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Soothing classical music to uncloud your mind

Lift the fog with this selection of soothing classical music.

Relax into this mix and let the fog slowly lift with this selection of soothing classical music.

This mix features Baroque orchestral excellence from George Friedrich Handel and Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de Saint-Georges, mindful piano solos from Elena Kats-Chernin and Suwon Yim and atmospheric choral works by Benjamin Britten and Morten Lauridsen.

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Music Played

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    L'elisir d'amore: Una furtiva lagrima (Arr. For Horn and Orchestra)

    Performer: Felix Klieser. Orchestra: I Solisti di Pavia.
    • Berlin Classics.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Organum Light

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Dobrinka Tabakova.
    • Tabakova: Sun Triptych.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 6.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Cecilia McDowall

    Such Splendor

    Performer: Livvie Beynon. Conductor: Ralph Allwood. Ensemble: The Rodolfus Choir.
    • Such Splendor.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Petite Suite de Concert, Op. 77: III. Un sonnet d'amour

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Parnther.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Arthur Bliss

    Pastoral for Clarinet and Piano

    Performer: Anastasia Schmidlin. Performer: Denis Zhdanov.
    • XX UK - 20th Century British Chamber Music for Clarinet and Piano.
    • Prospero Classical.
    • 9.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11: II. Romance. Larghetto

    Performer: Maria João Pires. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Lascia ch'io piangia (Rinaldo)

    Performer: Felix Klieser. Ensemble: CHAARTS.
    • Berlin Classics.

  • Edward MacDowell

    Romanze in E Minor, Op. 35

    Performer: Peter Dixon. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • MacDowell: Orchestral Works Vol. 2.
    • Chandos Records Ltd.
    • 6.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O Euchari

    Ensemble: The King’s Singers.
    • Head Space: Candlelight.
    • Signum Records.
    • 9.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ave Maria, CG 89 (After Prelude in C Major, BWV 846/I) [Arr. for Flute & Guitar]

    Performer: Cocomi. Performer: Alexandra Whittingham.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.

  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Nina non dir di no

    Performer: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Orchestra: Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal.
    • Le Chevalier de Saint-George - Portrait.
    • Château de Versailles Spectacles.
    • 8.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Lyric Pieces, Op. 47: VII. Elegie (Arr. for Flute and Harp)

    Performer: Deborah Sipkai. Performer: János Bálint.
    • Dankeschön.
    • Delta Music Entertainment.
    • 5.

  • Ernest Bloch

    Suite for Viola and Orchestra, B. 41 (Arr. for Cello and Orchestra ): III. Lento

    Performer: Parry Karp. Conductor: Kenneth Woods. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
    • Suite for Viola and Orchestra, B. 41 (Arr. for Cello and Orchestra by Adolph Bal.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • Florence Price

    Adoration (Arr. for String Quartet)

    Music Arranger: Samuel Araya. Ensemble: Isidore String Quartet.
    • Adorations.
    • Delos.
    • 10.

  • Erland Cooper

    Music for Growing Flowers (Nocturne) - Edit

    Performer: Erland Cooper. Performer: Daniel Pioro. Performer: Clare O'Connell. Performer: Josephine Stephenson. Performer: Olivia Jageurs.
    • Mercury.

  • Robert Schumann

    Kinderszenen, Op.15: VII. Träumerei

    Performer: Arcadi Volodos.
    • Kinderszenen, Op.15/VII. Träumerei.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, B. 178 "From the New World": II. Largo

    Conductor: Marin Alsop. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
    • Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 & Symphonic Variations (Live).
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Nadia Boulanger

    3 Pieces for Cello and Piano, INB 11: No. 1 in E-Flat Minor

    Performer: Andrei Korobeinikov. Performer: Johannes Moser.
    • The French Album.
    • Platoon.
    • 13.

  • Taylor Scott Davis

    Requiem: V. Idyll

    Lyricist: Siegfried Sassoon. Choir: VOCES8 Foundation Choir. Orchestra: VOCES8 Foundation Orchestra. Conductor: Barnaby Smith.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Anthony Willis

    So kiss me and be damned.

    Performer: Anthony Willis.
    • Wuthering Heights (Original Motion Picture Score).
    • Milan Records.
    • 13.

  • Henry Purcell

    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 / Act III: "When I Am Laid in Earth" Dido's Lament

    Performer: Camille Thomas. Lyricist: Nahum Tate. Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic. Conductor: Mathieu Herzog.
    • Voice Of Hope.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 3.

  • George Walker

    Sonata for Cello and PIano: II. Sostenuto

    Performer: Conor Hanick. Performer: Seth Parker Woods.
    • From Ordinary Things.
    • Platoon.
    • 3.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Job, a Masque for Dancing, Scene 9: Epilogue

    Conductor: Andrew Davis. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.
    • Walton : Belshazzar's Feast & Vaughan Williams : Job - Apex.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 21.

  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Tuesday Suit

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska.
    • Kats-Chernin: Unsent Love Letters, Meditations On Erik Satie.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 18.

  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    Sussex Landscape: II. Lento e molto tranquillo

    Conductor: John Andrews. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Concerto & Orchestral Works.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 6.

  • Morten Lauridsen

    O Magnum Mysterium

    Conductor: Ben Parry. Ensemble: National Youth Choir.
    • O Magnum Mysterium.
    • NYCGB.
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, No. 2 'Moonlight': I. Adagio sostenuto

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 9.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Symphony No. 8 in D Major, MWV N 8: II. Adagio

    Orchestra: Irish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jörg Widmann.
    • Pentatone.

  • Svante Söderqvist

    Home Again

    Performer: Tuulikki Bartosik. Performer: Adam Forkelid. Performer: Calle Rasmusson.
    • Prophone Records.

  • Andrzej Panufnik

    Love Song (Arr. for cello, harp & strings)

    Performer: Božidar Vukotić. Conductor: Alexander Walker. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Love Song (Arr. for cello, harp & strings by Andrzej Panufnik).
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 1.

  • George Gershwin

    Porgy and Bess: Bess, You Is My Woman Now (Arr. for Violin & Piano)

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Performer: André Previn. Lyricist: Ira Gershwin. Lyricist: DuBose Heyward. Lyricist: Dorothy Heyward.
    • Anne-Sophie Mutter: My London.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 7.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Spartacus - Ballet Suite - Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia

    Conductor: Stanley Black. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Khatchaturian: Ballet Suites From Spartacus & Masquerade.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 2.

  • Suwon Yim

    Wishes and Hopes

    Performer: Suwon Yim.
    • infin et al..

  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets, Op. 32: II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace

    Conductor: Daniel Harding. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • The Planets.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 2.

  • Benjamin Britten

    A Hymn to the Virgin

    Lyricist: Anon.. Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Sacred and Profane.
    • CORO.
    • 1.

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