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 with Ólafur Arnalds

Ultimate Calm: Ólafur Arnalds: Series 1: A soundtrack for wilderness walks feat. Sigrid

A soundtrack for wilderness walks feat. Sigrid

Ólafur Arnalds: Series 1

BBC Radio 3 - Ultimate Calm, Ólafur Arnalds: Series 1, A soundtrack for wilderness walks feat. Sigrid

Put on your hiking boots as Ólafur Arnalds shares music for long reflective walks.

Put on your hiking boots as Ólafur Arnalds shares meditative music for long reflective walks, plus singer-songwriter Sigrid takes us on a journey through the woods near her home.

Icelandic composer and pianist Ólafur Arnalds leads another hour-long musical journey into calmness.

Get your hiking boots ready for this episode of Ultimate Calm, as Ólafur provides a selection of meditative music for long reflective walks, including tracks from the likes of Eydís Evensen, Nils Frahm and JFDR. He also shares stories of his hikes into the Icelandic highlands and how putting one foot in front of the other can help him order his thoughts.

Plus the singer, songwriter and pianist Sigrid takes us on a walk through the place she considers her safe haven, where she feels most calm - the woods near her home in Norway.

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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