Find escape and recharge with calming piano and strings
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 Rachel Portman, Schubert and Florence Price. We Press Pause with meditation coach Maude Hirst and reveal some essential Wind Down Wisdom on how something as simple as a hot cup of tea can help you de-stress from the pressures of your day.
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Gabriel Faur茅
Song without words, Op 17 No 3
Performer: Antoine Pr茅at.- Naive.
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Takashi Yoshimatsu
Dream Coloured Mobile II, Op.58a
Performer: Joe Houghton. Performer: Kate Wilson. Ensemble: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Sachio Fujioka.- Chandos.
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Alexandra Hamilton鈥怉yres
Sept Douleurs
Ensemble: Her Ensemble.- Play Echoes.
- LEITER Verlag GmbH & Co. KG.
- 3.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Lasst mich allein, Op 82 No 1 arr. Lenehan
Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Anna Polonsky. Music Arranger: John Lenehan.- Dvorak.
- Decca.
- 4.
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Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.61 (Nocturne)
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.- Mendelssohn In Birmingham Vol. 4.
- Chandos.
- 8.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor, Op 10 (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.- Hyperion.
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Dustin O鈥橦alloran
Cymatic Love Spiral
Composer: Bryan Senti. Performer: Dustin O鈥橦alloran. Performer: Bryan Senti. Orchestra: Budapest Art Orchestra.- Cymatic Love Spiral (Single Edit).
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 1.
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Duke Ellington
Lotus Blossom
- Duke Ellington: Piano Works.
- Dynamic.
- 10.
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Rebecca Dale
There Will Come
Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Collins.- Night Seasons.
- Signum Classics.
- 101.
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Florian Christl
Budapest
Performer: Florian Christl.- Budapest.
- Sony Classical/Sony Music.
- 1.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata in C major, K. 330 2nd movement (Andante cantabile)
Performer: Eric Lu. -
Pietro Mascagni
Intermezzo (Cavalleria rusticana)
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.- Verismo.
- Onyx Classics.
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Marin Marais
La Guitare (suite in G major)
Performer: Fran莽ois Joubert-Caillet. Ensemble: L鈥橝ch茅ron.- Marais: Troisi猫me livre de pi猫ces de viole.
- Ricercar.
- 14.
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Sumino Hayato
Nocturne 2 - After Dawn
Performer: Sumino Hayato.- Nocturne II - After Dawn.
- Sony Classical.
- 1.
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Ros Gilman
Dies Irae
Performer: Ros Gilman.- Dies Irae.
- Guiro Music Ltd.
- 1.
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Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau
The Arts and the Hours (from Les Boreades)
Performer: Lavinia Meijer.- Summer EP.
- Sony.
- 3.
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Thom Robson
Remembering
Performer: Natalia Tsupryk. Performer: Fraser Bowles. Performer: Rory Dempsey. Performer: Thom Robson.- Thom Robson.
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Sophia Jani
The Dark And The Light And Everything In Between
Ensemble: Kontai Ensemble.- Music As A Mirror.
- Neue Meister.
- 1.
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Jozef Nowakowski
Romance (Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 17)
Performer: Lena Neudauer. Performer: Katarzyna Budnik-Ga艂膮zka. Performer: Marcin Zdunik. Performer: Janusz Widzyk. Performer: Nelson Goerner.- NIFF.
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Sarah Frances Jenkins
Music and Meditation
Orchestra: 成人论坛 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Palmer. -
Franz Schubert
Symphony No 5 in B flat major, D 485 (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: 成人论坛 Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena. -
Jim Perkins
Between the sea and the sky
Performer: Jim Perkins.- Bigo and Twigetti.
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脫lafur Arnalds
saman
Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson. Ensemble: Jess Gillam Ensemble.- saman (Arr. Lawson for Saxophone & Ensemble).
- Decca.
- 1.
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Carlos Simon
Light Everlasting
Performer: Carlos Simon.- Requiem for the Enslaved.
- Decca.
- 18.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and fugue No 8 in E flat minor, BWV 853
Performer: Alim Beisembayev. -
Richard D. James
#20 Lichen
Ensemble: Brendan Eder Ensemble.- Brendan Eder Ensemble.
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Hildur Gu冒nad贸ttir
Folk faer andlit
Music Arranger: Peter Stanley Martin. Music Arranger: Peter Stanley Martin. Singer: Anna Semple. Choir: Sansara. Choir: Sansara. Ensemble: United Strings of Europe. Ensemble: United Strings of Europe. Conductor: Tom Herring. Conductor: Tom Herring.- in the midst.
- Platoon.
- 1.
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Hilgrove Kenrick
Fragments No.4, Slightly
Performer: Hilgrove Kenrick. -
Olivia Belli
Alma Venus
Performer: Olivia Belli. Performer: John Metcalfe.- Alma Venus.
- XXIM Records.
- 1.
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Alessandro Marcello
Adagio from Oboe concerto in D minor (transcribed for trumpet & orchestra)
Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: Pinnock's Players. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.- Vivaldi: Violin Concerto Op. 3 No. 9, RV 230: II. Larghetto.
- Warner Classics.
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Rachel Portman
One Day - Piano Suite
Performer: Rachel Portman.- Sony.
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Kristjan J盲rvi
Aurora
Performer: David Nebel. Orchestra: Baltic Sea Philharmonic. Conductor: Kristjan J盲rvi.- Nordic Escapes.
- Modern Recordings.
- 4.
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Jennifer Lucy Cook
For you I will be an island
Choir: The Cantorum Choir. Director: Steve Durtschi.- Cantorum Chamber Choir.
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Florence Price
Summer Moon
Music Arranger: William Newell. Ensemble: Solem Quartet.- The Four Quarters.
- Orchid Classics.
- 10.
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Christian Badzura
Lunar
Performer: Bruce Liu.- Lunar.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Wil Bolton
Floating in the Air
Composer: Wilson Trouv茅.- Escape.
- 1631 Recordings.
- 3.
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John Foulds
Kashmiri Boat Song
Orchestra: 成人论坛 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.- Foulds - Volume 3.
- Dutton.
- 004.
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