Ultimate Calm with Ólafur Arnalds

Ultimate Calm with Olafur Arnalds

Original version

BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

Ultimate Calm

Mixes

Music

Music: Classical

Music: Easy Listening, Soundtracks & Musicals

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

Ultimate Calm: Ólafur Arnalds: Series 1: Blissful body-related music feat. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Blissful body-related music feat. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Ólafur Arnalds: Series 1

BBC Radio 3 - Ultimate Calm, Ólafur Arnalds: Series 1, Blissful body-related music feat. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Take a deep breath and tune in to the sound of your body with Ólafur Arnalds.

Take a deep breath with Ólafur Arnalds and a selection of soothing music inspired by the body. Plus, composer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith transports us to her ‘Safe Haven’.

Take a deep breath and join Icelandic composer and pianist Ólafur Arnalds for another hour-long musical journey into calm. 

This week, Ólafur looks inwards with a selection of music inspired by the body. He reflects on the importance of focusing on your breath and the sound of your own heartbeat in order to ground yourself, and shares music from Julianna Barwick, Ben Lukas Boysen and Richard Reed Parry. 

Plus the American composer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith transports us to her Safe Haven, the place where she feels the most calm - inside herself.  

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.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Ultimate Calm

Ólafur Arnalds: Series 1

Blissful body-related music feat. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Genres

Brand

Series

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3