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Start your evening with a calming classical playlist

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, Finzi and Mahler. 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 leaving something unfinished can help you wind down at the end of the day.

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Music Played

  • Frank Bridge

    Four Pieces for Piano and Cello

    Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Performer: José Gallardo.

  • Matthew Coleridge

    And there was light

    Performer: Maxim Calver. Orchestra: Southern Sinfonia. Conductor: Rupert Gough.
    • CONVIVIUM RECORDS.

  • Luke Faulkner

    The Wanderer

    Performer: Luke Faulkner. Ensemble: Alkyona Quartet.
    • DODO 2026.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    Sacred Heart (Ubi Caritas III)

    Choir: VOCES8. Performer: Ben Hancox. Performer: Hannah Dawson. Performer: Simone van der Giessen. Performer: Matthew Sharp.
    • Decca.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quintet in G minor, K.516 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Philip Dukes. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Mozart: String Quintets; Nash Ensemble, Philip Dukes.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

  • Poppy Ackroyd

    Feathers

    • The Birds.
    • One Little Independent Records.
    • 1.

  • Henry Eccles

    Sonata Quinta in E Minor: III. Largo

    • The Mad Lover.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 24.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 9

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Donald Runnicles.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Die tote Stadt, Act I: Marietta's Lied

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • Decca.

  • Akio Yashiro

    Prelude No 18 in F minor - Lento (from 24 Preludes)

    Performer: Mao Fujita.
    • 72 Preludes.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 42.

  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    Suite for Violin and Piano (2nd mvmt, Cavatina)

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Zhu Wang.
    • Roots (Deluxe Edition).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 20.

  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Rockabye, my Son

    • Rockabye, my Son.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • Belle Chen

    Half A Moment

    • Ravel In The Forest.
    • Platoon.
    • 6.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Trio in A major (BWV 1025): Sarabande

    • ...per la viola da gamba....
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 10.

  • Ida Moberg

    Sunrise - Suite for Orchestra (4th mvt, Stillness)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Johannes Gustavsson.
    • Aulin, Moberg, Andrée: Orchestral Works.
    • Nilento.
    • 8.

  • Simone Iannarelli

    El último café juntos

    Conductor: Gustavo Rivero Weber. Orchestra: Orquesta Juvenil Universitaria Eduardo Mata.
    • Easy Classical.
    • Naxos Special Projects.
    • 105.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19 (Orch. Elliott)

    Conductor: Bill Elliott. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.
    • Mademoiselle in New York.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

  • Joanna Gill

    19 Sono perseguitato dalle acque - Joanna Gill

    • LOVE ILLUMINATES.
    • Regent Records.

  • Lara Somogyi

    mirabel

    Composer: Cyrus Reynolds.
    • mirabel.
    • Mercury Classics.
    • 1.

  • Benjamin Ruby

    Muqataea

    Composer: Francesca Guccione.
    • Whales Records.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Sonata in G minor, Op. 19: Andante

    • Rachmaninov for Violin and Piano.
    • Signum Records.
    • 3.

  • Thomas Jean Mohamed Rabeh Horeczko

    Loango

    Performer: Braths. Performer: Esther Abrami.
    • Ephemeral Memory.
    • Masterworks/Sony Music.
    • 2.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16

    Performer: Javier Perianes. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Jean‐Michel Blais

    muses

    • mirador.
    • Universal Music Operations Limited.
    • 01.

  • Isaac Albéniz

    Evocación (Iberia Book 1)

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Lang Lang - Live in Vienna.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Joep Beving

    The One as Two

    Composer: Maarten Vos.
    • The One As Two.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Marcin Przybyłowicz

    Priscilla's Song from The Witcher

    • Eternal Fantasy.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 8.

  • Gerald Finzi

    5 Bagatelles, Op 23

    Performer: Mark Simpson. Performer: Richard Uttley.

  • Jóhann Jóhannsson

    Flight from the City (Orphee)

    Performer: Jóhann Jóhannsson. Performer: Clarice Jensen. Performer: Ben Russell. Performer: Tarn Travers. Performer: Yuki Numata Resnick.
    • DG.

  • Florence Price

    On A Quiet Lake

    • Florence Price Piano Discoveries.
    • Flipside Music.
    • 7.

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