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De-stress your morning with gentle 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 moving and enriching melodies from Dvorak, Sohy, and Puccini, and a chance to Find Your Focus for the morning via the music of Peter Sandberg. Sian explores the range of memories that can be triggered by our sense of smell while out to Take a Breath, and Professor Catherine Loveday explains how we can all tell what is going to come next when we listen to music and how that impacts our emotional response to what we hear.

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Music Played

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No 1 in B flat major, Op 38, 'Spring' (2nd mvt)

    Music Arranger: Gustav Mahler. Conductor: Marin Alsop. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Naxos.

  • Johann Peter Salomon

    Romance for Violin and Strings in D major

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Zürcher Kammerorchester.
    • DG.

  • Henriette Renié

    Andante religioso

    Orchestra: Ensemble Des Equilibres.
    • Klarthe.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Ave Maria

    Choir: VocalEssence Ensemble Singers. Conductor: Philip Brunelle.
    • Clarion.

  • John Barry

    Returning Home

    Performer: Emma Johnson. Conductor: Julian Reynolds. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Universal.

  • Peter Sandberg

    Molly

    Performer: Peter Sandberg.
    • Parlophone.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Symphony No 5 in B flat major, MWV N5 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Thomas Fey. Orchestra: Heidelberger Sinfoniker.
    • Hanssler.

  • Rebecca Dale

    My North

    Ensemble: SANSARA. Conductor: Tom Herring.
    • SANSARA.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Trittico botticelliano (2nd mvt, 'L'adorazione dei Magi')

    Conductor: John Neschling. Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège.
    • BIS.

  • Jeanne Landry

    Trois poemes (2nd mvt, 'Fruitful Night, at the Gates of Ecstasy')

    Performer: Frédéric Lambert. Performer: Chloe Dumoulin.
    • Leaf.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Wand of Youth (Music to a Child's Play), Suite No 1, Op 1a (3rd mvt, Minuet)

    Conductor: Mark Elder. Orchestra: Halle.
    • Halle.

  • Kristina Arakelyan

    Meditations II

    Performer: Kristina Arakelyan.
    • Platoon.

  • Eric Coates

    The Jester at the Wedding (2nd mvt, Minuet - 'The Dance of the Pages')

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

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Darest Thou Now, O Soul

    Choir: BBC Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.

  • Wenzel Thomas Matiegka

    Sonate progressive for guitar in G major, Op 17 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Dragoș Ilie.
    • Naxos.

  • William Grant Still

    Serenade for orchestra

    Conductor: Avlana Eisenberg. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • Naxos.

  • Vicente Lusitano

    Ave spes nostra, Dei genitrix

    Ensemble: The Marian Consort.
    • Linn.

  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F major, D 803 (5th mvt, Menuetto)

    Ensemble: Scharoun Ensemble.
    • Pentatone.

  • Frank Bridge

    Lament, H 117

    Conductor: Richard Hickox. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
    • Chandos.

  • Florence Price

    Rhapsody in E flat major

    Performer: Michael Clark.
    • Navona.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Nine Irish Folksongs (Silence is in Our Festal Halls)

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

  • Franz Liszt

    Die Rose (after Louis Spohr)

    Performer: Geoffrey Tozer.
    • Chandos.

  • Will Todd

    Remembrance

    Performer: James Sherlock. Choir: Tenebrae. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Signum.

  • Leo Brouwer

    Suite No 2 (No 3, Andantino)

    Performer: Ricardo Gallén.
    • Eudora.

  • Frederick Delius

    Orchestral Suite No 1, RT VI/6 (4th mvt, Duo)

    Conductor: John Andrews. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.
    • EM.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Adagetto, SC 51

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.

  • Charlotte Sohy

    Trio, Op 24 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Nikola Nikolov. Performer: Xavier Phillips. Performer: Célia Oneto Bensaid.
    • La Boite a Pepites.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in F major, K 44

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • Sony.

  • Maggie Kaposamweo

    Abide with Me

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

  • Marianna Martines

    Keyboard Concerto in A major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Idith Meshulam Korman. Conductor: Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey. Orchestra: Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Signum.

  • Harrison Birtwistle

    Berceuse de Jeanne

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Pentatone.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Album for the Young (No 1, 'Morning Prayer')

    Conductor: Peter Kovats. Orchestra: Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra.
    • Hungaroton.

  • Karl Jenkins

    The Healer, a Cantata for St Luke's (The Shepherd)

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • DG.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Pelleas et Melisande Suite, Op 80 (1st mvt, Prelude)

    Conductor: Jean-Luc Tingaud. Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra Ireland.
    • Naxos.

  • Richard Strauss

    The Happy Workshop' Sonatine No 2 for Wind, TrV 291 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: London Winds.
    • Hyperion.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No 6 in D major, Op 60, B 112 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Jaime Martín. Orchestra: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
    • MSO.

  • Radiohead

    Pyramid Song

    Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • DECCA.

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