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Nature Week: Restorative music walking the King Charles III Coast Path

Calming classical music to set you up for the day ahead. Presented by broadcaster, author and counselling psychologist Dr Sian Williams from the King Charles III Coast Path.

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 from the King Charles III Coast Path.

Classical Unwind gets its walking boots on as Sian Williams and her dog Molly take the programme onto the King Charles III Coastal Path in East Sussex. Walking from Winchelsea towards Rye and Camber Sands, Sian explores how walking beside the sea can help lower stress, lift mood and clear a busy mind, while Professor Catherine Loveday reveals why an early morning walk can help reset the body clock as the seasons change.

Featuring beautiful, enriching melodies from Gerhswin, Mendelssohn and Grace Williams, and a chance to Find your Focus in music where pianist Olivia Belli reworks a Vivaldi classic.

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Music Played

  • Alice Mary Smith

    Andante for clarinet and orchestra

    Performer: Angela Malsbury. Conductor: Howard Shelley. Orchestra: London Mozart Players.
    • Chandos.

  • Miriam Hyde

    5 Solos for Flute and Piano (No 4, 'Marsh Birds')

    Performer: Megan Sterling. Performer: Kristian Chong.
    • Azure Sky.

  • Leoš Janáček

    On an Overgrown Path, Book I (A Blown-Away Leaf)

    Conductor: Gregory Rose. Orchestra: London Jupiter Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    By the Lone Sea Shore

    Conductor: Michael Waldron. Orchestra: London Choral Sinfonia.
    • Orchid.

  • York Bowen

    An Ambling Tune (The Way to Polden)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.

  • Grace Williams

    Sea Sketches (5th mvt, 'Calm Sea in Summer')

    Conductor: Malin Broman. Orchestra: Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra.
    • BIS.

  • Ludovico Einaudi

    Golden Butterflies (Seven Days Walking)

    Performer: Ludovico Einaudi.
    • Decca.

  • Arthur Bliss

    Caesar and Cleopatra (2nd mvt, 'The Sea')

    Conductor: Rumon Gamba. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Olivia Belli

    Winter (Vivaldi Variation)

    Performer: Olivia Belli.
    • XXIM.

  • Agnes Tyrrell

    8 Choruses, Op 7 (No 5, 'Sommerfrühe')

    Choir: Gewandhauschor Leipzig. Conductor: Gregor Meyer.
    • CPO.

  • William Sterndale Bennett

    Piano Concerto No 5 in F minor (2nd mvt, 'A Stroll Through the Meadows')

    Performer: Malcolm Binns. Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Lyrita.

  • Imant Raminsh

    Blow, Wind!

    Choir: Valsts Akadēmiskais koris "Latvija". Conductor: Māris Sirmais.

  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Prelude to Little Spring

    Performer: Pascal Rogé.
    • Octavia.

  • Percy Grainger

    Walking Tune

    Conductor: Richard Hickox. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Penelope Thwaites

    To the Hills

    Performer: Laurence Ungless. Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • SOMM.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Symphony No 3 in E minor (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Achim Fiedler. Orchestra: Lucerne Festival Strings.
    • Oehms.

  • Eunike Tanzil

    New Beginnings

    Orchestra: Studio Musicians.
    • Center Stage Records.

  • Dan Jones

    Walk from Henley (On Chesil Beach)

    Conductor: Dan Jones. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
    • Decca.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Rest

    Choir: Giovanni Gabrieli. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Winged Lion.

  • Florence Price

    Dainty Feet

    Performer: Michael Clark.
    • Navona.

  • Frederick Delius

    The Walk to the Paradise Garden

    Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • RLPO.

  • Redi Hasa

    The Silence of the Trail

    Performer: Redi Hasa.
    • Decca.

  • Alexis Ffrench

    Everything Changes... But All Remains

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench.
    • Sony.

  • Christen Holmes

    Summer Shower

    Choir: The Gesualdo Six. Conductor: Owain Park.
    • Hyperion.

  • Franz Liszt

    Orpheus, S 98

    Conductor: Martin Haselböck. Orchestra: Wiener Akademie.
    • Gramola.

  • George Gershwin

    Promenade [Walking the Dog]

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Sony.

  • Florian Christl

    Sand

    Performer: Florian Christl.
    • Sony.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Pastoral Symphony

    Conductor: Jaroslav Krček. Orchestra: Capella Istropolitana.
    • Naxos.

  • Ariel Ramírez

    Alfonsina y el Mar

    Performer: Gerald Garcia.
    • Naxos.

  • Frank Bridge

    2 Solos for Piano H 54 (1st mvt, 'A Sea Idyll')

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Sony.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dances, Series II (No 8 in A flat major)

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic.
    • Pentatone.

  • Trad.

    A Rosebud by my Early Walk

    Choir: Scottish Philharmonic Singers.
    • Lismor.

  • Adrian Sutton

    Violin Concerto (2nd mvt, 'Far Cliffs')

    Performer: Fenella Humphreys. Conductor: Michael Seal. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Charles Williams

    A Quiet Stroll

    Conductor: Ronald Corp. Orchestra: New London Orchestra.
    • Hyperion.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute and Harp Concerto in C major, K 299 (3rd mvt, Rondeau)

    Performer: Alberto Navarra. Performer: Claudia Lucia Lamanna. Conductor: Holly Hyun Choe. Orchestra: Odense Symfoniorkester.
    • Orchid.

  • Julius Harrison

    Troubadour Suite (3rd mvt, 'Song of Spring')

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.
    • Vocalion.

  • Stephen Paulus

    The Road Home

    Choir: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas.
    • Delphian.

Broadcast

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