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Discover evening calm with classical music

Niall Breslin brings you calming classical music to help you release the stresses of the day, recharge and prepare to rest.

Three hours of calming classical music to help you release the stresses of the day, recharge and prepare to rest - presented by Irish musician and mindfulness expert Niall Breslin.

This episode features a rich blend of music from the likes of Eric Whitacre, Anoushka Shankar and Vaughan Williams. Plus, a chance to Press Pause with meditation teacher Michael James Wong, and some essential Wind Down Wisdom from science podcaster Caroline Steel on how sometimes it's helpful to give yourself a hug.

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Music Played

  • Robert Schumann

    Langsam (5 Pieces in the folk style, Op 102 No 2)

    Performer: Midori. Performer: Özgür Aydin.
    • Schumann: Violin Concerto.
    • Pentatone.
    • 5.

  • Carl Vine

    Harbour Reverie (version for string quartet)

    Ensemble: Goldner String Quartet.
    • Vine: Harbour Reverie (Version for String Quartet).
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 3 in F major, Op 90 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.

  • Rui Fujishiro

    You'll Never Know

    Performer: Rui Fujishiro.
    • Pale Notes.
    • sou.
    • 8.

  • 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.

  • Alban Claudin

    Of Love

    Performer: Alban Claudin.
    • Of Love.
    • Masterworks.
    • 1.

  • Edward Elgar

    May Song

    Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • British Composers - Elgar, Stanford & Parry.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.

  • Sophia Jani

    Cadenza for violin & piano

    Performer: Clarissa Bevilacqua. Performer: Martina Consonni.
    • Mozartiana.
    • Berlin Classics.
    • 8.

  • Tobias Hume

    The First Part of Ayres: No. 1, Captain Humes Pavin

    Performer: Miguel Bonal.
    • From Silence.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 1.

  • María Luisa Sepúlveda

    El Afilador (Dos Trozos, No 1)

    Performer: Antonio Oyarzabal.
    • El fin del silencio.
    • Pixaudio.
    • 4.

  • Claude Debussy

    Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Péter Eötvös.

  • Francisco Garro

    In principio erat verbum

    Choir: Cupertinos. Conductor: Luís Toscano.
    • Garro: Missa O quam pulchra es & Cantate Domino.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude in F minor, BWV 881

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • Bach: Prelude in F Minor, BWV 881.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Solveig's Song (Peer Gynt Suite No 2, Op 55)

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk.
    • Grieg: Orchestral Music (Peer Gynt Suite).
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.

  • Midori Hirano

    In Colours

    Performer: Midori Hirano.
    • OTONOMA.
    • Thrill Jockey.
    • 3.

  • Giuseppe Tartini

    Violin Concerto in A major, D 96 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Chouchane Siranossian. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Director: Andrea Marcon.
    • Alpha.

  • Cecilia Tyrrell

    Expand Your Creativity

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

  • Adrián Berenguer

    Caresses

    Performer: Adrián Berenguer.
    • Caresses.
    • The Other Songs.
    • 1.

  • Krzysztof Penderecki

    3 Pieces in Old Style: No. 1, Aria

    Orchestra: Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Antoni Wit.
    • Penderecki: Sinfoniettas; Oboe Capriccio.
    • Naxos.
    • 001.

  • Stanley Myers

    Cavatina

    Performer: Göran Söllscher. Music Arranger: John Williams.
    • Cavatina.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Svante Söderqvist

    Home Again

    Performer: Svante Söderqvist. Performer: Tuulikki Bartosik. Performer: Adam Forkelid. Performer: Calle Rasmusson.
    • Like in the Movies.
    • Prophone Records.
    • 108.

  • Belle Chen

    Meditation for the Healing Heart

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Palmer.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Piano Concerto in C major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Ashley Wass. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.

  • Anoushka Shankar

    We Return to Love

    Performer: Alam Khan. Performer: Sarathy Korwar.
    • LEITER.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Notturno for violin, harp and strings

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Jane Berthe. Orchestra: Zürcher Kammerorchester.
    • Daniel Hope - Belle Epoque.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Roger Eno

    Tributary

    Composer: Erik Satie. Performer: Roger Eno.
    • Tributary (Satie Rework).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sarabande from Cello Suite No 1 in G major (Bach: The Cello Suites re-imagined)

    Performer: Peter Gregson. Performer: Richard Harwood. Performer: Reinaud Ford. Performer: Tim Lowe. Performer: Ben Chappell. Performer: Katherine Jenkinson. Music Arranger: Peter Gregson.
    • Bach: The Cello Suites - Recomposed by Peter Gregson.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.

  • Alanna Crouch

    When rain falls

    Composer: Freya Arde. Performer: Alanna Crouch. Performer: Freya Arde.
    • cloud collecting x Echoes Blue Music.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No 2 in C major, Op 61 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.

  • Amanda Röntgen-Maier

    Violin sonata in B minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Fanny Fheodoroff. Performer: Camille Lemonnier.
    • Adoration.
    • Fanny Fheodoroff.
    • 13.

  • Vince Pope

    Fountainhead for Strings

    Orchestra: London Contemporary Orchestra. Conductor: Hugh Brunt.
    • Passages Home.
    • Manners McDade.
    • 5.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Fur Elise (Bagatelle in A minor, WoO 59)

    Performer: Alfredo Perl.
    • Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2.
    • Audite.

  • Eric Whitacre

    The Pacific has no Memory

    Performer: Anne Akiko Meyers. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • AVIE.

  • Alex Patterson

    Meditation

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: David Hill.

  • Drum & Lace

    Gardenia

    • semi songs EP.
    • EverybodyHz Records.
    • 3.

  • Kris Bowers

    Curlingdown Slow

    Performer: Kris Bowers.
    • Eagle Rock, March 21st.
    • et al. music.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in D major, K 205 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: José‐Luis García.
    • Mozart: Divertimento in D Major, K. 205: III. Adagio.
    • Nimbus Records.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Tuesday17:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind