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New Year, New Horizons: calm and uplifting classical music to start 2024

Embrace new beginnings with a reflective and uplifting selection of music to help you find calm and reflect upon the year ahead.

Embrace new beginnings with a reflective and uplifting selection of music to help you find calm and reflect upon the year ahead.

Featuring shimmering textures from Karen Tanaka, Richard Wagner and Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita, plus warm, positive harmonies by Augusta Holm猫s, Thomas Tallis and John Adams.

Produced by Steven Rajam
An Overcoat Media production for 成人论坛 Sounds.

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1 hour, 58 minutes

Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt, Op. 23: No. 13, Morning Mood

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Lyricist: Henrik Ibsen. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt; Piano Concerto; Symphony.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 8.
  • Karen Tanaka

    Water Dance III

    Performer: Signe Bakke.
    • Crystalline - Piano Music by Karen Tanaka.
    • 2L.
    • 4.
  • Pietro Mascagni

    Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo sinfonico

    Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Georges Pr锚tre. Lyricist: Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti. Lyricist: Guido Menasci.
    • Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 16.
  • Thomas Tallis

    If Ye Love Me

    Ensemble: Ex Cathedra. Director: Andrew Fletcher. Director: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • The Sound Corporation.
  • Philip Glass

    脡tudes: No. 2 (Reworked By Christian Badzura)

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson. Ensemble: Siggi String Quartet. Music Arranger: Christian Badzura.
    • Philip Glass: Piano Works.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 7.
  • Florence Price

    5 Folksongs in Counterpoint: No. 3, Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered, Vol. 2: Florence B. Price.
    • Azica Records.
    • 15.
  • Robert Schumann

    Liederkreis, Op. 39: No. 5. Mondnacht

    Performer: Daniel M眉ller鈥怱chott. Performer: Robert Kulek.
    • ORFEO International Music GmbH.
  • Richard Wagner

    Wesendonck-Lieder, WWV 91: V. Tr盲ume

    Performer: Alexandre Da Costa. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Halle. Ensemble: Utrecht String Quartet. Conductor: Josep Caball茅-Domenech.
    • Stradivarius At the Opera II - The Wagner Album.
    • OE Oficina Ediciones.
    • 4.
  • Luke Howard

    Dappled Light

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Ensemble: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • Howard: Dappled Light.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sheep May Safely Graze

    Performer: Leon Fleisher. Music Arranger: Egon Petri.
    • Two Hands.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • John Adams

    China Gates

    Performer: Jeroen van Veen.
    • Brilliant Classics Licensing BV.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, TH 30 "Path茅tique": II. Allegro con grazia

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos.4, 5 & 6 "Path茅tique".
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 10.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major, K. 361 "Gran Partita": III. Adagio

    Ensemble: German Wind Soloists.
    • Classical Chill.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Alexis Ffrench

    Where Worlds Collide

    • Evolution.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.
  • Eric Whitacre

    The Seal Lullaby

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer. Choir: World Choir for Peace. Lyricist: Rudyard Kipling.
    • Peaceful Choir - New Sound of Choral Music (360掳 / 8D Binaural Version).
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 15.
  • Lili Boulanger

    D'un jardin clair

    Performer: 脡mile Naoumoff.
    • Boulanger, Lili and Nadia: In Memoriam Lili Boulanger.
    • Marco-Polo.
    • 1.
  • Aaron Copland

    Clarinet Concerto: I. Slowly and Expressively

    Performer: David Singer. Orchestra: A Far Cry Orchestra.
    • Clarinet Concerto: I. Slowly and Expressively.
    • Naxos.
    • 04.
  • Seckou Keita

    Ceffylau

    Composer: Catrin Finch.
    • Astar Artes Recordings Limited.
  • Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Cello Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 49: II. Largo, molto espressivo

    Performer: Torleif Thed茅en. Orchestra: Hannover Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Eije Oue.
    • CPO.
  • Johannes Ockeghem

    Deo gratias

    Choir: Huelgas Ensemble. Lyricist: Anon.. Conductor: Paul Van Nevel.
    • Utopia Triumphans: The Great Polyphony of the Renaissance.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • Arvo P盲rt

    Spiegel im Spiegel

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Simon Mulligan.
    • This Must Be The Place.
    • Indigo Film Srl.
    • 5.
  • Augusta Holm猫s

    Ludus pro Patria: La Nuit et l'Amour: Interlude de l'ode symphonique

    Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland鈥怭falz. Conductor: Samuel Friedmann.
    • Augusta Holm猫s: Orchestral Works.
    • Marco Polo.
    • 04.
  • Philip Stopford

    Do Not Be Afraid

    Choir: Ecclesium Choir. Director: Philip Stopford.
    • Priory Records Ltd.