Ultimate Calm with Ólafur Arnalds

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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 1: Hopeful harmonies feat. Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Hopeful harmonies feat. Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Ólafur Arnalds: Series 1

BBC Radio 3 - Ultimate Calm, Ólafur Arnalds: Series 1, Hopeful harmonies feat. Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Ólafur Arnalds looks for silver linings in sound with hope-inspired musical selections.

Ólafur Arnalds looks for the silver linings in sound with musical selections based around hope, including a Safe Haven from actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

Join Icelandic composer and pianist Ólafur Arnalds for another hour-long musical journey that seeks to find that elusive feeling of calm. 

In this week’s episode, Ólafur looks for the silver linings in sound with a selection of songs inspired around the theme of hope. He reflects on how music can often provide the little glimmers of hope that you need to get through the toughest of times, and shares tracks by the likes of Alice Coltrane, Sigur Rós and JFDR.

Plus the British actress and UNHCR goodwill ambassador Gugu Mbatha-Raw transports us to her Safe Haven, the place she feels the most calm - her bath. 

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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