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A classical journey into stillness

Allow this classical mix to accompany your journey into stillness.

Allow this three hour classical mix to accompany your journey into deep stillness. Featuring orchestral favourites from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and George Freidrich Handel, alongside calming piano from Amy Beach and H. Leslie Adams and choral arrangements from Douglas Guest and Benjamin Britten.

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

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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Serse, HWV 40, Act I: Largo. "Ombra mai fu" (arr. for String Orchestra)

    Conductor: Béla Bánfalvi. Orchestra: Budapest Strings.
    • Handel at Christmas.
    • Menuetto Classics.
    • 4.

  • Frederick Delius

    Orchestral Suite No. 1, RT VI/6: II. Berceuse

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: John Andrews.
    • La belle dame.
    • EMF Endeavours.
    • 3.

  • George Lloyd

    Piano Concerto No. 4: II. Larghetto

    Performer: Kathryn Stott. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: George Lloyd.
    • Lloyd: The Piano Concertos.
    • Wyastone Estate Ltd t/a Nimbus Records.
    • 14.

  • Ludovico Einaudi

    Experience (Arr. for Ensemble)

    Performer: Lara Somogyi. Performer: Thomas Gould. Performer: Emma Denton. Performer: Elsa Bradley. Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson. Choir: VOCES8.
    • Nightfall.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.

  • Federico Mompou

    Suite Compostelana: II. Coral

    Performer: Julyo.
    • Julyo plays Federico Mompou.
    • Hit Songs Group.
    • 2.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25: II. Andante

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Conductor: Jonathan Bloxham. Orchestra: London Mozart Players.
    • Mendelssohn.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 2.

  • Franz Schubert

    Ave Maria

    Music Arranger: Arthur Harris. Conductor: Isaac Stern. Orchestra: Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Milton Katims. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic.
    • Greatest Hits: Schubert.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • Jung Jae-il

    Psalm 22.21

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Nightfall.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • H. Leslie Adams

    Contrasts: II. Lament

    Performer: Rochelle Sennet.
    • Bach to Black: Suites for Piano.
    • Albany Records.
    • 36.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in E flat, HIII, No. 1 - 3. Affettuoso e sostenuto

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Haydn: Sonnen-Quartette op.20.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 3.

  • Ennio Morricone

    Love Theme

    Performer: Rosey Chan.
    • Rosey Chan.

  • Judith Weir

    Still, Glowing

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
    • Platoon.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299: II. Andantino

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Anneleen Lenaerts. Conductor: François Leleux. Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris.
    • Mozart & Flute in Paris - Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299: II. Andantino.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Arabesque

    Performer: Maria Du Toit. Performer: Vera Kooper.
    • She/Her: Music for Clarinet and Piano by 12 Female Composers.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 10.

  • Kerensa Briggs

    Media Vita

    Choir: Siglo de Oro. Conductor: Patrick Allies.
    • Media Vita.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 1.

  • Richard Addinsell

    Tune in G

    Performer: Roderick Elms. Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.
    • Addinsell: Goodbye Mr. Chips / A Tale of Two Cities.
    • Marco-Polo.
    • 6.

  • Claude Debussy

    2 Arabesques, L. 66: I. Andantino con moto

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • Debussy: Suite bergamasque; Estampes; 2 Arabesques.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 2.

  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Violin Concerto No. 2 in A Major, Op. 5: II. Largo

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Ensemble: Mutter’s Virtuosi.
    • Bach, Bologne, Previn, Vivaldi, Williams.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 15.

  • Julia Wolfe

    Anthracite Fields (IV. Flowers)

    Lyricist: Anon.. Conductor: Julian Wachner. Ensemble: Bang on a Can All-Stars. Choir: Choir of Trinity Wall Street.
    • Cantaloupe Music.

  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    Who knows?

    Performer: Alexandra Mackenzie. Performer: Ingrid Sawers.
    • Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Who knows?.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 1.

  • Claude Debussy

    Rêverie, CD 76 (Arr. for Cello and Orchestra)

    Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber. Music Arranger: David Cullen. Conductor: James Judd. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Cello Moods.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.

  • Hubert Parry

    Symphony No. 1 in G Major: Andante

    Conductor: Matthias Bamert. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.

  • Roderick Elms

    Cantilena for Guitar and Orchestra

    Performer: Carlos Bonell. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.
    • Roderick Elms: Visions of St Anne and Other Orchestral Works.
    • Signum Records.
    • 5.

  • Benjamin Britten

    A Hymn to the Virgin

    Conductor: Harry Christophers. Ensemble: The Sixteen.
    • The Britten Collection.
    • CORO.
    • 1.

  • José White Lafitte

    Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: II. Adagio ma non troppo

    Conductor: Paul Freeman. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Black Composer Series, Vol. 6: José White & David Baker (Remastered).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • Alexandra Stréliski

    Ad Libre

    Performer: Alexandra Stréliski.
    • Néo-Romance (Extended Version).
    • XXIM Records.
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61: II. Larghetto

    Performer: Charlie Siem. Conductor: Oleg Caetani. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61: II. Larghetto.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • Koji Kondo

    Zelda's Lullaby (Arr. for Vocal Ensemble & Harp)

    Performer: Lise Vandersmissen. Music Arranger: Jim Clements. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Zelda's Lullaby (Arr. Clements for Vocal Ensemble & Harp).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • William Grant Still

    Song for the Lonely

    Performer: Mark Ensley. Performer: Lecolion Washington.
    • Legacy.
    • Albany Records.
    • 2.

  • Douglas Guest

    For the Fallen

    Conductor: Mark Williams. Ensemble: The Choir of Jesus College Cambridge.
    • War & Peace.
    • Signum Records.
    • 14.

  • Amy Beach

    Dreaming Op.15 No. 3

    Performer: Eline Marlene.
    • Beach: Dreaming.
    • Télès Music.
    • 1.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Variations on a rococo theme, Op 33 (Variation 3)

    Performer: Edgar Moreau. Orchestra: Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Michael Sanderling.
    • Shostakovich: Jazz Suite No. 2, Op. 50b: Waltz.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Gustav Holst

    7 Choruses from the Alcestis of Euripides, H. 146: No. 4, Ah Me! Farewell

    Lyricist: Euripides. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Ensemble: St Paul's Girls School - Paulina Voices. Conductor: Leigh O'Hara.
    • EMF Endeavours.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, No. 2 'Moonlight': I. Adagio sostenuto

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 9.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Sinfonietta, FP 141: III. Andante cantabile

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Bramwell Tovey.
    • Chandos Records Limited.

  • Arvo Pärt

    Für Alina

    Performer: Alexander Malter.
    • Arvo Pärt: Alina.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 2.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Requiem, Op. 48: V. In Paradisum

    Conductor: Thibaut Lenaerts. Orchestra: Millenium Orchestra. Choir: Chœur de Chambre de Namur.
    • Fauré: Requiem (1888).
    • Ricercar.
    • 5.

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