Settle into the day with flowing classical harmonies
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 uplifting and enriching melodies from Leo Delibes, Margaret Bonds, and Benjamin Britten. Sian ponders on the positives of an unexpected diversion while out to Take a Breath, there's a chance to Find Your Focus with the music of Marie Awadis, and Professor Catherine Loveday explores how music stimulates the brain's "printing press for our memories" - the hippocampus.
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Music Played
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Suite No 4 in G, 'Mozartiana' (Preghiera)
Conductor: Neeme JĂ€rvi. Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra.- Chandos.
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JeanâPhilippe Rameau
L'enharmonique
Performer: VĂkingur Ălafsson.- DG.
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Camille SaintâSaĂ«ns
Musette guerriere (Etienne Marcel)
Conductor: Jun MĂ€rkl. Orchestra: Residentie Orkest.- Naxos.
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Sir Stephen Hough
Musical Jewellery Box
Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.- Hyperion.
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Frederick Delius
Summer Night on the River
Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.- Warner.
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Marie Awadis
Etude No 5 (Traces)
Performer: Marie Awadis.- DG.
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Imogen Holst
Agnus Dei
Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.- Signum.
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Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen
Once a Shoemaker
Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.- ECM.
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Leo Brouwer
An Idea
Performer: ZsĂłfia Boros.- ECM.
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Gang Chen
Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto (3rd mvt)
Performer: Chloe Chua. Conductor: Mario Venzago. Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra.- Pentatone.
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Friedrich Gernsheim
Piano Concerto in C minor, Op 16 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Oliver Treindl. Conductor: Hermann BĂ€umer. Orchestra: Mainz Philharmonic State Orchestra.- CPO.
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Agnes Tyrrell
8 Choruses, Op 7 (Abschied)
Choir: Gewandhauschor Leipzig. Conductor: Gregor Meyer.- CPO.
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John Foulds
Strophes from an Antique Song
Conductor: Ronald Corp. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.- Vocalion.
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Undine Smith Moore
Is there anybody here who loves my Jesus
Performer: Chloe Flower.- Popsical.
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Louis Spohr
Symphony No 5 in C minor, Op102 (2nd mvt)
Conductor: Howard Griffiths. Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony, Hannover.- CPO.
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Frédéric Chopin
Mazurka No 31 in A flat major, Op 50 No 2
Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.- Hyperion.
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Felix Weingartner
Serenade for Strings in F major, Op 6 (3rd mvt)
Conductor: Marko Letonja. Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra Basel.- CPO.
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Max Bruch
Violin Concerto No 3 in D minor, Op 58 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Jack Liebeck. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.- Hyperion.
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Benjamin Britten
Diversions, Op 21 (Variation VI, 'Nocturne')
Performer: Clare Hammond. Conductor: George Vass. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.- BIS.
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Paul LeonardâMorgan
Aftermath (A History of Scotland)
Conductor: Paul LeonardâMorgan. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.- Rage Music.
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Dora Bright
Variations for Piano and Orchestra (Var 3)
Performer: Samantha Ward. Conductor: Charles Peebles. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.- SOMM.
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Rosalind Ellicott
Second Trio (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: The Summerhayes Piano Trio.- Meridian.
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Einojuhani Rautavaara
Vigilia
Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Timothy Brown.- Collegium.
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John Ireland
The Holy Boy
Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London.- Chandos.
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Helene Liebmann
Cello Sonata in B flat major, Op 11 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Ramon Jaffé. Performer: Monica Gutman.- CPO.
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Margaret Bonds
Montgomery Variations (No 6, 'Lament')
Conductor: Kellen Gray. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.- Outhere.
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Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin
Piano Sonata No 6, Op 62 (2nd mvt)
Performer: MarcâAndrĂ© Hamelin.- Hyperion.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Othello, Op 79 (2nd mvt, 'Children's Intermezzo')
Conductor: Adrian Leaper. Orchestra: RTĂ Concert Orchestra.- Naxos.
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Alberto Ginastera
3 Pieces, Op 6 (1st mvt, 'Cuyana')
Performer: François-Xavier Poizat.- Piano Classics.
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George Frideric Handel
Organ Concerto in F major, HWV293 (1st mvt)
Performer: Xavier de Maistre. Orchestra: Lucerne Festival Strings.- Sony.
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Felix Mendelssohn
String Symphony No 11 in F minor (3rd mvt)
Conductor: Jörg Faerber. Orchestra: WĂŒrttembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn.- VOX.
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Arthur Sullivan
Symphony in E major 'Irish' (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- Chandos.
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Jung Jae-il
Remember
Conductor: Eun Hye Jung. Orchestra: Budapest Scoring Orchestra.- Jung Jaeil.
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Léo Delibes
Sylvia (Pizzicato)
Conductor: Michael HalĂĄsz. Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra.- Naxos.
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Kate Loder
3 Romances (No 2 in A flat major)
Performer: Ian Hobson.- Toccata.
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Robert Schumann
Marchenbilder for Viola and Piano, Op 113 (4th mvt)
Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Dasol Kim.- Maxim Rysanov.
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AgustĂn Barrios MangorĂ©
Julia Florida
Performer: Sean Shibe.- Pentatone.
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Ruth Gipps
Symphony No 5, Op 64 (IVe, 'Missa brevia - Agnus Dei')
Conductor: Rumon Gamba. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.- Chandos.
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Christopher Tin
I shall not see the shadows
Choir: VOCES8.- Decca.
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John Barry
Child's Play from My Life (OST)
- Epic Soundtrax.
Broadcasts
- Today09:00BBC Radio 3 Unwind
- Sun 19 Apr 202609:00BBC Radio 3 Unwind

