Ultimate Calm

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Ólafur Arnalds: Series 2

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

Ultimate Calm: Ólafur Arnalds: Series 2: Music from the heart feat. JFDR

Music from the heart feat. JFDR

BBC Radio 3 - Ultimate Calm, Ólafur Arnalds: Series 2, Music from the heart feat. JFDR

Ólafur Arnalds on musical matters of the heart with a soothing selection of love songs.

Ólafur Arnalds explores musical matters of the heart with soothing love-inspired selections. Icelandic singer-songwriter JFDR shares the track that brings her ultimate calm.

Join Icelandic composer and pianist Ólafur Arnalds for another unique musical adventure to seek out that all too elusive feeling of calm. 

For this episode, Ólafur shares music from the heart with a selection of soothing songs related to love. Music is often the way that people express their love for others, whether romantic, platonic or familial, when we don’t have the words to describe it. Ólafur shares heart-shaped tracks from Sandrayati, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou and Kjartan Sveinsson, and reflects on his own relationship with music and the matters of the heart - “every song that I’ve ever made has been for love”. 

Plus, the Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist JFDR selects her sonic safe haven - the piece of music that brings her ultimate calm. She chooses a track by a friend of hers that transports her to a certain time of her life, that is both meditative and meaningful for her. 

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

Ultimate Calm: Ólafur Arnalds: Series 2

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.

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