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Classical music for a quiet evening

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 Mozart, Beethoven and Philip Glass. 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 writing a 'done' list can help you feel calm at the end of the day.

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Music Played

  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Etude No 38 in A Minor

    Performer: Pierpaola Porqueddu.
    • Halidon.

  • Dora Peja?evi?

    Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in C, Op.29 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Trio W.
    • Naxos.

  • Gabriel Verdalle

    Impromptu No 2 in A-Flat

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • Spohr, Fauré, Pierné, Saint-Sa?ns & Roussel: Fantasies and Impromptus.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 7.

  • Eleanor Daley

    Upon Your Heart

    Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • All Things are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 13.

  • Philip Glass

    Glass: The Hours - The Hours - Arr. for cello and piano by Bruno Fontaine - The

    Music Arranger: Bruno Fontaine.
    • Echoes.
    • Universal Music Division Decca Records France.
    • 10.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in A minor, Op 6 No 4

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Handel: Twelve Concerti Grossi, Op.6 Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini.
    • Decca.
    • 15.

  • Claude Debussy

    La Fille aux cheveux de lin (from Preludes - book 1) arr. for guitar

    Performer: Alexandra Whittingham. Music Arranger: Julian Bream.
    • DECCA.

  • John Foulds

    Impressions of Time and Place (Isles of Greece Op.48)

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • J Foulds, Keltic Suite: 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra/Corp.
    • Epoch.
    • 6.

  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    Suite for Violin and Piano (2nd mvmt, Cavatina)

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Zhu Wang.
    • Roots (Deluxe Edition).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 20.

  • 水野良树

    Blue Bird (from "Naruto") [Arr. Telleria for Piano]

    Composer: Rayan Telleria.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Nicola Antonio Porpora

    Alto giove (Polifemo)

    Performer: Jan Vogler. Orchestra: La Folia Barockorchester. Director: Robin Peter Müller.
    • Sony.

  • Trad.

    The Parting Glass (Arr. Huws for Harp)

    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Frederick Delius

    Winter Landscape (North Country Sketches)

    Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Delius: Brigg Fair etc: Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera/Mackerras.
    • Argo.
    • 5.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115

    Performer: Oleg Shebeta-Dragan. Ensemble: NOVO Quartet.

  • Philippe Gaubert

    Flute Sonata in A major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Timothy Hutchins. Performer: Janet Creaser Hutchins.
    • Flute a la Francaise - Timothy Hutchins (flute) & Janet Creaser Hutchins (piano).
    • Decca.
    • 12.

  • Florian Christl

    Voyage

    • About Time.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 9.

  • Stephan Moccio

    Hold Me Close

    Composer: Peter Gregson.
    • Legends, Myths and Lavender (Complete).
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 30.

  • Liam Taylor-West

    A Slow Breath

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Palmer.

  • Belle Chen

    Rise

    Conductor: Ben Palmer.
    • Rise.
    • Platoon.
    • 101.

  • Alexis Ffrench

    Hope, Ascending

    • Esther Abrami.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 6.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No 4 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Martin Owen. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Gábor Takács‐Nagy.
    • Chandos Records Ltd.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Slow and quiet (Nocturnal after John Dowland)

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Dreams and Fancies: English Music for Solo Guitar.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 27.

  • Ed Frazier Davis

    O magnum mysterium

    Choir: 麻豆社 Singers. Conductor: Nicholas Chalmers.

  • Eydís Evensen

    Transcending

    • The Light.
    • XXIM Records.
    • 6.

  • ?lafur Arnalds

    saman (Arr. Lawson for Saxophone & Ensemble)

    • saman (Arr. Lawson for Saxophone & Ensemble).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Moonlight

    Composer: Christian Badzura.
    • Moonlight.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Evelyn Glennie

    Seraph

    Composer: Michael Levine.
    • ANW3000 Double Crossings.
    • Audio Network.
    • 6.

  • Kosaku Yamada

    Aka tombo (Arr. Hough for Piano)

    • Stephen Hough's Piano Postcards.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

  • Marin Marais

    Les Voix humaines (Suite - book 2 no. 3 in D major)

    Music Arranger: Thomas Dunford. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • ERATO.

  • Ludovico Einaudi

    Elegy For The Arctic

    • 12 Songs From Home.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 5.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 5 (4th mvmt, Adagietto)

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth.

  • Helen Habershon

    The Bronze Horseman (Arr. J. Lenehan): II. Andante

    • Found in Winter: Works by Helen Habershon.
    • Divine Art.
    • 602.

  • Erland Cooper

    Haar over Hamnavoe

    Composer: William Edward Ryder Jones.
    • Holm (Variations & B-sides).
    • Believe International.
    • 7.

  • Antonio José

    Guitar Sonata: iii. Pavana triste

    Performer: Marko Topchii.
    • NAXOS.

  • Jasmine Myra

    Words Left Unspoken

    • Matthew Halsall t/a Gondwana Records.

  • Lili Boulanger

    Nocturne

    Performer: Tal Walker.
    • L. Boulanger: Nocturne (Arr. for Piano by Tal Walker).
    • Antarctica Records.
    • 1.

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