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Serene classical music for peace and positivity

Drift off into a state of peacefulness and positivity with three hours of calming classical music.

Tune in and drift off into a state of peacefulness and positivity with this three hour mix of calming classical music. Featuring light orchestral melodies from Quincy Jones and Frederick Delius, relaxing piano lines from Clara Schumann and John Field, alongside well-known favourites from Edgar Bainton and Léo Delibes.

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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Serse, HWV 40, Act 1, Scene 1: Arioso. "Ombra mai fù"

    Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Sir Neville Marriner Conducts Handel.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 23.

  • Frederick Delius

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

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

  • Betty Jackson King

    Psalm 57

    Ensemble: BBC Singers.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Oboe Quartet in F Major, K. 370: II. Adagio

    Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Performer: Boris Brovtsyn. Performer: Kristina Blaumane. Performer: Maxim Rysanov.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Symphony in A Minor, Op. 8: II. Lament. Larghetto affettuoso

    Conductor: Douglas Bostock. Orchestra: Aarhus Symfoniorkester.
    • Musical Concepts.

  • Franz Liszt

    Consolations, S. 172: No. 1 in E Major. Andante con moto

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Consolations, S. 172/No. 1 in E Major. Andante con moto.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33: Moderato assai quasi Andante - Thema

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • harmonia mundi.

  • Kerensa Briggs

    Psalm 121 'I will lift up mine eyes'

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, London. Conductor: Joseph Fort.
    • Kerensa Briggs: Requiem.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 14.

  • Amy Beach

    Piano Concerto in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 45: III. Largo

    Performer: Danny Driver. Conductor: Rebecca Miller. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Beach, Chaminade & Howell: Piano Concertos (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 70).
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

  • Luise Adolpha Le Beau

    Cello Sonata in D Major, Op. 17: II. Andante Tranquillo

    Performer: Plínio Fernandes.
    • Le Beau: Cello Sonata in D Major, Op. 17: II. Andante Tranquillo (Arr. Assad for.
    • Decca Records US.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, "Death and the Maiden": II. Andante con moto

    Ensemble: Vermeer Quartet.
    • Vermeer Quartet - Death and the Maiden: Schubert, Beethoven, Dvořák, Mendelssohn.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 54.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    Threefold Amen

    Conductor: Paul McCreesh. Ensemble: Giovanni Gabrieli.
    • An English Coronation, 1902-1953.
    • Signum Records.
    • 44.

  • Quincy Jones

    The First Letter (From "The Color Purple")

    Composer: J. Lubbock. Composer: Rod Temperton. Composer: Jorge Calandrelli. Performer: Quincy Jones. Conductor: Dick Hazard.
    • The Color Purple.
    • Qwest Records IGA.
    • 1.

  • Sophie Hutchings

    Billow Gently

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer. Performer: Sophie Hutchings.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.

  • Cipriani Potter

    Symphony in C Minor: II. Andante con moto

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • O.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prélude

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma.
    • Cello Suiten No. 1,5 & 6.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Lauri Porra

    Utu

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

  • William Byrd

    Ave Verum Corpus

    Choir: New York Polyphony.
    • Tudor City.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 1.

  • Rosey Chan

    Adagio for Planet Earth

    Performer: Rosey Chan. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Rosey Chan.

  • Fiona Brice, Jim Perkins & Tony Woollard

    As The Night Draws In

    • Bigo and Twigetti.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuto

    Performer: Dong-Hyek Lim. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.
    • Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Symphonic Dances.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

  • Luke Howard

    Dappled Light

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • TIME.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 2.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    The Arts and the Hours

    Orchestra: Czech National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michaela Rózsa Růžičková.
    • Etymology Classics.

  • Charles Gounod

    Ave Maria, CG89a (from Bach Prelude in C, BWV 846)

    Singer: Benjamin Hulett. Performer: Helen Tunstall. Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Conductor: Edward Higginbottom.
    • Choral Adagios.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.

  • Joby Talbot

    Ink Dark Moon - II. Adagio contemplativo

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Conductor: Ben Gernon. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.
    • The Moon & The Forest.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • Amy Beach

    3 Compositions for Violin and Piano, No. 2, Berceuse

    Performer: Alessandro Clerici. Performer: Elena Brunello.
    • Halidon.

  • Florence Price

    Piano Quintet in A Minor: II. Andante con moto

    Performer: Marc-André Hamelin. Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Hyperion.

  • Léo Delibes

    Coppélia, Act I: Valse

    Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia. Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • French Ballet Favourites.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Leroy Anderson

    Irish Suite: V. The Last Rose of Summer

    Conductor: Leonard Slatkin. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.
    • Anderson, L.: Orchestral Music, Vol. 4 - Irish Suite / Scottish Suite / Alma Mat.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Son of Mary

    Choir: London Voices.
    • Oxford University Press Music.

  • Nancy Dalberg

    String Quartet No. 1 in D Minor: III. Adagio

    Performer: Heiðrun Petersen. Performer: Mads Haugsted Hansen. Performer: Daniel Eklund. Performer: Lea Emilie Brøndal. Ensemble: Nordic String Quartet.
    • Dalberg: The String Quartets.
    • Dacapo.
    • 3.

  • Daniel Bacheler

    Mounsieurs Almanie

    Performer: Paul O’Dette.
    • harmonia mundi.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Lieder ohne Worte I: VI. Andante sostenuto "Venetian Gondola Song"

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Ensemble: Schumann Quartett. Conductor: Gunars Upatnieks.
    • Blue Hour: Mendelssohn Edition.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Clara Schumann

    4 Pieces caracteristiques, Op. 5 - No. 3, Romance

    Performer: Sophia Vaillant.
    • Indesens Calliope Records.

  • PICCIONI GIAN PIERO

    Amore mio aiutami

    Performer: Piero Piccioni.
    • Bacci Bros Records.

  • John Field

    Nocturne No. 16 in C Major, H.60

    Performer: Elizabeth Joy Roe.
    • Field: Complete Nocturnes.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 16.

  • Edgar Bainton

    And I saw a new heaven

    Choir: Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford. Performer: Rebecca Baker. Conductor: Owen Rees.
    • A New Heaven.
    • Signum Records.
    • 4.

Broadcasts

  • Fri 14 Mar 2025 14:00
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  • Tue 25 Mar 2025 06:00
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  • Mon 12 May 2025 14:00
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  • Wednesday 06:00
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