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: Music to bring calm amidst the chaos feat. Benjamin Hardman

Music to bring calm amidst the chaos feat. Benjamin Hardman

Ólafur Arnalds: Series 1

BBC Radio 3 - Ultimate Calm, Ólafur Arnalds: Series 1, Music to bring calm amidst the chaos feat. Benjamin Hardman

Escape the noise with Ólafur Arnalds and a musical life raft of soothing songs.

Join Ólafur Arnalds on his musical life raft of soothing songs that look for calm amidst chaos. Plus, photographer Benjamin Hardman transports us to a volcanic eruption in Iceland.

Join Icelandic composer and pianist Ólafur Arnalds for an hour-long musical journey into the world of calm. 

In the final episode of the series, Ólafur focuses on music that seeks to bring calm amidst the chaos with a selection of songs to help you escape the hectic stresses of this time of year. He shares music from Poppy Ackroyd, Voces8 and Nils Frahm, and reflects on the importance of tuning out the noise and the pressures of the everyday in order to claim back a moment of stillness for yourself. 

Plus the photographer Benjamin Hardman transports us to his Safe Haven, the place where he feels the most calm, with recordings from the eruption of Icelandic volcano Meradalir where he spends a lot of his time - demonstrating the ultimate definition of calm amidst chaos. 

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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