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Calming winter music to lift your mood

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

Calming wintery 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 uplifting and enriching seasonal melodies from Tchaikovsky, Florence Price, and Karl Jenkins, this special winter episode explores the smells of the season. Plus, Professor Catherine Loveday explains how it is possible to use music to banish the winter blues.

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Music Played

  • Alexander Glazunov

    The Seasons, Op 67, Pt 1 'Winter': No. 2, Winter Scene, No. 3, Frost Variation

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.
    • EMI.

  • Henry Purcell

    Now Winter Comes Slowly from tne Fairy Queen

    Ensemble: Sjaella.
    • Fuga Libera.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Aquarium

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Snow Maiden, Op 12 'Snegourotchka' (10th mvt, 'Melodrama')

    Orchestra: Metamorphose String Orchestra. Conductor: Pavel Lyubomudrov.
    • HALIDON.

  • Sophie Hutchings

    Flowers in Snow

    Performer: Sophie Hutchings.
    • DECCA.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No 7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (4th mvt, 'Intermezzo')

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • WARNER.

  • Florence Price

    Song for Snow

    Performer: Libby Burgess. Choir: 麻豆社 Singers. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

  • Alexis Ffrench

    Winter Nights

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench.
    • SONY.

  • John Rutter

    Blow, blow, thou winter wind

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Universal.

  • 脫lafur Arnalds

    For Now I am Winter

    Performer: Arn贸r Dan. Performer: Nils Frahm.
    • Phillips.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Die Jahrezeiten (4th mvt, Winter)

    Performer: Colin Davis. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra.
    • Phillips.

  • Rebecca Dale

    Winter

    Performer: VOCES8. Performer: Mari Samuelsen. Performer: H氓kon Samuelsen.
    • DECCA.

  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    White Landscapes, Op 47 No 1, Divination by snow

    Performer: John Barrow. Performer: Kate Wilson. Performer: Jonathan Price. Performer: Sachio Fujioka. Ensemble: Manchester Camerata.
    • Chandos.

  • Henri Duparc

    Aux 脡toiles

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon. Conductor: Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider.
    • PALAZETTO.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Tropic Winter: VI. Noon Siesta

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • My Cup Runneth Over: The Complete Piano Works of R. Nathaniel Dett.

  • Claude Debussy

    Des pas sur la neige

    Performer: Quintessenz. Performer: Gudrun Hinze.
    • GENUIN.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    S茅r茅nade d'Hiver

    Performer: Amacord.
    • APOLLON.

  • Alexander Gadjiev

    Improvisation, 'Cold'

    Performer: Alexander Gadjiev.

  • Karl Jenkins

    Stella Natalis, 'Sleep, Child of Winter'

    Choir: Tenebrae.
    • EMI.

  • Mary Lattimore

    Pine Trees

  • Jean Sibelius

    Valse Triste

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thomas S酶nderg氓rd.

  • Judith Bingham

    The darkness is no darkness

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • DECCA.

  • Georgy Sviridov

    The Snowstorm, (8th mvt, Echoes of Waltz)

    Performer: Vladmir Fedeoseyev.
    • MEZHDUNARODNAYA KNIGA.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Das Jahr - January

    Performer: Lauma Skride.

  • Evelyn Glennie

    Light in Darkness

    Performer: Evelyn Glennie.
    • SONY.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Winter Bonfire, Op 122 (2nd mvt, snow outside the window)

    Orchestra: New London Orchestra.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, 'Winter'

    Performer: Thibaut Garcia.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Ballet des flocons de neige - Les hirondelles bleues

    • ALBI Classical.

  • Robert Schumann

    Album fur die Jugent, Op 68, 39, Winterzeit II

    Performer: Vladimir Feltsman.
    • WYASTONE.

  • Jon Reeves

    Celestial Winter Night

  • Max Richter

    Winter 3

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra.
    • DG.

  • Franz Schubert

    Winterreise, S 561 (8th mvt, Der Lindenbaum)

    Composer: Franz Liszt. Performer: Leslie Howard.
    • Hyperion.

  • Anna Lapwood

    Winter Time

    Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • SONY.

  • Jacob Shea

    The Arctic Suite, (1st Mvt, Frozen World)

    Performer: Edbjorg Hemsing. Orchestra: Arctic Philharmonic.
    • SONY.

  • Frank Bridge

    Winter Pastoral

    Performer: Mark Bebbington.
    • SOMM.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt Suite No 2, Op 55 (4th mvt, Solveig's Song)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.

  • William Alwyn

    3 Winter Poems (No. 3. Serenade, "Snow shower")

    Ensemble: The Bridge String Quartet.
    • NAXOS.

  • Ludovico Einaudi

    Elegy for the Arctic

    Performer: Ludovico Einaudi.
    • DECCA.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Dance of the sugar plum fairy

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Nutcracker - Act 1, Scene 2, 'March'

  • Ola Gjeilo

    Wintertide

    Choir: The Choir of Royal Holloway.

  • Gustav Holst

    St Paul's Suite, Finale

  • Francis Poulenc

    Un soir de neige, Fp 126 (3rd mvt, Bois meutri)

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.

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