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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 Nils Frahm, Olivia Belli and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Plus, a chance to Press Pause with meditation teacher Maude Hirst.

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Music Played

  • Johannes Brahms

    Contemplation (Wie Melodien zieht es mir, Op 105 No 1)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Deustche Grammophon.

  • Joel Christian Goffin

    Waterfelt

    Performer: Joel Christian Goffin.
    • single.
    • Joel Christian Goffin.
    • 1.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Sinfonietta (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille. Conductor: Alexandre Bloch.
    • Poulenc: La voix humaine.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 24.

  • Erland Cooper

    Movement 5 - part 2 (instrumental)

    Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • Movement 5 - Pt. 2 - Instrumental.
    • Mercury Classics.
    • 1.

  • Taylor Scott Davis

    Stardust

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Nightfall.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4.

  • Dorothy Howell

    2 Pieces for muted strings - No 1

    Orchestra: 91热爆 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Teresa Riveiro B枚hm.

  • Nabil Benabdeljalil

    Nocturne No. 4

    Performer: Rebeca Omordia.
    • SOMM.

  • Peter Gregson

    Somnia

    Performer: Peter Gregson.
    • Somnia.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 4 in A major, Op 90 - Italian (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Philharmonie der Nationen. Conductor: Justus Frantz.

  • Rita Strohl

    Trio in G minor (2nd mvt: Prayer)

    Performer: Rapha毛lle Moreau. Performer: Edgar Moreau. Performer: Tanguy de Williencourt.
    • Rita Strohl: Volume 2, Musique de chambre.
    • La Bo卯te 脿 P茅pites.
    • 2.

  • Tony Ann

    HOPE

    Performer: Tony Ann.
    • EMOTIONS (Deluxe).
    • Universal Music Division Decca Records France.
    • 5.

  • Louis Spohr

    Symphonie concertante for violin, harp and orchestra in G major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Mar铆a Due帽as. Performer: Volker Kempf. Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • Beethoven and Beyond.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.

  • Gustav Holst

    Neptune (The Planets)

    Choir: 91热爆 Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.

  • Alexandra Str茅liski

    The Hills

    Performer: Alexandra Str茅liski.
    • N茅o-Romance (Extended Version).
    • XXIM Records.
    • 8.

  • Patrik Almkvisth

    The day she left

    Ensemble: Luchs.
    • Immersive Live Sessions.
    • Nettwerk Music Group.
    • 1.

  • Victoria Yagling

    Aria (Suite for cello & string orchestra)

    Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Orchestra: Lucerne Festival Strings. Conductor: Daniel Dodds.
    • Femmes.
    • Sony.
    • 12.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 - Variation 7 (arr. Sitkovetsky for cello and violin)

    Music Arranger: Dmitry Sitkovetsky. Performer: Arlen Hlusko. Performer: Lun Li.
    • [in]verse.
    • Bright Shiny Things.
    • 25.

  • Agust铆n Barrios Mangor茅

    Una limosnita por el amor de Dios

    Performer: Thibaut Garcia.
    • El Bohemio.
    • Warner Music Group.
    • 5.

  • Jasdeep Singh Degun

    Veer

    • Anomaly.
    • Real World Records.
    • 2.

  • Goldmund

    Sometimes

    Ensemble: Goldmund.
    • Sometimes.
    • Western Vinyl.
    • 2.

  • Sam Rapley

    Ease

    Orchestra: 91热爆 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Palmer.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 43 in E flat major, 'Mercury' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: The Hanover Band. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 42, 43 "Mercury" & 44 "Trauer".
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.

  • BPMoore & annasara

    A Lifetime Rolls By - annasara rework

    • Rhodium.

  • Adolphus Hailstork

    God be merciful

    Choir: 91热爆 Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.

  • Piotr Wiese

    Changes

    Performer: Piotr Wiese.
    • Changes.
    • 1631 Recordings.
    • 2.

  • Franz Schubert

    Fantasy in C major, D 934 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Performer: Martin Helmchen.
    • Schubert Complete Works for Violin and Piano, Vol. 2.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 5.

  • Isobel Waller-Bridge

    An Exercise In Restraint (Until You Go)

    Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.
    • VIII.
    • Mercury Classics.
    • 6.

  • Jim Perkins

    The North Wind - Daigo Hanada re-work

    Performer: Daigo Hanada. Music Arranger: Daigo Hanada.
    • Bigo and Twigetti.

  • Caroline Shaw

    The Mona Lisa

    Performer: John Patitucci. Performer: S艒 Percussion. Ensemble: Attacca Quartet. Choir: Roomful of Teeth.
    • Leonardo da Vinci: A Film by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, & David McMahon (Original S.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 28.

  • Don Macdonald

    When the Earth Stands Still

    Choir: Lyyra.
    • When the Earth Stands Still.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 1.

  • Aphex Twin

    aisatsana [102]

    • Syro.
    • Warp Records.
    • 12.

  • Leokadiya Kashperova

    Piano Trio (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Gould Piano Trio.

  • Tamsin Elliott

    Nightsong

    Performer: Tamsin Elliott.
    • Music for Hospitals (volume i).

  • Jonas Gewald

    Ruh

    Performer: Jonas Gewald.
    • Ruh.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Oliver Vibrans

    Restless Muscle

    Orchestra: 91热爆 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gabriella Teychenn茅.

  • Haydn Wood

    Piano Concerto in D minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Hamish Milne. Orchestra: 91热爆 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Holbrooke/Wood: The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 23: Milne/91热爆 SSO/Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.
    • 24.

  • Alex Komlew

    VANITAS

    Orchestra: Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg. Conductor: Alex Komlew.
    • Made of Music Records.

  • Stephan Moccio

    Le Jardin de Monsieur Monet

    Performer: Stephan Moccio.
    • Lionheart.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 8.

  • Florence Price

    Ethiopia's Shadow in America, Part 2: His resignation and faith

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Leslie Suganandarajah.
    • Florence Price: Piano Concerto in One Movement; Symphony No. 1 in E Minor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 8.

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