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Start your morning right with beautiful harmonies

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 recharging, warming pieces from composers including Gabriel Faure, Florence Price, and Alice Mary Smith, and a chance to find your focus with mesmerising music for piano by Hania Rani. Sian spies some beautiful blooms while out to Take a Breath, and Professor Catherine Loveday explores whether we all have an inbuilt, dedicated capacity for music from birth.

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Music Played

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Johannes Moser. Conductor: Jakub Hrůša. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonia.
    • Pentatone.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Salammbo Suite (5th mvt, arr for chamber orchestra)

    Music Arranger: Fabrice Bollon. Conductor: Fabrice Bollon. Orchestra: The Lily’s Project.
    • Naxos.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Song without Words in F major, Op 2 (No 3 arr for cello & piano)

    Performer: Andrés Díaz. Performer: Samuel Sanders.
    • Sono Luminos.

  • Caroline Shaw

    The Children's Eye

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.

  • Hania Rani

    Time

    Performer: Hania Rani.
    • Gondwana Records.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Caligula, Op 52 (5th mvt, 'Ceésar a fermeé la paupieère')

    Choir: Balthasar‐Neumann‐Chor. Conductor: Ivor Bolton. Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra Basel.
    • Sony.

  • Christopher Tin

    Astronomy

    Performer: Anna Lapwood. Choir: the Assembly. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Dominic Ellis-Peckham.
    • Universal.

  • William Boyce

    Trio Sonata No 10 in E minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Theresa Caudle. Performer: Judy Tarling. Performer: Mark Caudle. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Conductor: Peter Holman.
    • Hyperion.

  • Pamela Harrison

    A Canterbury Tale (Anderida No 2)

    Performer: Hiroaki Takenouchi.

  • Ali Osman

    From the South

    Conductor: Jack Sheen. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

  • William Byrd

    Ave verum corpus

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Decca.

  • Nobuo Uematsu

    Where I Belong (Final Fantasy VIII)

    Performer: Benyamin Nuss.
    • Yellow Records.

  • Vítezslav Novák

    Moravian-Slovak Suite, Op 32 (1st mvt, 'In Church')

    Conductor: Marek Štilec. Orchestra: Janáčkova filharmonie Ostrava.
    • Naxos.

  • Jean Françaix

    Sérénade (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Thierry Fischer. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra.
    • Hyperion.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness (arranged for solo guitar)

    Performer: Sean Shibe. Music Arranger: Timothy Walker.
    • Linn.

  • Richard Wagner

    Symphony in C major (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Jun Märkl. Orchestra: MDR Sinfonieorchester.
    • Naxos.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    6 Romances, Op 38 (No 3, 'Daisies')

    Performer: Ruth Slenczynska.
    • Decca.

  • Joby Talbot

    Ink Dark Moon (1st mvt)

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Conductor: Ben Gernon. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.
    • Decca.

  • George Gershwin

    Boy What Love Has Done to Me / I've Got a Crush on You (arr for piano solo)

    Performer: André Previn.
    • DG.

  • Muzio Clementi

    Symphony in D, Op 18 No 2 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Matthias Bamert. Orchestra: London Mozart Players.
    • Chandos.

  • Kate Bush

    And Dream of Sheep (arr for string quartet)

    Performer: William Newell. Performer: Amy Tress. Performer: Stephen Upshaw. Performer: Stephanie Tress. Music Arranger: William Newell. Ensemble: Solem Quartet.
    • Orchid.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Adagio in G minor

    Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Warner.

  • Rebecca Dale

    Study I (Rêverie in London Rain)

    Performer: Rebecca Dale.
    • Signum.

  • Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Bologne

    Violin Concerto in A major, Op 7 No 1 (2nd mvt)

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

  • Alice Mary Smith

    Lover's Melancholy

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Gabriella Teychenné.

  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet No 2 in D major (3rd mvt, Nocturne)

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Music Arranger: Craig Leon. Conductor: Michael Stern. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Sony.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Lied ohne Worte, Op 109

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Melvyn Tan.
    • Sony.

  • John Brunning

    Romance No 1

    Performer: Xuefei Yang. Conductor: Clark Rundell. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Warner.

  • Gabriel Pierné

    Violin Sonata, Op 36 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Maria Milstein. Performer: Nathalia Milstein.
    • Mirare.

  • Michael Haydn

    Horn Concertino in D major MH134 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Přemysl Vojta. Director: Martin Petrák. Orchestra: Haydn Ensemble Prague.
    • Cavi Music.

  • Trad.

    Lamma Bada Yatathana

    Music Arranger: The Ayoub Sisters. Ensemble: The Ayoub Sisters.
    • The Ayoub Sisters.

  • Trad.

    Steal Away

    Music Arranger: David Blackwell. Choir: VOCES8.
    • East Props Music.

Broadcast

  • Today09:00
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