Bring peace to your morning with calming 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 Gershwin, Laura Marling, and Mozart, and your daily chance to Find your Focus for the morning with the music of harpist Catrin Finch. Sian Takes a Breath by the seaside and spies a new adventure waiting to be embraced, and Professor Catherine Loveday explores how dancing with others to music can help us deepen the connections to those around us.
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Michele Mangani
Dancing Doll
Performer: Seunghee Lee. Conductor: Steven Beck. Ensemble: Manhattan Chamber Players.- Musica Solis.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Laudate Dominum, arr for upright piano (Vespers, K 339: 5th mvt)
Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson. Music Arranger: Víkingur Ólafsson.- DG.
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Constant Lambert
Anna Karenina Suite (2nd mvt, 'Anna & Vronsky's First Meeting')
Conductor: Rumon Gamba. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.- Chandos.
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Leokadiya Kashperova
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 2 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Oliver Triendl. Conductor: Anna Skryleva. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.- Capriccio.
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Laura Marling
What He Wrote
Performer: Rosie Bennet.- Sony.
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Meredi
White Flowers Take Their Bath
Performer: Mari Samuelsen. Conductor: Jonathan Stockhammer. Orchestra: Scoring Berlin.- DG.
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Catrin Finch
Wings
Performer: Catrin Finch. Performer: Aoife Ní Bhriain.- bendigedig.
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George Gershwin
Chinese Blues (arr for vibraphone & string quartet)
Performer: Vassilena Serafimova. Music Arranger: Hristo Yotsov. Ensemble: Quatuor Ardeo.- La Dolce Volta.
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Henry Purcell
Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts Zc.
Choir: The Gesualdo Six. Conductor: Owain Park.- Hyperion.
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Hugo Alfvén
Gustav Il Adolf, Op 49 (IVa, 'Sarabanda for string orchestra')
Conductor: Neeme Järvi. Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.- Chandos.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Pastorella Larga (after Chamber Concerto in D major, RV 95,'La Pastorella': 2nd mvt)
Conductor: Wolfgang Katschner. Orchestra: Lautten Compagney.- Deutsche HM.
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Rachel Portman
Dolomites, pale mountains (3rd mvt, 'Rosengarten')
Performer: Alexander Gilman. Ensemble: LGT Young Soloists. Conductor: Rachel Portman.- Sony.
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Johannes Brahms
Sonata in D minor, Op 108 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Marie-Claude Bantigny. Performer: Κάρολος Ζουγανέλης. Music Arranger: Marie-Claude Bantigny.- Paraty.
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Eric Coates
Summer Days (1st mvt, 'In a Country Lane')
Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.- Chandos.
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Joseph Bologne
6 Quartetto concertans (No 2 in G minor: 2nd mvt, Aria andantino)
Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet.- Naxos.
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Edward Elgar
Soliloquy for Oboe & Orchestra
Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Conductor: Jakub Hrůša. Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.- DG.
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Koji Kondo
Kakariko Village (The Legends of Zelda)
Performer: Kaori Muraji. Music Arranger: Yoshihiro Koseki.- Decca.
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Frédéric Chopin
Mazurkas, Op 63, No 3 (arr for violin & piano)
Performer: Andrea Cicalese. Performer: Martin Stadtfeld. Music Arranger: Martin Stadtfeld.- Sony.
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Ñico Rojas
En el abra del Yumuri [In Yumuri Bay]
Performer: Marco Tamayo.- Naxos.
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Yu‐Peng Chen
Farewell, My Friend!
Performer: Yu‐Peng Chen. Performer: Kristina Blaumane. Performer: Zhao Liu. Singer: Zirong Zhu. Conductor: Robert Ziegler. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.- DG.
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Wilhelm Stenhammar
Three Choral Songs (No 2, 'In the Seraglio's Garden')
Choir: Swedish Chamber Choir. Conductor: Simon Phipps.- Chandos.
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Margaret Bonds
Montgomery Variations (No 7, 'Benediction')
Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin. Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra.- DG.
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Shigeru Umebayashi
Yumeji's Theme (In the Mood for Love)
Performer: Marc Andre. Performer: Veronique Teruel.- Warner.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 5 in C minor, Op 67 (2nd mvt)
Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.- DG.
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Eugene Zádor
Berceuse (arr for violin & string orchestra)
Performer: David Pinter. Conductor: Mariusz Smolij. Orchestra: MÁV Szimfonikus zenekar.- Naxos.
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Vicente Lusitano
Aspice Domine
Choir: The Marian Consort.- LINN.
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Johann Stamitz
Sinfonia in B flat major, WoldS I Bb-4 (2nd mvt)
Conductor: Timo Handschuh. Orchestra: South-West German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim.- CPO.
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Gabriel Fauré
Barcarolle No 12, Op 106 bis
Performer: Louis Lortie.- Chandos.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
3 Preludes Founded on Welsh Hymns (3rd mvt, 'Rhosymedre')
Choir: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas.- Delphian.
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Julie Cooper
Contemplation Suite (4th mvt, 'Dream')
Performer: Clio Gould. Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Camilla Pay. Singer: Grace Davidson. Ensemble: Oculus Ensemble.- Signum.
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Sarah Class
Up in the Clouds (BBC Earth's Africa OTS)
Conductor: Elizabeth Purnell. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.- Silva Screen Records Ltd.
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Sergei Bortkiewicz
Symphony No 1 in D major, Op 52 (2nd mvt, Scherzo)
Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.- Hyperion.
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Jean Sibelius
10 Pieces for Piano, Op 24 (No 9, Romance)
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.- Sony.
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Arvo Pärt
Ukuaru Waltz
Performer: Georgijs Osokins.- DG.
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Steve Hackman
So She Leapt, Unburdened, Into the Unknown
Performer: Lucia Micarelli. Orchestra: Steve Hackman and his Orchestra.- SOUNDFUSE MUSIC.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 56, 'Scottish' (3rd mvt)
Conductor: Lahav Shani. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.- Warner.
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John Tavener
Song for Athene
Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Conductor: Edward Higginbottom.- UME - Global Clearing House.
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