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Calm your morning with glorious 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 flowing, enchanting melodies from Arvo Part, Florence Price, and Leonard Bernstein, and a chance to Find your Focus through the music of composer and bassist Yosef Gutman. Sian muses on the reassuring effect of the changing seasons while out to Take a Breath. Also, Professor Catherine Loveday explores whether our responses to music might change depending on whether we are listening to it on speakers or on headphones.

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Music Played

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Divertimento for Orchestra (2nd mvt, 'Waltz')

    Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
    • The Classics.

  • Nikolai Karlovich Medtner

    Canzona Matinata

    Performer: Maria Ioudenitch. Performer: Kenny Broberg. Music Arranger: Kenny Broberg.
    • Warner.

  • Josephine Lang

    An den See Variation (After 6 Deutsche Lieder: No 4)

    Performer: Eldbjorg Hemsing. Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Performer: Sophie Pacini. Music Arranger: Jan-Peter Kl枚pfel.
    • Sony.

  • Ignacy Jan Paderewski

    Suite in G major (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Mariusz Smolij. Orchestra: Capella Bydgostiensis.
    • Naxos.

  • John Brunning

    5 Romances (No 2, 'Dusk')

    Performer: Xuefei Yang. Conductor: Johannes Moser. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Prima Facie.

  • Arvo P盲rt

    7 Magnificat-Antiphons (No 5, 'O Morgenstern')

    Choir: Vox Clamantis. Conductor: Jaan-Eik Tulve.
    • ECM.

  • George Gershwin

    Bess, You Is My Woman Now

    Performer: Fedor Rudin. Ensemble: Signum Saxophone Quartet.
    • Berlin Classics.

  • Mongo Santamar铆a

    Afro Blue (arr for violincello and vibraphone)

    Performer: Anna Carewe. Performer: Oli Bott.
    • Hanssler.

  • Frederic Bayco

    Elizabethan Masque

    Conductor: Ronald Corp. Orchestra: New London Orchestra.
    • Hyperion.

  • Yosef Gutman

    Sleeping My Heart Awake

    Composer: 讙诇注讚 专讜谞谉. Performer: Yosef Gutman.
    • Soul Song Records.

  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    3 Morceaux, Op 11 (No 1, Prelude in B minor)

    Performer: Sophie Kauer. Performer: Kunal Lahiry.
    • DG.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in C minor Op 6 No 8, HWV 326 (5th mvt, Siciliana)

    Director: Bernhard Forck. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Pentatone.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Ballade, Op 19

    Performer: William Youn. Conductor: Valentin Uryupin. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.
    • Sony.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade No 10 in B flat major, K 361, 'Gran Partita' (2nd mvt, Menuetto)

    Performer: Mark Simpson. Performer: Fraser Langton. Performer: Nicholas Daniel.
    • Orchid Classics.

  • Eric Coates

    Lazy Night

    Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Nainita Desai

    Beauty Is In the Detail

    • Mercury.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 731 (arr for orchestra)

    Music Arranger: Andrew Davis. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Tuomas Kantelinen

    Lumikuningatar (No 19, 'Kehtolaulu')

    Conductor: Tuomas Kantelinen. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Finnish National Opera.
    • Ondine.

  • Veljo Tormis

    4 Estonian Lullabies (No 3, 'Let the Cradle Swing!')

    Choir: The Gesualdo Six. Conductor: Owain Park.
    • Hyperion.

  • Leighton Lucas

    Ice Cold In Alex Suite (2nd mvt, 'Love Scene')

    Conductor: Rumon Gamba. Orchestra: 麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales.
    • Chandos.

  • Miguel Llobet Sol茅s

    Catalan Folk Songs (No 7 & No 13)

    Performer: Rapha毛l Feuill芒tre.
    • DG.

  • Alexis Ffrench

    The Dawn of Spring

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench.
    • AFM.

  • Joseph Bologne

    Symphonie Concertante in F major, Op 10 No1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Yury Revich. Performer: Libor Je啪ek. Conductor: Michael Hal谩sz. Orchestra: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Naxos.

  • Florence Price

    Piano Concerto in One Movement (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jeneba Kanneh鈥怣ason. Conductor: Leslie Suganandarajah. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra.
    • Decca.

  • Josquin des Prez

    Ave Maria Virgo Serena

    Choir: Voces 8.
    • DECCA.

  • Ida Presti

    Danse rythmique

    Performer: Alexandra Whittingham.
    • Decca.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Ciaccona

    Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises. Director: Louis-No毛l Bestion de Camboulas.
    • Ambronay.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream, Incidental Music, Op 61 (No 7, Nocturne)

    Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • LSO Live.

  • Edward Gregson

    A Song for Sue (version for piano & orchestra)

    Performer: Edward Gregson. Conductor: Ben Gernon. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Harp Sonata (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Anne鈥怱ophie Bertrand.
    • ARS Produktion.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 6 in B minor, Op 74, 'Pathetique' (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Kirill Petrenko. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker.

  • John Ireland

    Bagatalle (arr for cello & string orchestra)

    Performer: Raphael Wallfisch. Conductor: David Curtis. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Swan.
    • Naxos.

  • Tan Dun

    8 Memories in Watercolour (No 7, 'Floating Clouds')

    Performer: Ralph van Raat.
    • Naxos.

  • Sophia Jani

    Postlude

    Ensemble: Barbican Quartet.
    • Berlin Classics.

  • Mel Bonis

    Pavane, Op 81/3

    Conductor: Joseph Bastian. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne.
    • CPO.

  • Laura Snowden

    Home

    Performer: Laura Snowden.
    • Bandcamp.

  • Georges Bizet

    Symphony in C major (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Marc Soustrot. Orchestra: Aarhus Symfoniorkester.
    • Danacord.

  • Giovanni Battista Sammartini

    Symphony in D major (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Milan Classical Chamber Orchestra. Director: Roberto Gini.
    • Dynamic.

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