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Moving musical metamorphosis ft. Agnes Obel

Ultimate Calm Hania Rani: Series 4
Episode 7 of 12

Embrace transformation with Hania Rani and some peaceful morphing musical selections that gently ebb and flow. Plus, the Danish artist Agnes Obel shares her musical safe havens.

Change and transformation happens in us and around us constantly, even if it is slow and subtle - from the changing of the seasons to the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly.

Embrace the spirit of transformation with Polish composer, pianist, and vocalist Hania Rani as she shares peaceful morphing musical selections that gently ebb, flow and change, with pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Jóhann Jóhannsson and Sarah Davachi.

Plus, the Danish singer, songwriter and artist Agnes Obel shares her own definitions of calm in music, transporting us to not one but three safe havens.

Produced by Kit Callin
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Mon 23 Jun 2025 21:00
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Music Played

  • Hania Rani

    Nostalgia

    Performer: Hania Rani.
    • Nostalgia.
    • Gondwana Records.

  • Philip Glass

    Glass: Études: No. 15

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Philip Glass: Piano Works.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Christina Vantzou

    Your Changes Have Been Submitted

    Performer: Christina Vantzou.
    • No. 1.

  • Agnes Obel

    Promise Keeper

    Performer: Agnes Obel.
    • Myopia.

  • Portico Quartet

    Mirage

    Ensemble: Portico Quartet.
    • We Welcome Tomorrow.
    • Gondwana Records.

  • Trad.

    Tsintskaro

    Performer: Hamlet Gonashvili.
    • Hamlet Gonashvili.

  • Shabaka Hutchings

    Memories don't live like people do

    Performer: Shabaka Hutchings.
    • Afrikan Culture.
    • Impulse!.

  • Steve Reich

    Drumming: Part II

    Performer: Steve Reich.
    • Collected Works.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Jóhann Jóhannsson

    Kangaru

    Performer: Jóhann Jóhannsson.
    • Arrival (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).

  • Agnes Obel

    Parliament Of Owls

    Performer: Agnes Obel.
    • Neo Classical 2023.
    • Strange Harvest.

  • Green-House

    Soft Meadow

    Performer: Green-House.
    • Six Songs for Invisible Gardens.
    • LEAVING RECORDS.

  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque No. 1

    Performer: Hikaru Shirosu.
    • Arabesque No. 1.
    • Shirosu Records.

  • Angelo Badalamenti

    Twin Peaks Theme

    Performer: Angelo Badalamenti.
    • Twin Peaks Theme.
    • Warner Bros. Records.

  • Sarah Davachi

    Gradual of Image

    Performer: Sarah Davachi.
    • Antiphonals.
    • Late Music.

  • Tobias Hume

    A Question

    Performer: Anja Lechner.
    • Bach / Abel / Hume.
    • ECM Records.

  • Hildur Guðnadóttir

    Líður (Chernobyl Version)

    Performer: Hildur Guðnadóttir.
    • Chernobyl.
    • Touch Music.

  • Beautyon

    To Swing Pil

    Performer: Beautyon.
    • IDMEMO - A Future Of Nostalgia Vol. 2.
    • Above Board Projects.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Well Tempered Clavier, Book 2 - Prelude and Fugue No. 8 in D-Sharp Minor

    Performer: Piotr Anderszewski.
    • Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (Excerpts).
    • Parlophone Records.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 28 Apr 2025 21:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Last Sunday 22:00
    BBC Radio 3
  • Mon 23 Jun 2025 21:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind