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Lift your morning with revitilizing classical music

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 comforting and enriching melodies from Fanny Mendelssohn, Maurice Ravel, and JS Bach, this episode explores why listeners opinions of music changes when they think it has been composed by AI. Plus, Sian delights in a magnificent flowering magnolia.

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Music Played

  • Richard Addinsell

    The Isle of Apples

    Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.
    • MARCO POLO.

  • Rachel Portman

    Tipping Points (3rd mvt, 'Water')

    Performer: Niklas Liepe. Conductor: Erina Yashima. Orchestra: WDR Funkhausorchester.
    • SONY.

  • Stewart Goodyear

    Piano Sonata (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Stewart Goodyear.
    • ORCHID CLASSICS.

  • Barbara Strozzi

    Che si può fare (What can I do?) arr for cello and orchestra

    Performer: Anastasia Kobekina. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel.
    • SONY.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Daphnis et Chloe, M 57 (Troisieme partie: No 11)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
    • THE CLASSICAL LABEL.

  • Oliver Davis

    Water Variations and Theme (Variation II)

    Ensemble: Beth & Flo.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Ernest John Moeran

    Lonely Waters

    Singer: Rebekah Coffey. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • NAXOS.

  • Daniel Elder

    Elegy

    Choir: Westminster Choir. Conductor: Joe Miller.
    • Westminster Choir College of Rider University.

  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Piano Sonata No 9 in F sharp minor, No 3 Op 5 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sarah Cahill.
    • FIRST HAND.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op 125, 'Choral' (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Manfred Honeck. Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
    • REFERENCE RECORDINGS.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Whispered lullaby

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Evelyn Chang.
    • AVIE.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Job, a Masque for Dancing (Scene 5: 'Dance of the Three Messengers')

    Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.
    • WARNER.

  • Franz Liszt

    Years of Pilgrimage, Second Year: Italy (Venice and Naples: No 1, 'Gondoliera')

    • THE CLASSICAL LABEL.

  • Trevor Weston

    Given Sound

    Choir: Choir of Trinity Wall Street. Conductor: Julian Wachner.
    • ACIS.

  • Cecil Forsyth

    Viola Concerto in G minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Lawrence Power. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • HYPERION.

  • Alberto Giurioli

    Endless Spring

    Performer: Alberto Giurioli.
    • PLATOON.

  • Eugène Dédé

    Bees and Bumblebees, Op 562

    Conductor: Reuben Blundell. Ensemble: Gowanus Arts Ensemble.
    • NEW FOCUS.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Love's Labour's Lost, Op 28 (1st mvt, 'So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not')

    Conductor: Nicholas Collon. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra.
    • DECCA.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet No 25 in E major, No1 Op17 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Aeolian Quartet.
    • THE CLASSICAL LABEL.

  • Georgs Pelēcis

    Flowering Jasmine

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Orchestra: Kremerata Baltica.
    • NONESUCH.

  • Helena Munktell

    Suite for Large Orchestra (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Tobias Ringborg. Orchestra: Gävle symfoniorkester.
    • STERLING.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Winter 3 from Recomposed By Max Richter (Vivaldi, 'The Four Seasons')

    Composer: Max Richter. Performer: Daniel Hope. Conductor: André de Ridder. Orchestra: Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin.
    • DG.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    St Matthew ion, BWV 244 (Part 1: No 1, 'Chorus')

    • BEST 4 CLASSICAL.

  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Yume-Awase, Yume-Tagae, Op 74a (Within Dreams, Without Dreams)

    Performer: Nanae Yoshimura. Ensemble: Pro Musica Nipponia.
    • CELESTIAL HARMONIES.

  • Niccolò Paganini

    Caprice No 24 in A minor for solo violin, Op 1

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman.
    • WARNER.

  • Arcade Fire

    Some Other Place from the Original Score of Her (2013)

    Composer: Owen Pallett. Ensemble: Arcade Fire.
    • MILAN.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Romance of the Prairie Lilies, Op.39

    Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Leaper.
    • MARCO POLO.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E flat major (3rd mvt, 'Romance')

    Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.
    • ERATO.

  • Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie

    Coriolanus, Op 61 (2nd mvt, 'Marche funèbre')

    Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • HELIOS.

  • William Henry Harris

    Faire is the Heaven

    Choir: VOCES8. Choir: Apollo5. Conductor: Barnaby Smith.
    • VOCES8 RECORDS.

Broadcasts

  • Tue 29 Apr 2025 09:00
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  • Last Sunday 09:00
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