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Press pause and reset with serene classical music

A selection of soothing classical sounds to help you feel at peace with the world around you.

A selection of soothing classical sounds from across the centuries to help you take stock, reset and feel at peace with the world around you. Featuring much-loved melodies by Debussy, Wagner and Grieg alongside gorgeous contemporary sounds from Mélanie Laurent, Anne Boyd and Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Produced by Steven Rajam

An Overcoat Media Production for 91ȱ Sounds

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1 hour, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Georgs Pelēcis

    Concertino bianco: 1. Con intenerimento

    Conductor: Johannes Fritzsch. Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska.
    • Into Silence: Pärt _ Vasks _ Górecki _ Pelēcis.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ave verum corpus

    Performer: Ex Cathedra. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Ex Cathedra.
  • Pauline Viardot

    Six Morceaux: Berceuse

    Performer: Laura Kobayashi.
    • Feminissimo!.
    • Albany Records.
    • 12.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 102: II. Andante

    Performer: Denis Matsuev.
    • Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Mariinsky.
    • 6.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Cello Sonata: II Andante sostenuto

    Performer: Rebecca Knight.
    • Ambache Recordings / NAXO.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite, Op. 40: 2. Sarabande, Andante

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Sibelius: Karelia Suite; Swan of Tuonela/Grieg: Holberg Suite.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto

    Opus

    Performer: Gina Alice Redlinger.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    From the Bohemian Forest, Op. 68: V. Silent Woods

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Music Arranger: Lothar Niefind. Music Arranger: Gunter Ribke.
    • Dvorák: From the Bohemian Forest, Op. 68, B. 133: V. Silent Woods (Arr. Niefind.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Florence Price

    A Day in the Life of a Washerwoman: Evening Shade

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Florence Price Piano Music.
    • Guild Music.
    • 14.
  • Frank Bridge

    4 Short Pieces for Violin & Piano: No. 2, Spring Song

    Performer: Antony Ingham.
    • Naxos.
  • Claude Debussy

    La Fille aux cheveux de lin

    Music Arranger: Lavinia Meijer. Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • Voyage.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.
  • Richard Wagner

    Wesendonck-Lieder, WWV 91: V. Träume

    Conductor: Josep Caballé-Domenech. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Halle. Performer: Alexandre Da Costa.
    • Stradivarius At the Opera II - The Wagner Album.
    • OE Oficina Ediciones.
    • 4.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Sonata No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 4: III. Larghetto

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Chopin: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 - 3, Mazurkas, Op. 17 & Études.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.
  • Anne Boyd

    As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams

    Performer: Ars Nova Copenhagen.
    • Ars Nova Records.
  • Mélanie Laurent

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    • En t'attendant.
    • ٳDzéܱ.
    • 1.
  • Leos Janáček

    Suite for String Orchestra: V. Adagio

    Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
  • Ludovico Einaudi

    Due tramonti

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • Passaggio.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 11.
  • Vaja Azarashvili

    Days Go By (Arr. A. Suleiman for Cello & Piano)

    Performer: Alexander Suleiman.
    • Vaja Azarashvili: Days Go By.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Love's Labour's Lost: Soliloquy 1: So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not

    Conductor: Nicholas Collon. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4.
  • Trad.

    Romance

    Music Arranger: John Williams. Conductor: William Goodchild. Orchestra: String Orchestra.
    • The Ultimate Guitar Collection.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Notturno

    Performer: Polina Osetinskaya.
    • Quartz Music Ltd.
  • Mieczysław Weinberg

    Aria, Op. 9

    Performer: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • William Grant Still

    Vignettes: II. Carmela (Arr. for violin and piano)

    Performer: Clifford Panton Jr..
    • Centaur.
  • Florence Maude Ewart

    Prelude No. 3

    Performer: Jeanell Carrigan.
    • Wirripang.
  • Erland Cooper

    Music For Growing Flowers: Pt. 5

    • Music For Growing Flowers.
    • Mercury Classics.
    • 5.
  • Mel Bonis

    Suite en trio Op. 59: II. Pastorale

    Performer: Tatjana Ruhland.
    • SWR Klassik.
  • Akira Nakada

    12 Songs for Guitar: No. 7. A Song of Early Spring

    Performer: Shin-ichi Fukuda & Duardo Fernandez.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
  • Rachel Portman

    Much Loved

    • BFD.
  • Howard Skempton

    Quavers

    Performer: Duncan Honeybourne.
    • Grand Piano.