Ultimate Calm with Olafur Arnalds

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Join Ólafur Arnalds for a journey into calm, explored through all forms of classical and ambient music.

Ultimate Calm: Ólafur Arnalds: Series 1: Cosy music for autumn feat. Hania Rani

Cosy music for autumn feat. Hania Rani

Ólafur Arnalds: Series 1

BBC Radio 3 - Ultimate Calm, Ólafur Arnalds: Series 1, Cosy music for autumn feat. Hania Rani

Ólafur Arnalds shares a cosy selection of seasonal sounds for autumn.

Ólafur Arnalds shares a cosy selection of seasonal sounds for autumn, with a safe haven from Polish pianist Hania Rani.

Join Icelandic composer and pianist Ólafur Arnalds on an hour-long musical journey into calmness with some appropriately seasonal sounds.

In this episode, Ólafur takes inspiration from the changing of the seasons and shares a selection of calming and cosy sounds inspired by autumn. He shares autumnal music from Tchaikovsky, Dorothy Ashby and Imogen Holst, selecting pieces that mark the seasonal changes, and reflects on what he loves about autumn in Iceland. 

Plus the Polish pianist Hania Rani transports us to her safe haven, the place she feels most calm, curled up in her attic listening to the rain on the roof. 

Produced by Katie Callin 
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds

Ultimate Calm: Ólafur Arnalds: Series 1

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Join Grammy-nominated artist and producer Ólafur Arnalds for a musical journey into calm.

Join Grammy-nominated artist and producer Ólafur Arnalds on a journey into calmness through a selection of peaceful music and reflections.

Escape with Icelandic composer and pianist Ólafur Arnalds on a sonic journey seeking that all-too elusive feeling of calm through contemporary, ambient and classical music. Every episode explores a theme from nature to cinema to sleep and features a special guest including Odesza, Jon Hopkins and Isobel Waller-Bridge who will transport listeners to the place they feel most calm - their own personal safe haven.

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