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Ease into your day with welcoming harmonies

Calming classical music to inspire focus and set you up for the day ahead. Presented by broadcaster, author and psychologist Dr Sian Williams.

Calming classical music to help you focus and set you up for the day ahead. Presented by broadcaster, author and psychologist Dr Sian Williams.

Featuring soothing and nourishing melodies from Clara Schumann, JS Bach and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 鈥 plus learn if listening to classical music can make you more intelligent, and Sian goes on a walk to explores how embracing the seasons can be beneficial for our health.

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Music Played

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Serenade for Strings in E major, Op.22 (IV. Larghetto)

    Performer: Archi di Santa Cecilia. Performer: Luigi Piovano.
    • ELOQUENTIA.
  • Frank Bridge

    Music When Soft Voices Die

    Performer: Tenebrae. Performer: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets, Op. 32 (Venus, the Bringer of Peace)

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • RPO/DE WOLFE.
  • Clara Schumann

    3 Romances, Op. 11 - No. 1, Andante

    Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Romance 鈥 The Piano Music of Clara Schumann.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Symphony No. 2 in One Movement, Op. 30: V. Adagio

    Performer: 麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales. Performer: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.
  • John Ireland

    The Holy Boy

    Performer: Sinfonia of London. Performer: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude, Fugue & Allegro for Lute in E flat major, BWV998 (I. Prelude)

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • DELPHIAN.
  • Adolphus Hailstork

    Symphony No.1 (II. Adagio: Lento ma non troppo)

    Performer: Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Performer: JoAnn Falletta.
    • NAXOS.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une infante d茅funte, M. 19 (Arr. Maganini for Flute and Harp)

    Performer: Markus Klinko. Performer: Beno卯t Fromanger.
    • ERATO.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Pell茅as et M茅lisande (Suite symphonique) [Arr. J. Nott for Orchestra], Act 1: M茅

    Performer: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Performer: Jonathan Nott.
    • PENTATONE.
  • H茅l猫ne de Montgeroult

    Piano 脡tude No. 37 in G Major

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • BIS.
  • John Foulds

    Isles of Greece

    Performer: 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra. Performer: Ronald Corp.
    • (DUTTON/麻豆社).
  • Toru Takemitsu

    Nami no Bon (I. Tray of Waves)

    Performer: Sakkyo. Performer: Tadaaki Otaka.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Overture from La Traviata (Prelude to Act I)

    Performer: Orchestra of the Budapest State. Performer: Iosif Conta.
    • CLASSICAL GALLERY.
  • Elfrida Andr茅e

    Four Piano Pieces: (I. Andantino)

    Performer: Oskar Ekberg.
    • DAPHNE.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Les Bor茅ades / Act IV - Entr茅e de Polymnie (Live)

    Performer: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Performer: Marc Minkowski.
    • DG.
  • Sally Beamish

    In the Stillness

    Performer: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Performer: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Performer: Anna Lapwood.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Two Little Pieces (II. No毛l)

    Performer: Craig Ogden.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Birds (Gli Uccelli): La Colomba

    Performer: S茫o Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Li猫ge. Performer: John Neschling.
    • BIS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 19: II. Adagio (Live)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra. Performer: G谩bor Tak谩cs鈥怤agy.
    • DG.
  • Betty Jackson King

    Four Seasonal Sketches for Piano: No. 1, Spring Intermezzo

    Performer: Samantha Ege.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Suite For Violin And String Orchestra, Op. 117 - 1. Country Scenery

    Performer: Esther Yoo. Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra. Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DG.
  • Mel Bonis

    Piece Op.189

    Performer: Juliette Hurel. Performer: H茅l猫ne Couvert.
    • ALPHA.
  • Franz Schreker

    Valse Lente

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
  • Arthur Bliss

    Kenilworth, F 13 (II. Serenade on the Lake)

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Performer: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Musick, Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: VI. Air

    Performer: Alfredo Bernardini. Performer: Zefiro.
    • ARCANA.
  • Louis Spohr

    Concertante in G Major for Violin and Harp, WoO 13 (Adagio)

    Performer: Mar铆a Due帽as. Performer: Volker Kempf. Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker.
    • DG.
  • Morten Lauridsen

    O Nata Lux

    Performer: Voces 8.
    • DECCA.
  • Henriette Reni茅

    Harp Concerto in C Minor (II. Adagio)

    Performer: Emmanuel Ceysson. Performer: Orchestre R茅gional Avignon Provence. Performer: Samuel Jean.
    • NAIVE.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Magnolia, Pt. 2 (IV. Mammy)

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • NAVONA.
  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de Nuit, Op.15 No.1

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • RPO/DE WOLFE.
  • Rebecca Dale

    Materna Requiem (6. Paradisum Interlude)

    Performer: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Clark Rundell.
    • DECCA.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Quintet in E-Flat Major, K. 407/386c: II. Andante

    Performer: Nash Ensemble.
    • PARLAPHONE.
  • Imogen Holst

    Variations on "Loth to Depart" (Theme)

    Performer: 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra. Performer: Alice Farnham.
    • NMC.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Love's Labour's Lost Suite, Op. 28a: IX. Soliloquy No. 3, Dumaine's Poem

    Performer: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Performer: Howard Griffiths.
    • NAXOS.
  • C茅cile Chaminade

    Po猫mes Proven莽al, Op. 127 (II. Solitude)

    Performer: Joanne Polk.
    • STEINWAY&SONS.
  • Ronald Binge

    The Watermill

    Performer: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Ernest Tomlinson.
    • NAXOS.
  • Rachel Portman

    The Duchess: End Titles

    Performer: Session Orchestra.
    • LAKESHORE RECORDS.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    6 Polish Songs, S. 480: II. Fr眉hling (Arr. Liszt after Chopin, Op. 74 No. 2)

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Mariam Batsashvili.
    • WARNER.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64: III. Valse. Allegro moderato

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.
    • BERLIN PHILHARMONIC.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Romance for Violin, Op.39 (I. Larghetto)

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Chineke! Orchestra. Performer: Kevin John Edusei.
    • DECCA.

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