eric Coates

    From Meadow to Mayfair Suite (2nd mvt, 'A Song by the Way - Romance')

    Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Teng Yu-Hsien

    Spring Wind

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • DG.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Rusalka, Op 114 (Act 1 : 'Song to the Moon')

    Performer: Pablo Ferrández. Performer: Martin Frost. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
    • Sony.

  • Rachel Portman

    The Little Prince (On My Planet)

    Performer: Niklas Liepe. Music Arranger: James Welland. Conductor: Erina Yashima. Orchestra: WDR Funkhausorchester.
    • Sony.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Valse Sentimentale

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Sony.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No 4 in C minor (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Kevin John Edusei. Orchestra: Münchner Symphoniker.
    • Solo Musica.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Exultate Deo

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Decca.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No 3 in E flat major, Op 97 'Rhenish' (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas. Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony.
    • SFS Media.

  • Dora Pejačević

    The Life of Flowers (No 7, Lilies)

    Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva.
    • Piano Classics.

  • Laura Snowden

    Picking up the Pieces

    Performer: Amy Green. Performer: Laura Snowden.
    • Bandcamp.

  • Xiaogang Ye

    Sichuan Image (No 27, 'Fogs of Suining')

    Conductor: José Serebrier. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • BIS.

  • John Field

    Nocturne in B flat major (version for harp)

    Performer: Magdalena Hoffmann.
    • DG.

  • Edward MacDowell

    Suite No 1 in A minor, Op 42 (2nd mvt, 'Sommer-Idylle')

    Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Toru Takemitsu

    Small Sky (version for mixed choir)

    Choir: SWR Vokalensemble. Conductor: Marcus Creed.
    • SWR Classic.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Rinaldo, HWV 7: Lascia ch'io pianga (arr for piano)

    Performer: Martin Stadtfeld.
    • Sony.

  • Carl Stamitz

    Sinfonia Concertante No 12 in B flat major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Hans‐Peter Hofmann. Performer: Paul Meyer. Conductor: Christoph Eberle. Orchestra: Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester.
    • CPO.

  • Florian Christl

    Budapest

    Performer: Florian Christl. Performer: Clara Busel. Performer: Leandro Hauxwell. Performer: Alona Khlevna. Performer: Gereon Theis. Performer: Benedikt Wagner.
    • Sony.

  • Matthew Martin

    Justorum animae

    Choir: Choir of Jesus College Cambridge. Director: Mark Williams.
    • Signum.

  • Christopher Tin

    Wild Swans

    Choir: VOCES8. Conductor: Barnaby Smith. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Decca.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No 8 in G minor, Op 88 (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • LSO Live.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Chorus of the Winds from 'The Tempest'

    Choir: Opera Festival Chorus. Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka‐Pekka Saraste.
    • Ondine.

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