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Set the tone for your morning with soothing melodies

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 exquisite, soaring melodies from composers including Ravel, Florence Price, and Schubert, this episode also features a chance to Find Your Focus with Poppy Ackroyd's Flutter. Sian Takes a Breath outside and finds that there is no such thing as silence, and Professor Catherine Loveday explores the tendency to create a narrative when we listen to wordless music.

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Music Played

  • Charles Hubert Parry

    The Birds of Aristophanes (5th mvt, Intermezzo)

    Conductor: Neeme Järvi. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
    • Chandos.

  • John Rutter

    Be Thou My Vision

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia.
    • Collegium.

  • Jeanne Bernard

    Mélancolie en barque

    Performer: Héloïse Luzzati. Performer: Vanessa Wagner.
    • La Boîte à Pépites.

  • Johann Baptist Vanhal

    Symphony in G minor, Bryan g1 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Ivan Repušić. Orchestra: Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • CPO.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne No 1 in B flat minor, Op 9

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Robert Fuchs

    Serenade No 1 in D major, Op 9 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Anima Musicæ Chamber Orchestra.
    • Hungaroton.

  • Poppy Ackroyd

    Flutter

    Performer: Poppy Ackcroyd.
    • One Little Independent Records.

  • Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 26 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Bomsori. Conductor: Jakub Hrůša. Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.
    • DG.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Tempest Suite, Op 1 (Banquet Dance)

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

  • Francisco Tárrega

    Lagrima

    Performer: Pablo Sáinz-Villegas.
    • Sony.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in A, KV 386

    Performer: Ariel Lanyi. Conductor: Howard Griffiths. Orchestra: Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg.
    • Alpha.

  • Franz Schubert

    Sanctus Variation (after Deutsche Messe: No 5, 'Zum Sanctus')

    Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Ensemble: Goldmund Quartet.
    • Sony.

  • Florence Price

    Southern Sketches

    Performer: Michael Clark.
    • Navona.

  • Becky McGlade

    The Oak

    Performer: Sophie Haynes. Ensemble: Gesualdo Six.
    • Oxford University Press Music.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 5 in E minor, Op 64 (3rd mvt, Valse)

    Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • LSO Live.

  • Hikaru Shirosu

    Energy Flow

    Performer: Hikaru Shirosu.
    • Shirosu Records.

  • Rahul Gohil

    An English Life (XIV, 'Remembering New Road')

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • ExoPAC Recordings.

  • Frederick Delius

    Romance for Cello & Piano, RT VIII/5

    Performer: Gerald Peregrine. Performer: Antony Ingham.
    • Naxos.

  • Paul Simon

    The Sound of Silence

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson. Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.
    • DECCA.

  • Leroy Anderson

    The Golden Years

    Conductor: Leonard Slatkin. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.
    • Naxos.

  • Chad Lawson

    room enough

    Performer: Chad Lawson.
    • Decca.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95, 'From the New World' (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel. Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic.
    • DG.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony No. 3 in G Minor, Op. 36 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: European Soloists, Luxembourg. Conductor: Christoph König.
    • Naxos.

  • Olivia Belli

    Puccini Vissi d'Arte Rework

    Performer: Olivia Belli.
    • XXIM Records.

  • Joe Hisaishi

    Ashitaka and San (Princess Mononoke)

    Performer: Floraleda Sacchi.
    • Amadeus Arte.

  • Carl Reinecke

    Flute Sonata in E minor, 'Undine', Op 167 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jeehee Han. Performer: Lang Lang.
    • DG.

  • Jessica Curry

    Finding the Pattern (Everybody's Gone to the Rapture)

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • Sony.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in G major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Seong‐Jin Cho. Conductor: Andris Nelsons. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra.
    • DG.

  • Barnaby Taylor

    Mountains (Wild China OST)

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Ensemble: UK Chinese Ensemble.
    • Parlophone UK.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    5 Pieces for two violins and piano (No 1, Prelude)

    Performer: Kian Soltani. Performer: Pablo Ferrández. Performer: Julien Quentin. Music Arranger: Levon Atovmyan.
    • DG.

  • Max Reger

    Violin Concerto in A, Op 101 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Benjamin Schmid. Conductor: Hannu Lintu. Orchestra: Tampere Filharmonia.
    • Ondine.

  • Carl Stamitz

    Concerto No 1 for Cello and Orchestra (2nd mvt, Romance)

    Performer: Klaus‐Peter Hahn. Orchestra: Kurpfalz Chamber Orchestra Ludwighafen-Mannheim.
    • Basilica Music.

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