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: Musical transformations feat. FINNEAS

Musical transformations feat. FINNEAS

BBC Radio 3 - Ultimate Calm, Ólafur Arnalds: Series 2, Musical transformations feat. FINNEAS

Ólafur Arnalds shares calming songs filled with a sense of transformation and renewal.

Ólafur Arnalds shares a selection of musical metamorphoses - calming songs inspired by transformation. And American musician and producer FINNEAS selects his musical safe haven.

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

In the final episode of the series, Ólafur looks inward with a selection of musical metamorphoses - calming songs inspired by a sense of transformation. He reflects on how we are always transforming ourselves in little ways, and how music plays a part in that, with tracks by Philip Glass, Alice Sara Ott, Boards of Canada and more. 

Plus our last guest is the award-winning American musician and producer FINNEAS, who shares his sonic safe haven - the piece of music that brings him ultimate calm. FINNEAS selects a nostalgic song that he has vivid memories of listening to in so many different situations, that always manages to settle him. 

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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