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This is the most beautiful thing you'll hear all day

Call to Mind: Most Beautiful Thing You Will Hear Today

Classical MPR gets to the heart of the matter with music that brings you healing, balance and beauty. In fact, it might be the most beautiful thing you'll hear all day.

Join Classical MPR host John Birge every weekday at 9 a.m. in May for music specially chosen to make a place for space and grace in your day. It's part of MPR's Call to Mind initiative for Mental Health Month.

Play more than an hour's worth of beautiful music now above, or listen online at 9 a.m. each weekday below.

Playlist

Gabriel Faure: Requiem - In Paradisum/Pie Jesu
Lisa Beckley, Nicholas Gedge, Oxford Schola Cantorum, Oxford Camerata, Colm Carey, Jeremy Summerly

Erik Satie: Gymnopedie Nos. 1 and 3
Klara Kormendi

Engelbert Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel - Evening Prayer
Axel Kohler, Vienna Boys Choir, soloist, Cologne Radio Orchestra, Helmut Froschauer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Serenade No. 10 "Gran Partita" - Adagio
German Wind Soloists, Richard Edlinger

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5 - Adagietto
London Symphony Orchestra, James DePreist

Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Oboe and Violin - Adagio
Emilia Csanky, Bela Banfalvi, Budapest Strings

Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Two Violins - Largo
Takako Nishizaki, Alexander Jablokov, Capella Istropolitana, Oliver Dohnanyi

Gabriel Faure: Pavane
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Keith Clark

Jules Massenet: Thais - Meditation
Janos Selmeczi, Camerata Transylvanica, Gyorgy Selmeczi

George Frideric Handel: Xerxes - Largo
Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Helmut Muller-Bruhl

Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi - O Mio Babbino Caro
Miriam Gauci, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Rahbari

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 - 2nd movement
Stefan Vladar, Capella Istropolitana, Barry Wordsworth

Peter Tchaikovsky: Andante Cantabile
New Haydn Quartet

Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 208 - Sheep May Safely Graze
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hayman

Franz Schubert: An Die Musik (To Music)
Markus Eiche, Jens Fuhr

Gabriel Faure: Pelleas and Melisande - Sicilienne
RTE National Symphony Orchestra, John Georgiadis

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Oboe Concerto - 2nd movement
Martin Gabriel, Vienna Mozart Academy, Johannes Wildner

Leo Delibes: Lakme - Flower Duet
Adriana Kohutkova, Denisa Slepkovska, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Wildner

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