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Find your flow with a relaxing classical soundtrack

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 charming, gentle classical melodies from Coates, Chaminade, and Poulenc. There's a chance to Find Your Focus with the music of Olivia Belli, and Professor Catherine Loveday explores why we like certain genres of music. Plus Sian takes a breath and finds a particular sound helps to reconnect her with nature and immediately relax her from the stresses, hustle and bustle of daily life.

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Music Played

  • Joe Hisaishi

    Mother Sea

    Performer: Little Carol.
    • Studio Ghibli.

  • Trad.

    An Irish Blessing

    Music Arranger: Anna Lapwood. Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • Sony.

  • Josef Myslivecek

    String Quartet in F major, Op 3 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Doležal Quartet.
    • Supraphon.

  • Christopher Gunning

    The Hollow (Agatha Christie's Poirot)

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

  • William Byrd

    Crowned with flowers

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

  • Alexej Gerassimez

    Flower in the Wind

    Performer: Alexej Gerassimez. Conductor: Gordon Hamilton. Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Berlin Classics.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Serenade for Strings in C major, Op 48 (2nd mvt, Waltz)

    Performer: Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt. Orchestra: Metamorphosen Berlin.
    • Sony.

  • Olivia Belli

    Respiro 3

    Performer: Olivia Belli.
    • XXIM Records.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Much Ado About Nothing Suite, Op 11 (No 4, Intermezzo/Garden Scene)

    Performer: Philippe Quint. Conductor: Carlos Miguel Prieto. Orchestra: Mineria Symphony Orchestra.
    • Naxos.

  • Yu‐Peng Chen

    Daughter of the Sea and the Moon

    Conductor: Robert Ziegler. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • DG.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 73 (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • DG.

  • Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson

    Nú hverfur sól í haf ( Now the sun disappears into the sea)

    Choir: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis. Conductor: Hordur Askelsson.
    • BIS.

  • Stéphane Grappelli

    Les valseuses (Rolls)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Guillaume Bellom.
    • Erato.

  • Kim André Arnesen

    Even When He Is Silent

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Decca.

  • Sammy Fain

    12 Songs for Guitar (No 7, 'Secret Love')

    Performer: Shin-Ichi Fukuda. Music Arranger: Toru Takemitsu.
    • Naxos.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Rondo for Cello & Orchestra

    Performer: Raphaël Jouan. Conductor: David Reiland. Orchestra: Orchestre National de Metz Grand Est.
    • La Dolce Volta.

  • Eric Coates

    The Jester at the Wedding (4th mvt, 'The Dance of the Orange Blossoms')

    Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Hayato Sumino

    Raindrop Postlude (after Raindrop Prelude, Op 28, No 15 by Chopin)

    Performer: Hayato Sumino.
    • Sony.

  • York Bowen

    Flute Sonata, Op 120 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Adam Walker. Performer: Huw Watkins.
    • Chandos.

  • Sophie Hutchings

    A Sense of Place

    Performer: Sophie Hutchings.
    • Mercury.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Samuel Coleridge Taylor

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, London. Conductor: Joseph Fort.
    • Delphian.

  • Edward MacDowell

    Piano Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 15 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Xiayin Wang. Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No 4, KV 218 (3rd mvt, Rondo)

    Performer: Ray Chen. Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach. Orchestra: Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival Orchester.
    • Sony.

  • Charles Aznavour

    She (arr for guitar & string ensemble)

    Performer: Alexandra Whittingham. Music Arranger: Stephen Goss. Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.
    • Decca.

  • Catrin Finch

    13

    Performer: Catrin Finch.
    • bendigedig.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Barcarolle, Op 7

    Performer: Joanne Polk.
    • Steinway & Sons.

  • Valborg Aulin

    Parisian Scenes (Ballroom Scene)

    Conductor: Johannes Gustavsson. Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
    • Nilento.

  • Anton Stepanovich Arensky

    Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 32 (3rd mvt, Elegia)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Erato.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude No 24 in B minor, BWV 869 (arr for accordion)

    Performer: Mie Miki.
    • BIS.

  • Yves Duteil

    Au parc Monceau

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Music Arranger: Dimitri Soudoplatoff.
    • Erato.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Vissi d'arte (Tosca: Act 2)

    Conductor: Barry Wordsworth. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.
    • Decca.

  • Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Bologne

    Symphony in G major, Op 11, No 1 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Michael Halász. Orchestra: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice.
    • Naxos.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Trio for Piano, Violin, and Cello in D minor (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Chagall Trio.
    • Meridian.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Stabat Mater (4th mvt, 'Quae moerebaat')

    Choir: BBC Singers. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Chandos.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No 5 in B flat major, D 485 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe. Orchestra: Antwerp Symphony Orchestra.
    • PHI.

  • Sally Potter

    Slow Gone (The Roads Not Taken OST)

    • Masterworks.

Broadcast

  • Monday09:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind