Ultimate Calm with Ólafur Arnalds

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Music: Easy Listening, Soundtracks & Musicals

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

Ultimate Calm: Ólafur Arnalds: Series 1: Calming cinematic soundtracks feat. Isobel Waller-Bridge

Calming cinematic soundtracks feat. Isobel Waller-Bridge

Ólafur Arnalds: Series 1

BBC Radio 3 - Ultimate Calm, Ólafur Arnalds: Series 1, Calming cinematic soundtracks feat. Isobel Waller-Bridge

Settle in with Ólafur Arnalds for a selection of some of his favourite film scores.

Settle in with Ólafur Arnalds as he flicks through his film collection to share some favourite soundtracks. Plus composer Isobel Waller-Bridge transports us to her Safe Haven.

Escape with Icelandic composer and pianist Ólafur Arnalds for another hour-long musical journey into calmness. 

In this week’s episode, Ólafur flicks through his film collection to share some of his favourite scores and soundtracks that totally transport their audiences, painting pictures through sound. There’ll be the sounds of deep-sea diving, wanders through the wilderness and even the most peaceful-sounding alien invasion from composers like Jóhann Jóhannsson, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Galya Bisengalieva. 

Plus the British composer Isobel Waller-Bridge invites us to join her in her safe haven, the place she feels most calm, listening to the birds and the wind through the trees on Hampstead Heath in London.

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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