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Escape into a world of relaxing classical music

Enjoy the calming sounds of classical music to a bring a sense of tranquillity, and reflection into to your day. Featuring peaceful orchestral, piano, and choral works.

Enjoy the calming sounds of classical music, to bring a sense of tranquillity and reflection into your day. Featuring soothing solo piano from Hayato Sumino, Germaine Tailleferre, and Robert Nathaniel Dett. Plus glowing choral harmonies from Ivo Antognini, Imogen Holst, and Rebecca Dale. And orchestral works from Frederick Delius, Rachel Portman, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

This mix is ideal for unwinding after a busy day, or simply finding peace in the small moments.

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An Overcoat Media Production for BBC Radio 3 Unwind, MM

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Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Triple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56: II. Largo

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
    • Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56: II. Largo (Single Version).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Rachel Portman

    Tipping Points: V. Earth

    Performer: Niklas Liepe. Orchestra: WDR Funkhausorchester. Conductor: Erina Yashima.
    • Rachel Portman: Tipping Points.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 10.

  • Olivia Belli

    Sibyl

    Performer: Olivia Belli. Performer: Louisa Fuller. Performer: John Metcalfe. Performer: Chris Worsey.
    • Intermundia.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 14.

  • Hayato Sumino

    Nocturne I - Pre Rain

    Performer: Hayato Sumino.
    • Human Universe.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 5.

  • Trad.

    Carrickfergus

    Performer: Sibéal Ní Chasaide. Music Arranger: Joshua Pacey. Lyricist: Trad.. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Enchanted Isle.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.

  • Alexis Ffrench

    Chasing Yesterdays

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench.
    • Classical Soul Vol. 1.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 4.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    The Swan (Le Cygne)

    Performer: Han‐na Chang. Music Arranger: Chris Hazell. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Summer In The Park.
    • Angel Records.
    • 8.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Valse Lente

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Saint-Saëns.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 30.

  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets, Op.32 II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace

    Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.
    • Classic FM.

  • Claude Debussy

    Beau soir

    Performer: Sophie Dervaux. Performer: Sélim Mazari.
    • EDEL Music & Entertainment GmbH.

  • William Grant Still

    Lyric Quartette: I. The Sentimental One

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered, Vol. 3: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, William Grant Still & George Walk.
    • Azica Records.
    • 04.

  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

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

    Conductor: Daniel Hege. Orchestra: Encore Chamber Orchestra.
    • Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries.
    • Cedille.
    • 2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ave verum corpus

    Performer: Andrew Fletcher. Choir: Ex Cathedra. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Ex Cathedra.

  • Clara Schumann

    4 Pièces fugitives, Op. 15: No. 3, Andante espressivo

    Performer: Junghwa Lee.
    • Centaur Records, Inc..

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Apollon Musagète, K. 048: VIII. Pas de Deux

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Stravinsky: Violin Concerto, Scherzo a la russe, Apollon musagete & Orchestral S.
    • Chandos Records Ltd..
    • 21.

  • Frederick Delius

    On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • 40 Most Beautiful Chillout Classics.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 1.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Cinnamon Grove: II. Adagio cantabile

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • Navona.

  • Trad.

    Londonderry Air 'Farewell to Cucullain'

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler.
    • Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Op. 56.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.

  • Ivo Antognini

    Those Tender Words

    Lyricist: Rumi. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Ivo Antognini: Come to Me in the Silence of the Night - Choral Works.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne No. 21 in C Minor, Op. Posth.

    Performer: Fazil Say.
    • Evening.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.

  • Florence Price

    An Elf on a Moonbeam

    Performer: Anna Lapwood.
    • Luna.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13.

  • Hubert Parry

    Music, when soft voices die

    Choir: The Choir of Christ's College, Cambridge. Conductor: David Rowland.
    • Regent.

  • Michael Nyman

    The Diary of Anne Frank: If

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Music Arranger: John Harle. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Jessica Cottis.
    • Rise.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170: I. Aria

    Performer: Andreas Scholl. Lyricist: Georg Christian Lehms. Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Bach: Cantatas for Alto Solo.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.

  • Imogen Holst

    Lullaby (from Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow)

    Performer: Elizabeth Bass. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.

  • George Butterworth

    Two English Idylls - No. 1

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Grant Llewellyn.
    • Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow; A Shropshire Lad/ /McGunn: The Land of t.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet In A, K.581: 2. Larghetto

    Performer: Eduard Brunner. Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Mozart / Weber: Clarinet Quintets.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.

  • Rebecca Dale

    Materna Requiem: 10. In Paradisum: If I Should Go

    Lyricist: Joyce Grenfell. Choir: Kantos Chamber Choir. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Dale: Requiem For My Mother.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 10.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard Sonata in F Minor, Kk. 466 (Upright Version)

    Performer: Julius Asal.
    • SCRIABIN – SCARLATTI (Extended Version).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Clarinet Quintet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 10: II. Larghetto affettuoso

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered, Vol. 1: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Azica Records.
    • 11.

  • Philip Glass

    Truman Sleeps

    Performer: Alexandra Whittingham. Music Arranger: Gerard Cousins.
    • Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Book 1, Op. 12: No. 1, Arietta (Arr. Lewin for Guitar).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • Cerys Hafana

    Bridoll

    Performer: Cerys Hafana.
    • Edyf.
    • Cerys Havana Hickman.
    • 06.

  • Christopher Harris

    Bring me all your dreams

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61: VII. Nocturne

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Music Arranger: Moritz Moszkowski.
    • Mendelssohn.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.

  • Edward Elgar

    Enigma Variations, Op. 36 - Var. 9. Adagio "Nimrod"

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Elgar: Enigma Variations.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 10.

  • James Hetfield

    Nothing Else Matters

    Composer: Lars Ulrich. Performer: Emma Denton. Performer: John Parricelli. Lyricist: James Hetfield. Lyricist: Lars Ulrich. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Nothing Else Matters.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Seckou Keita

    Gobaith

    Composer: Catrin Finch. Performer: Catrin Finch. Performer: Seckou Keita.
    • ARC Music Productions International Ltd.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    3 Nocturnes, Op. 33: III. Nocturne in A-Flat Major

    Performer: Lucas Debargue.
    • III. Nocturne in A-Flat Major.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106 "Actus tragicus": No. 2

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Performer: David Fray. Music Arranger: György Kurtág.
    • Four Hands.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 10 Feb 2025 14:00
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