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Elis James chooses soothing classical tracks to calm your mind

Step away from the busy world as Elis James guides you through a selection of serene classical sounds and soothing soundscapes to calm your mind and soul.

Step away from the busy world as Elis James guides you through a selection of serene classical sounds and soothing soundscapes to calm your mind and soul, as part of the BBC’s Mental Well-Being Season.

Featuring blissful and chilled-out melodies by Germaine Tailleferre, JS Bach, Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita, Nathaniel Dett and others.

Produced by Steven Rajam
An Overcoat Media Production for BBC Sounds, MM

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1 hour, 58 minutes

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Music Played

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon and Gigue in D Major: Canon

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Sarabande.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 15.

  • Earl Wild

    7 Virtuoso Etudes After Gershwin: No. 4, Embraceable You

    Performer: Martin James Bartlett.
    • Rhapsody - Wild: 7 Virtuoso Etudes After Gershwin: No. 4, Embraceable You.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Claude Debussy

    Petite suite, L. 65: I. En bateau

    Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Québec. Music Arranger: Henri Büsser. Conductor: Yoav Talmi.
    • Debussy: Orchestrations by Caplet, Ansermet, Ravel, Stokowski & Busser.
    • ATMA Classique.
    • 17.

  • Dario Marianelli

    A Letter From Prison

    • Paddington 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 7.

  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Piano Étude No. 37 in G Major

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • BIS.

  • Seckou Keita

    Ceffylau

    Composer: Catrin Finch.
    • Astar Artes Recordings Limited.

  • Edvard Grieg

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

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Grieg: A Classical Morning.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 153.

  • William Grant Still

    3 Visions: II. Summerland

    Performer: Mark Boozer.
    • Naxos.

  • Howard Skempton

    Kettle's yard canon

    Performer: Andrew Sparling. Performer: Nancy Ruffer.
    • Huddersfield Contemporary Records.

  • Anna Clyne

    DANCE: I. when you're broken open

    Performer: Inbal Segev. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Anna Clyne: DANCE - Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 1.

  • George Gershwin

    Three Preludes: II. Andante con moto e poco rubato in C Sharp Minor

    Performer: Frank Braley.
    • Gershwin: Preludes (3).
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 25.

  • Piero Piccioni

    Amore mio aiutami

    • Bacci Bros Records.

  • Franz Schubert

    Sonate Pour Arpeggione et Piano en la Mineur, D. 821: III. Adagio

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Cerys Hafana

    Nant Yr Arian

    • Edyf.
    • (Not On Label).

  • Dora Pejačević

    Blumenleben: 2. Veilchen

    Performer: Nataša Veljković.
    • CPO.

  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet No. 2 in D Major: III. Notturno. Andante

    Ensemble: I Musici de Montréal. Conductor: Yuli Turovsky.
    • Chandos Records.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Magnolia, Pt. 2: 2, Mammy

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • Navona.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Concerto pour flute et piano: III. Nocturne

    Conductor: Nicole Paiement. Orchestra: UC Santa Cruz Orchestra.
    • La Musique de Germaine Tailleferre Vol. II.
    • Helicon Records.
    • 13.

  • Florence Price

    Negro Folksongs in Counterpoint: No. 2, Somebody's Knockin' At Yo Do'

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered, Vol. 2: Florence B. Price.
    • Azica Records.
    • 6.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sheep May Safely Graze

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

  • Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Violin Concerto, Op. 48: II. Andante cantabile

    Performer: Lydia Mordkovitch. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chandos.

  • Thomas Adès

    Arcadiana, Op. 12: VI. O Albion

    Ensemble: Signum Quartet.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.

  • Claude Debussy

    Bruyères, L. 123

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • Voyage.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 12.

  • György Ligeti

    Sonatina for Piano 4 Hands: II. Andante

    Performer: Irina Kataeva. Performer: Pierre‐Laurent Aimard.
    • Sony.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in E-Flat Major, K. 563: II. Adagio

    Ensemble: Ssens Trio.
    • Mozart: Divertimento K. 563 / Preludes and Fugues K. 404a.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 2.

  • Georgs Pelēcis

    Concertino bianco: 1. Con intenerimento

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

  • Jasmine Choi

    Winter Jasmine for Flute and Piano

    Composer: Hugh Sung.
    • Jasmine Choi.