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Mindful Mix: A Winter Wander

Christmas Music Christmas Chill

A selection of wintry classical music to listen to and soothe your soul as you walk in nature.

Wrap up warm, and get a breath of fresh air, with a selection of classical music to listen to and soothe your soul as you walk in nature this wintertime. Featuring glistening piano textures, slow-moving strings and serene contemporary works that mirror frosted landscapes and crisp winter air - perfect for walking, wandering and quiet reflection.
With music by Rachel Portman, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Eric Whitacre, and more.
For more Mindful Mixes and calming classical music, listen to Radio 3 Unwind on BBC Sounds or search "Mindful Mix".
Produced by James C Taylor
An Overcoat Media production for BBC Sounds. MM

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  • Max Richter

    Winter 2 - 2012

    Performer: Max Richter.
    • Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons.
    • Universal Music Operations Ltd.
    • 12.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    The Rose II

    Performer: Ola Gjeilo. Performer: Max Ruisi. Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.
    • Winter Songs.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 15.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

    Lyricist: Robert Frost. Ensemble: VOCES8. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Whitacre: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Cantabile in B Flat

    Performer: Anatol Ugorski.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Sir George Dyson

    Woodland Suite: III. Moon-Fairy

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos Records Limited.

  • Johan Svendsen

    Norwegian Folk Song

    Orchestra: Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ari Rasilainen.
    • Rustle of Spring.
    • Fazer Records/Finlandia.
    • 4.

  • Rachel Portman

    Snow Story (from "Smoke")

    Performer: Rachel Portman. Performer: Raphaela Gromes.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.

  • Dan Jones

    Chloe

    Performer: Esther Yoo. Conductor: Dan Jones. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
    • Sur la plage de Chesil (Bande originale du film).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 26.

  • Undine Smith Moore

    We shall walk through the valley

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.

  • Eric Whitacre

    The River Cam

    Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber. Conductor: Eric Whitacre. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Water Night.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 9.

  • Ēriks Ešenvalds

    Stars

    Lyricist: Sara Teasdale. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Lux.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 7.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sheep May Safely Graze

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

  • Edward Elgar

    Sospiri Op.70

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Elgar: The Longed-for Light.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 3.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    Winter Light

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Ensemble: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • Gjeilo: Winter Light (Version for Saxophone & Ensemble).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon

    Orchestra: BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: William Boughton.
    • Nimbus Records.

  • Amy Beach

    The Hermit thrush at eve Op.92 no.1

    Performer: Christopher O’Riley.
    • Delos.

  • Piero Piccioni

    Amore mio aiutami

    Performer: Piero Piccioni.
    • Bacci Bros Records.

  • Thomas James White

    Momentary Pause - Solo Piano Version

    Performer: Thomas James White.

  • Philip Herbert

    Elegy (In Memoriam Stephen Lawrence)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Parnther.
    • NMC Recordings.

  • Ivo Antognini

    Come to Me

    Lyricist: Christina Rossetti. Conductor: Stephen Layton. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge.
    • Ivo Antognini: Come to Me in the Silence of the Night - Choral Works.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Laurie Christman

    Rolling Fields

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Ziegler.
    • Navona.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    Across The Vast, Eternal Sky

    Performer: Ola Gjeilo. Lyricist: Charles Anthony Silvestri. Choir: Choir of Royal Holloway. Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.
    • Winter Songs.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Violin Concerto in G Major, Op. 2 No. 1: II. Largo

    Performer: Fumika Mohri. Performer: Michael Halász. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic.
    • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Violin Concertos, Opp. 2 and 7.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Pastorale. Allegretto

    Performer: Andrew West. Performer: Emily Beynon.
    • L'Album des Six: The Complete Works of "Les Six" for Flute & Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.

  • George Butterworth

    The Banks of Green Willow

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Grant Llewellyn.
    • Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow; A Shropshire Lad/ /McGunn: The Land of t.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • Augusta Holmès

    La nuit et l'amour Variation

    Performer: Sophie Pacini. Performer: Eldbjørg Hemsing. Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Music Arranger: Jan-Peter Klöpfel.
    • La nuit et l'amour.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    6 Melodies, Op. 4 - 6 melodies, Op. 5: Andante soave

    Performer: Béatrice Rauchs.
    • Mendelssohn-Hensel: Piano Sonata in G Minor / 6 Character Pieces.
    • BIS.
    • 17.

  • Florence Price

    Adoration

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Zürcher Kammerorchester.
    • America.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 14.

  • Ólafur Arnalds

    For Now I Am Winter

    Composer: Arnór Dan. Lyricist: Ólafur Arnalds. Lyricist: Arnór Dan. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Winter.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • John Rutter

    5 Meditations for Orchestra: No. 4, Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace

    Conductor: John Rutter. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata.
    • Classical Tranquillity.
    • Collegium.
    • 5.

  • Mattia Vlad Morleo

    As days grows shorter

    Performer: Mattia Vlad Morleo.
    • The quiet beauty of familiar places.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 1, Op. 13 "Winter Daydreams": II. Adagio canatbile man no tanto

    Conductor: Kurt Masur. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 6, Piano Concertos Nos. 1 - 3 & Famous Works.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 2.

  • George Fenton

    Narwhals

    Performer: George Fenton. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.
    • Frozen Planet (Soundtrack from the TV series).
    • Silva Screen Records.
    • 10.

  • Richard Strauss

    Violin Sonata, Op. 18: II. Improvisation. Andante cantabile

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Guillaume Bellom.
    • R. Strauss: Violin Sonata, Op. 18: II. Improvisation. Andante cantabile.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Erik Satie

    Gymnopédie No. 1

    Performer: Klára Körmendi.
    • Largo II: A Special 2 ½ Hour Collection of Piano Classics.
    • Celestial Harmonies.
    • 24.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 26: II. Poco adagio

    Performer: Katarzyna Budnik-Gałązka. Performer: Krystian Zimerman. Performer: Maria Nowak. Performer: Yuya Okamoto.
    • Brahms: Piano Quartets Nos. 2 & 3.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 06.

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