Lift your day with sparkling 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 beautiful and enriching melodies from Rachmaninov, Tanzil, and Mozart, this episode features a chance to Find Your Focus in music by Poppy Ackroyd inspired by an early morning walk. Sian goes for a walk herself to Take a Breath and spies a heron in full flight. Also, Professor Catherine Loveday explores whether musical training can improve children's capacity to control their own behaviour.
On air
Music Played
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NowAntonín Dvořák
Piano Quintet No 2 in A major, Op 81, B 155 (2nd mvt, 'Dumka')
Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin. Ensemble: Takács Quartet.- Hyperion.
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2 minutes agoAndré Mathieu
Concertino No 2, Op 13 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Alain Lefèvre. Performer: David Lefevre. Performer: Paul Archibald. Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.- Analekta.
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7 minutes agoGuillaume Dufay
Ave Maris Stella
Choir: Blue Heron. Conductor: Scott Metcalfe.- Blue Heron Renaissance Choir.
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12 minutes agoMarianna Bottini
Clarinet Concerto (Adagio)
Performer: Luigi Magistrelli. Performer: Claudia Bracco. Ensemble: Il Cenacolo della Chimera.- VDE GALLO.
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16 minutes agoThomas Tallis
If ye Love Me
Choir: ORA Singers. Conductor: Suzi Digby.- Harmonia Mundi.
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18 minutes agoAnton Rubinstein
Piano Concerto No 3 in G major, Op 45 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Joseph Banowetz. Conductor: Róbert Stankovský. Orchestra: Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra.- Marco Polo.
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25 minutes agoGustav Holst
A Song of the Night, Op 19, H 74
Performer: Tasmin Little. Conductor: Andrew Davis. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.- Chandos.
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33 minutes agoSergey Prokofiev
Symphony No 1, Op 25 (Intermezzo)
Conductor: James Gaffigan. Orchestra: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra.- Challenge.
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38 minutes agoMaria Szymanowska
Nocturne in B flat major (arr for cello & piano)
Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Performer: Julian Riem. Music Arranger: Julian Riem.- Sony.
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43 minutes agoGeorge Frideric Handel
Water Music, Suite No in F major (Air)
Conductor: Bernard Labadie. Orchestra: Les Violons du Roy.- ATMA.
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46 minutes agoAnna-Karin Klocker
Limu limu lima
Choir: Allmänna Sången. Conductor: Maria Goundorina.- Swedish Society.
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49 minutes agoMuzio Clementi
Symphony No 4 in D major, WoO 35 (3rd mvt)
Conductor: Ivor Bolton. Orchestra: Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg.- Sony.
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55 minutes agoFranz Schubert
Rosamunde (Entr'acte No 3)
Conductor: Laurence Equilbey. Orchestra: Insula Orchestra.- Warner.
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1 hour agoPoppy Ackroyd
Hanover Birds
Performer: Poppy Ackroyd.- The birdsong Project.
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1 hour agoJohn Mundy
De Lamentatione Jeremiae
Choir: Lay Clerks of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. Conductor: Timothy Byram-Wigfield.- Delphian.
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1 hour agoJoseph Bologne
6 Quartetto concertans, No 5 in G major (2nd mvt, 'Gratioso')
Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet.- Naxos.
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1 hour agoPyotr Tchaikovsky
6 Morceaux, Op 51, arr for cello & piano (No 5, 'Romance')
Performer: Andrés Díaz. Performer: Samuel Sanders.- Sono Luminous.
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1 hour agoRoderick Elms
De Profundis Concertino for Bass Clarinet and Orchestra (2nd mvt, Canzonetta)
Performer: Derek Hannigan. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.- Signum.
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1 hour agoCamille Saint‐Saëns
Carnival of the Animals, live from Lugano 2013 (Aquarium)
Ensemble: Martha Argerich.- Warner.
Broadcast
- Today09:00BBC Radio 3 Unwind
