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Welcome the evening with a calming classical playlist

Niall Breslin brings you calming classical music to help you release the stresses of the day, recharge and prepare to rest.

Three hours of calming classical music to help you release the stresses of the day, recharge and prepare to rest - presented by Irish musician and mindfulness expert Niall Breslin.

This episode features a rich blend of music from the likes of Amy Beach, Doming Lam and Mozart. Plus, a chance to Press Pause with meditation teacher Michael James Wong, and some essential Wind Down Wisdom from science podcaster Caroline Steel on how watering houseplants can help untangle your mind.

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Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Salut d'amour, Op 12

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart.

  • Alexis Ffrench

    Good Morning

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench.
    • Good Morning.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Amy Beach

    Dusk in June

    Ensemble: Lyyra.
    • Rising.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Andrzej Panufnik

    Love Song

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Walker.
    • Panufnik: Concertos & Symphony No. 10.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 7.

  • Yoko Kanno

    Hana wa Saku

    Performer: Kaori Muraji.
    • Canon.
    • Universal Music LLC.
    • 4.

  • Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

    Symphony No. 4 in F Major, Kr. 76 "Die Rettung der Andromeda durch Perseus"

    Conductor: Hanspeter Gm眉r. Orchestra: Failoni Chamber Orchestra Budapest.
    • Dittersdorf: Sinfonias On Ovid's Metamorphoses, Nos. 4 - 6.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vocalise, Op 34 No 14, arr. Zoltan Kocsis

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Rachmaninoff: Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 (Arr. Kocsis for Piano).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Ernest Chausson

    Concert for violin, piano and string quartet, Op 21 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Nicholas Angelich. Ensemble: Quatuor 脡b猫ne.
    • Chausson: Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet, Op. 21: II. Sicilienne.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    nostalgia

    Performer: Ola Gjeilo.
    • nostalgia.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Trio for viola, cello & piano, Op 114 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Mikhail Zemtsov. Performer: Timora Rosler. Performer: Hanna Shybayeva.
    • Complete Works for Viola, Vol. 2.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 2.

  • Sally Beamish

    Gerropaedie

    Performer: Sally Beamish. Performer: Stephanie Irvine.
    • Gerropaedie.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin concerto in E major, BWV 1042 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sigiswald Kuijken. Ensemble: La Petite Bande.
    • Johann Sebastian Bach: Harpsichord Concertos Vol. 2.
    • Accent.
    • 8.

  • 脫lafur Arnalds

    for Steph

    Composer: Talos. Performer: 脫lafur Arnalds. Performer: Talos.
    • A Dawning.
    • An OPIA Community & Mercury KX recording.
    • 7.

  • Gerald Finzi

    A Severn Rhapsody Op.3

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit - The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 16.

  • Franz Schubert

    Arpeggione sonata in A minor, D 821 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Anastasia Kobekina. Performer: Elisabeth Brauss.

  • Claude Debussy

    The Girl with the Flaxen Hair

    Orchestrator: Colin Matthews. Performer: Jonathan Morton. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • LINN: CKD 512.
    • Linn Records.
    • 6.

  • Blake Clawson

    Haust

    Performer: Peyton Magalhaes. Performer: Aric Vyhmeister. Ensemble: Renova New Music Ensemble.
    • Myrkvun.
    • Blake Clawson.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 39 in E flat major, K 543 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.

  • Jamie Elless

    Refine your work life balance

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

  • Yerkesh Shakeyev

    Moonflower

    Orchestra: London Metropolitan Orchestra. Conductor: Andy Brown.
    • Yerkesh Shakeyev: Wedding Symphony.
    • Yerkesh Shakeyev.

  • Alanna Crouch

    Lost in Time

    Performer: Alanna Crouch.
    • Bigo & Twigetti.

  • Alicia Lazaro

    The Song of the Sea (Love)

    Performer: Alicia Lazaro.
    • There Is No End To Anything Round.
    • Alicia Lazaro.

  • Alexander Pierce Hill

    Receive Me Today

    Ensemble: Apollo5.
    • Draw Near.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 2.

  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Partia III in A Major: Allamande

    Performer: Florian Deuter. Performer: M贸nica Waisman. Ensemble: Harmonie Universelle.
    • Biber: Partia III in A Major: Allamande.
    • Accent.
    • 1.

  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    Who knows?

    Performer: Alexandra Mackenzie. Performer: Ingrid Sawers.
    • Beyond Twilight: Music for Cello & Piano by Female Composers.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 2.

  • Tony Woollard

    Sea of Tranquility

    Performer: Tony Woollard.
    • The Moon on the Istrian Riviera, Part 1.
    • Bigo & Twigetti.

  • Brombaer

    Metropolis at Night

    Performer: Brombaer.
    • Demlin.
    • Mankis Stankis Records.

  • Samuel Barber

    Adagio (from String Quartet, Op 11)

    Ensemble: Isidore String Quartet.
    • Adorations.
    • Delos.
    • 5.

  • Anita Datta

    Shash

    Performer: Krishal Kaylash. Performer: Kaviraj Singh Dhadyalla. Choir: 麻豆社 Singers. Conductor: Sarah Latto.

  • Christian Balvig

    Praesentia (Bird suite, No 2)

    Performer: Christian Balvig.
    • Night Poem.

  • Doming Lam

    Retrograde

    Performer: Natalie Lin Douglas. Performer: Patrick Yim.
    • Lam: Retrograde.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 1.

  • Misha Mullov-Abbado

    The Stage Hand

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Parkinson.

  • Henriette Reni茅

    Andante religioso

    Ensemble: Ensemble Des Equilibres.
    • Cordes r锚vent.
    • Klarthe.

  • Alex Dowling

    Inner Orbits 1

    Ensemble: Friction Quartet.
    • Proper Nostalgia.
    • Aerocade Music.

  • Amanda R枚ntgen-Maier

    Lento (6 pieces for violin & piano, No 3)

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • Six Pieces for Violin & Piano: III. Lento (Arr. for Violin & Harp by Esther Abra.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.

  • Moshimoss

    Key to the Heart

    • The Boy, The Girl & The Key.
    • Moshimoss / We All Speak In Poems.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Venetian Boat Song (Songs without words, Op 19 No 6)

    Orchestrator: Lahav Shani. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Lahav Shani.
    • Mendelssohn: Venetian Gondola Song, Op. 19 No. 6.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

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