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Guide your day forwards with peaceful classical 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 soaring, emotional melodies from composers including Fanny Mendelssohn, Max Richter, and Ennio Morricone, and an opportunity to Find Your Focus in the music of Edin Kaso. Sian Takes a Breath and muses on the positive effects of pacing yourself like a dog, and Professor Catherine Loveday explores how far back the history of music psychology goes.

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Music Played

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op 25 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Arabella Steinbacher. Conductor: Lawrence Foster. Orchestra: The Gulbenkian Orchestra.
    • Pentatone.

  • Emilie Mayer

    Symphony No 3 in C major, 'Military' (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend. Orchestra: NDR Radiophilarmonie.
    • CPO.

  • Alfredo Le Pera

    El Dia Que me Quieras

    Performer: Guillem Pérez-Quer. Music Arranger: Guillem Pérez-Quer.
    • Prima Classic.

  • Timothy Roberts

    Idyll for Strings

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Heritage.

  • Edin Kaso

    Kumo Ascending

    Performer: Edin Kaso.
    • Edin Kaso Music.

  • Adrian Sutton

    War Horse Suite (4th mvt, 'Emilie's Theme')

    Conductor: Michael Seal. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Luigi Cherubini

    Symphony in D major (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo. Conductor: Piero Bellugi.
    • Naxos.

  • Joseph Canteloube

    Chants d'Auvergne (Brezairola)

    Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber. Performer: John Lenehan.
    • DECCA.

  • Hildegard of Bingen

    O ignis spiritus Paracliti (sequentia de spiritu sancto)

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Richard Marlow.
    • Sony.

  • Albert Ketèlbey

    Bells Across the Meadows

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

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 4 in E minor, Op 98 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Ilan Volkov. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

  • Anthony Hopkins

    Tara

    Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Decca.

  • Maria Luisa Priolli

    Arabesco

    Performer: Luciana Soares.
    • Centaur.

  • Donna McKevitt

    Renascence

    Choir: VOCES8. Choir: Apollo5. Conductor: Paul Smith.
    • Voces8.

  • Emil Sjögren

    Portrait of Donnie, my little dog

    Performer: Lars Roos.
    • Prophone.

  • Max Richter

    On the Nature of Daylight

    Performer: Max Richter. Performer: Louisa Fuller. Performer: Natalia Bonner. Performer: John Metcalfe. Performer: Philip Sheppard. Performer: Chris Worsey.
    • DG.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No 1 in C minor, WAB 101 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies. Orchestra: MDR Sinfonieorchester.
    • Genuin.

  • Steve Rosenberg

    Valentina's Song

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Steve Rosenberg.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon

    Conductor: Klaus Arp. Orchestra: Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • DENON.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op 11 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • DG.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Oratorium (XI, 'Trauerchor')

    Choir: Dortmund University Chamber Choir. Conductor: Willi Gundlach.
    • Thorofon.

  • Zenobia Powell Perry

    Nocturne

    Performer: Deanne Tucker.
    • Cambria.

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Notturno in G

    Performer: Lydia Dubrovskaya. Ensemble: Diogenes Quartett.
    • CPO.

  • Ennio Morricone

    Main Theme (Cinema Paradiso)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome.
    • Warner.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 35 in D, K385, 'Haffner' (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Bernhard Forck. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Pentatone.

  • Gregorian Chant

    Ave maris stella

    Choir: Chanticleer.
    • Warner.

  • Giovanni Battista Viotti

    Concerto No 17 in D minor, WI 17 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Guido Rimonda. Orchestra: Camerata Ducale.
    • Decca.

  • Lavinia Meijer

    Open Window (Part III)

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • Sony.

  • Kurt Schwertsik

    Nachtmusiken Op 104, 'Wienerlied'

    Conductor: H. K. Gruber. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Leopold Koželuh

    Symphony in D (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice.
    • NAXOS.

  • Trad.

    Amazing Grace

    Music Arranger: Ēriks Ešenvalds. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Toru Takemitsu

    Face of Another (Waltz)

    Conductor: Marin Alsop. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
    • NAXOS.

Broadcast

  • Wednesday 09:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind