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Refresh your day with soothing 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 emotive, calming melodies from composers including Haydn, Morricone, and Tailleferre, and a chance to Find your Focus in a piece inpired by a tree by Belle Chen. Sian spies a birds' nest while out to Take a Breath, and learns a lesson about patience. Plus, Professor Catherine Loveday explores how music can help us to connect to others.

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Music Played

  • Jules Massenet

    Méditation from Thaïs

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Conductor: Daniel Harding. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Decca.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    String Quartet No 17 in D major, arr for orchestra (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Michael Erxleben. Orchestra: Neues Berliner Kammerorchester.
    • Capriccio.

  • Jonathan Dove

    Seek Him That Maketh the Seven Stars

    Performer: Harrison Cole. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Rêverie

    Performer: Corinna Simon.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Charles Avison

    Concerto Grosso No 11 in G major (3rd mvt)

    Director: Roy Goodman. Ensemble: The Brandenburg Consort.
    • Hyperion.

  • Belle Chen

    Passages of Time

    Performer: Belle Chen.
    • Platoon.

  • Frederick Delius

    Daybreak (Florida Suite)

    Conductor: Bramwell Tovey. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.

  • Karen Tanaka

    Departure

    Orchestra: Brno Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Chester Music.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Ancient Airs & Dances, Suite No 3, P 172 (2nd mvt, 'Arie di corte')

    Conductor: Yutaka Sado. Orchestra: Tonkunstler-Orchester.
    • Tonkunstler Orchestra.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op 55 No 4 (arr for cello & piano)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Anna Polonsky. Music Arranger: Heinrich Grünfeld.
    • Decca.

  • William Grant Still

    Symphony No 2, 'Song of a New Race' (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra.
    • DG.

  • Ennio Morricone

    Sergio Leone Suite (Main Theme from 'Once Upon a Time in the West')

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Conductor: Ennio Morricone. Orchestra: Roma Sinfonietta.
    • Sony.

  • Rosalind Ellicott

    Piano Trio No 1 in G major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Trio Anima Mundi.
    • Divine Art.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Pavane, Op 50

    Conductor: Ivor Bolton. Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra Basel.
    • Sony.

  • Ernest Chausson

    Les Oiseaux Suite (arr for flute & harp)

    Performer: Suzanne Shulman. Performer: Erica Goodman.
    • Naxos.

  • Franz Biebl

    Ave Maria

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.

  • Benjamin Godard

    Jocelyn Suite No 1, Op 100 (2nd mvt, Entr'acte to Act I)

    Conductor: Martin Yates. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • Dutton Epoch.

  • Max Bruch

    Serenade for Violin and Orchestra, Op 75 (3rd mvt, 'Notturno')

    Performer: Jack Liebeck. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Hyperion.

  • Eric Coates

    By the Sleepy Lagoon

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • Naxos.

  • Jessica Curry

    Clouds and Starlight (Everybody's Gone to the Rapture)

    Choir: Metro Voices. Choir: London Voices. Conductor: James Morgan.
    • Sony.

  • Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev

    Concert Suite for Violin and Orchestra, Op 28 (4th mvt, 'Theme & Variations')

    Performer: Ilya Gringolts. Conductor: Ilan Volkov. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Hyperion.

  • Franz Schubert

    Trio for Piano, Violin and Violoncello No 1 in B flat major, D 898 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Trio Les Esprits.
    • Sony.

  • Jung Jae-il

    10.1

    Performer: Eun Hye Jung. Orchestra: Budapest Scoring Orchestra. Choir: Budapest Scoring Choir.
    • universal.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon in D major

    Conductor: Laurence Equilbey. Orchestra: Insula Orchestra.
    • Warner.

  • Pamela Harrison

    Drifting Away for Clarinet and Piano

    Performer: Robert Plane. Performer: Benjamin Frith.
    • Resonus.

  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    Legend Op 14

    Performer: Lorraine McAslan. Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Lyrita.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 54 in G major, Hob I:54 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Giovanni Antonini. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel.
    • Alpha.

  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Trio Sonata No 1 in F major (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Soloists of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • CLAVES.

Broadcast

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