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Soothe your mind with restful classical tunes

Enjoy this collection of restful classical music to calm your busy mind.

Enjoy this collection of classical music to calm your busy mind. Paired with natural soundscapes, this mix features sweeping orchestral arrangements from Rachel Portman and Rahul Gohil, calming piano by Frédéric Chopin and Roger Eno, and soothing choral harmonies by Hanna Havrylets and William Byrd.

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

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  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467: II. Andante

    Performer: David Fray. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey. Orchestra: Insula Orchestra.
    • Musiques de cinéma.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 15.
  • Igor Stravinsky

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

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

    Barcarolle No. 4 in A-Flat Major, Op. 44

    Performer: Pascal Rogé.
    • Fauré: Barcarolle No. 4 in A-Flat Major, Op. 44.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 1 No. 4: I. Allegro moderato

    Performer: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Performer: Roxana Rastegar. Performer: Anna Sypniewski. Performer: Hanna Salzenstein.
    • Le Chevalier de Saint-George - Portrait.
    • Château de Versailles Spectacles.
    • 2.
  • Randall Thompson

    Alleluia

    Conductor: Irene Messoloras. Ensemble: Meridian.
    • Finding Light.
    • Signum Records.
    • 11.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Le Carneval Des Animaux, R. 125: VII. Aquarium. Andantino

    Orchestra: ORF Vienna Radio Symphony.
    • Berlin Classics.
  • Noriko Koide

    Swaddling Silk and Gossamer Rain

    Orchestra: 鶹 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
    • Dalia's Mixtape.
    • Platoon.
    • 11.
  • John Ireland

    Decorations: No. 2, Moon-Glade. Poco lento

    Performer: Aline Piboule.
    • Archipel (Debussy: La Mer - Ireland: Sarnia).
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 8.
  • Rahul Gohil

    As Rain Fell Upon Frankland Road

    Performer: Rahul Gohil.
    • ExoPAC Recordings.
  • Karl Jenkins

    The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace: X. Agnus Dei

    Conductor: Irene Messoloras. Ensemble: Meridian.
    • Finding Light.
    • Signum Records.
    • 7.
  • Claude Debussy

    Danse profance (Danse sacrée et danse profane)

    Music Arranger: Vassilena Serafimova. Performer: Vassilena Serafimova. Ensemble: Quatuor Ardeo.
    • Melodies in a Bottle.
    • La Dolce Volta.
    • 6.
  • Nadia Boulanger

    3 Pieces for Cello and Piano, INB 11: No. 2 in A Minor

    Performer: Andrei Korobeinikov. Performer: Johannes Moser. Performer: Andrei Korobeinikov.
    • The French Album.
    • Platoon.
    • 14.
  • Rachel Portman

    Dolomites, pale mountains: IV. Saslonch

    Performer: Alexander Gilman. Ensemble: LGT Young Soloists. Conductor: Rachel Portman.
    • Dolomites, pale mountains/IV. Saslonch.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.
  • Jacques Arcadelt

    Il bianco e dolce cigno

    Conductor: Owain Park. Ensemble: The Gesualdo Six.
    • Hyperion.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Concerto in D Major, Op. 77: II. Adagio

    Performer: Francesca Dego. Orchestra: 鶹 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
    • Brahms & Busoni Violin Concertos.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 5.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne No. 15 in F Minor, Op. 55 No. 1

    Performer: Rafał Blechacz.
    • Chopin: Nocturne No. 15 in F Minor, Op. 55 No. 1 (Musical Moments).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    5 Fairy Ballads (Perf. on Bassoon): No. 1, Sweet Baby Butterfly

    Performer: Tom Poster. Performer: Amy Harman.
    • The Bassoonist’s Songbook.
    • Chandos Records Ltd.
    • 14.
  • Catrin Finch

    Caerdroea an Ceol (After Pietro Locatelli)

    Composer: Aoife Ní Bhriain. Performer: Catrin Finch. Performer: Aoife Ní Bhriain.
    • bendigedig.
  • Robert Schumann

    Three Romances, Op. 94 (Arr. for Viola and Piano): I. Nicht schnell

    Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: Javier Perianes.
    • Brahms: Trio Op. 114. Robert & Clara Schumann: Romances.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 2.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15: I. Maestoso

    Performer: Emmanuel Despax. Conductor: Andrew Litton. Orchestra: 鶹 Symphony Orchestra.
    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15: I. Maestoso (Radio Edit).
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.
  • Hanna Havrylets

    Prayer

    Singer: Grace Davidson. Choir: Meridian. Conductor: Irene Messoloras.
    • Finding Light.
    • Signum Records.
    • 3.
  • Kristjan Järvi

    Look Up America

    Performer: Min Kwon.
    • America/Beautiful.
    • Delos.
    • 3.
  • Shir-Ran Yinon

    Choral

    Ensemble: Mondëna Quartet.
    • Choral.
    • Handpicked Records.
    • 1.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 126: II. Adagio molto, Piu mosso

    Performer: Benjamin Frith. Conductor: Andrew Gourlay. Orchestra: 鶹 National Orchestra of Wales.
    • Stanford: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Works for Solo Piano.
    • Champs Hill Records.
    • 2.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Songs My Mother Taught Me (Arr. for Violin and Piano)

    Performer: Manon Galy. Performer: Jorge González Buajasán.
    • Dvořák: Songs My Mother Taught Me (Arr. for Violin and Piano by Galy & Gonza.
    • 貹é.
    • 1.
  • Giacomo Carissimi

    Historia di Jephte: Plorate filii Israel

    Performer: Amanda Forsythe. Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble.
    • CPO.
  • Karl Weigl

    3 Intermezzi: I. Revelation. Andante moderato

    Ensemble: Thomas Christian Ensemble. Conductor: Christoph Wimmer-Schenkel.
    • CPO.
  • Florence Price

    Adoration

    • Milestones.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 9.
  • Roger Eno

    The Quiet of Snow

    Performer: Roger Eno.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
  • Edward Elgar

    Violin Concerto in B Minor, Op. 61: II. Andante

    Performer: Nicolas Dautricourt. Conductor: Frédéric Chaslin. Orchestra: 鶹 National Orchestra of Wales.
    • Elgar: Violin Concerto & Salut d'amour - Delius: Suite.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 2.
  • Zofia Neugebauer

    Il Vento non Scritto

    Performer: Zofia Neugebauer.
    • EDEL Music & Entertainment GmbH.
  • Luke Faulkner

    Dawn

    Performer: Emma Arizza. Performer: Martha Mitu. Performer: Caleb Sibley. Performer: Tom Huet. Performer: Luke Faulkner.
    • Dawn.
    • Curly Records.
    • 1.
  • Cristóbal de Morales

    Parce mihi, Domine

    Performer: Imanol Iraola. Music Arranger: Simon‐Pierre Bestion. Conductor: Simon‐Pierre Bestion. Ensemble: La Tempête.
    • Bomba Flamenca.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 18.
  • Franz Liszt

    12 Lieder von Franz Schubert Ave Maria, S. 558: Ellens dritter Gesang

    Performer: Stella Almondo.
    • naïve, a label of Believe Group.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E flat major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Toulouse.
    • Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E-Flat Major (Version for String Orchestra).
    • 貹é.
    • 1.
  • Erland Cooper

    Music For Growing Flowers (Nocturne) (Pt. 1)

    Performer: Erland Cooper.
    • Music For Growing Flowers (Nocturne) (Pt. 1).
    • Mercury Classics.
    • 1.
  • William Byrd

    Peccantem me quotidie a 5, T. 6 (Cantiones Sacrae, 1575)

    Lyricist: Anon.. Conductor: Owain Park. Choir: The Gesualdo Six.
    • Lux aeterna: A Sequence for the Souls of the Departed.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

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