This is the most beautiful thing you'll hear all day
What beautiful classical music comes to mind when you see this field of tall grasses at sunset?
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Classical MPR gets to the heart of the matter with music that brings you healing, balance and beauty. In fact, it might be the most beautiful thing you'll hear all day.
Join Classical MPR host John Birge every weekday at 9 a.m. in May for music specially chosen to make a place for space and grace in your day. It's part of MPR's Call to Mind initiative for Mental Health Month.
Play more than an hour's worth of beautiful music now above, or listen online at 9 a.m. each weekday below.
Playlist
Gabriel Faure: Requiem - In Paradisum/Pie Jesu
Lisa Beckley, Nicholas Gedge, Oxford Schola Cantorum, Oxford Camerata, Colm Carey, Jeremy Summerly
Erik Satie: Gymnopedie Nos. 1 and 3
Klara Kormendi
Engelbert Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel - Evening Prayer
Axel Kohler, Vienna Boys Choir, soloist, Cologne Radio Orchestra, Helmut Froschauer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Serenade No. 10 "Gran Partita" - Adagio
German Wind Soloists, Richard Edlinger
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5 - Adagietto
London Symphony Orchestra, James DePreist
Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Oboe and Violin - Adagio
Emilia Csanky, Bela Banfalvi, Budapest Strings
Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Two Violins - Largo
Takako Nishizaki, Alexander Jablokov, Capella Istropolitana, Oliver Dohnanyi
Gabriel Faure: Pavane
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Keith Clark
Jules Massenet: Thais - Meditation
Janos Selmeczi, Camerata Transylvanica, Gyorgy Selmeczi
George Frideric Handel: Xerxes - Largo
Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Helmut Muller-Bruhl
Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi - O Mio Babbino Caro
Miriam Gauci, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Rahbari
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 - 2nd movement
Stefan Vladar, Capella Istropolitana, Barry Wordsworth
Peter Tchaikovsky: Andante Cantabile
New Haydn Quartet
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 208 - Sheep May Safely Graze
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hayman
Franz Schubert: An Die Musik (To Music)
Markus Eiche, Jens Fuhr
Gabriel Faure: Pelleas and Melisande - Sicilienne
RTE National Symphony Orchestra, John Georgiadis
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Oboe Concerto - 2nd movement
Martin Gabriel, Vienna Mozart Academy, Johannes Wildner
Leo Delibes: Lakme - Flower Duet
Adriana Kohutkova, Denisa Slepkovska, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Wildner
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