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Find calm with a classical music playlist for the 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 Karl Jenkins, Clemence de Grandval and Mozart. Plus, a chance to Press Pause with Michael James Wong and some essential Wind Down Wisdom from science podcaster Caroline Steel on the benefits of looking out the window.

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Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Suite bergamasque, L. 75: III. Clair de lune

    • Claves Records.

  • Karl Jenkins

    The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace - Benedictus

    Performer: Christian Forshaw. Music Arranger: Thomas Hewitt Jones. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • In Paradisum (France).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 11.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Romance in B major

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Peebles.
    • SOMM.

  • Ludovico Einaudi

    Experience (Solo Piano)

    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    6 Studies in English Folksongs

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: James Baillieu.

  • Clémence de Grandval

    Mazeppa, Act III: Prélude

    Conductor: Mihhail Gerts. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra.
    • Bru Zane.

  • Carl Reinecke

    Piano Concerto No1 in F sharp minor, Op 72: II. Adagio ma non troppo

    Performer: Simon Callaghan. Conductor: Modestas Pitrėnas. Orchestra: Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen.
    • Reinecke: Piano Concertos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

  • Ennio Morricone

    Gabriel's Oboe (The Mission)

    Conductor: Ennio Morricone.
    • The Mission: Music From The Motion Picture.
    • EMI Marketing.
    • 3.

  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Geistliche Tanzsuite (Sarabande and Courante)

    Music Arranger: Leopold Stokowski. Performer: Cynthia Millar. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Stokowski's Symphonic Baroque.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.

  • Agustín Barrios Mangoré

    Confesión

    • Sony Classical.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures at an Exhibition: The Old Castle

    Conductor: Andrew Litton. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Ruth Gipps

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

    • Gipps: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4, Song for Orchestra & Knight in Armour.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.

  • Catrin Finch

    Môr Arianrhod

    Performer: Catrin Finch.
    • Notes To Self.
    • bendigedig.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No. 12 in F Major, K. 332: II. Adagio

    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Arvo Pärt

    Spiegel im Spiegel (Arr. C.Thomas for Cello and Piano)

    • Universal Music Distribution France.

  • Chevalier Joseph Boulogne Saint-Georges

    Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A, Op. 7 No. 1 - Adagio

    • Forlane.

  • Elizabeth Poston

    Balulalow

    Performer: Stephen Farr. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Richard Pearce.

  • Tayla-Leigh Payne

    Meditation

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Parkinson.

  • Eydís Evensen

    Vault

    Composer: Ari Bragi Kárason.
    • XXIM Records.

  • Edward Elgar

    Quartet in E minor, Op 83

    Ensemble: Escher String Quartet.

  • April Chung

    Arrangement in Yellow and Gray

    • enjou.

  • Kodály Zoltán

    Adagio

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Josef Krips.
    • Urania Records.

  • Peter Gregson

    Pause

    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Notturno, for violin, harp and string orchestra

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Jane Berthe. Orchestra: Zürcher Kammerorchester.
    • DG.

  • Alexis Ffrench

    Chasing Yesterdays (Solo Piano Version)

    • Sony Classical.

  • Tony Banks

    Seven - A Suite for Orchestra: Black Down

    Conductor: Mike Dixon. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Banks: Seven.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Viola da gamba Sonata in G minor, BWV.1029 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Daniel Müller‐Schott. Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Bach: Viola da gamba Sonatas.
    • Orfeo.
    • 10.

  • Gerard Cousins

    With the Moon at my Desk

    • Prima Classic.

  • Joep Beving

    Incantation in B-Flat Minor

    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Lucy Walker

    There will come soft rains

    Ensemble: St Martin's Voices. Director: Andrew Earis.
    • Lucy Walker: Choral Works.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 11.

  • Somei Satoh

    Hikari - Light

    • Klarthe Records.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in C Major, Op. 76 No. 3 "Emperor": II. Poco adagio, canta

    • Hyperion.

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  • Tuesday17:00
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