Piano gems to help you find calm and focus
A mix of calming piano gems featuring tracks from contemporary artist-composers such as April Chung as well as American classical favourites from Florence Price and Philip Glass.
Find calm and focus with this carefully-curated selection of piano music. Featuring the work of contemporary composers Rachel Grimes, Shida Shahabi and Elena Kats-Chernin alongside classical tracks from Heitor Villa-Lobos, John Field and Florence Price. Plus a selection from electronic music producer Richard David James, aka Aphex Twin, heard here in a more intimate and pared-down solo piano setting.
Produced by 脕ine Devaney
A Reduced Listening production for 麻豆社 Radio 3 Unwind. MM.
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Music Played
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Prelude Op.16 No 4. in E flat minor: Lento
Performer: Alexander Gadjiev.- Prelude Op.16 No 4. in E flat minor: Lento.
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John Field
Nocturne No. 2 in C Minor
Performer: Benjamin Frith.- Field: Piano Music, Vol. 1.
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Elena Kats鈥怌hernin
Biqui
Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska.- Kats-Chernin: Unsent Love Letters.
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April Chung
Dimmed Whispers
Performer: April Chung.- Dimmed Whispers.
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Jordain Wallace
Iovis
Performer: Jordain Wallace.- To/Day.
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R. Nathaniel Dett
In the bottoms: IV. Barcarolle
Performer: Natalie Hinderas.- Piano Music by African-American Composers.
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Rachel Grimes
Wally, Egon & Models in the Studio
Performer: Rachel鈥檚.- Music for Egon Schiele.
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Gia Margaret
3 movements
Performer: Margaret Lauren Comes.- Mia Gargaret.
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Poldowski
Caledonian Market (Excerpts): No. 6, Musical Box
Performer: Jan Philip Schulze.- Forever Never - Preludes.
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Chris Abrahams
Surface Level I
Performer: Chris Abrahams.- Appearance.
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Flaer
Forever Never
Performer: Flaer.- Prelude.
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HC Small
Only Child
Performer: Vazz.- Anatomy Of A Piano.
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Heitor Villa鈥怢obos
Tristorosa
Performer: Maria In锚s Guimar茫es.- Villa-Lobos: Saudades das Selvas Brasileira.
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Melissa Parmenter
Salthouse - Part I
Performer: Melissa Parmenter.- North Sea.
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Jane Antonia Cornish
Last Light
Performer: Vicky Chow.- Jane Antonia Cornish: Sierra.
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James MacMillan
Lumen Christi
Performer: Simon Smith.- MacMillan, MacRae: Piano Works.
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Frederick Delius
Two Piano Pieces: II. R锚verie
Performer: Charles Abramovic.- Delius: Piano Music.
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Matthew Bourne
Candela (For Sascha Heeney)
Performer: Matthew Bourne.- Isotach.
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Brian Eno
An Arc Of Doves - Remastered 2004
Composer: Harold Budd. Performer: Harold Budd. Performer: Brian Eno.- Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror (Remastered 2004).
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Hubert Parry
Five Miniatures: No. 1, Sleepy
Performer: Richard Dering.- Parry: Piano Music.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto
20220302 - sarabande
Performer: Ryuichi Sakamoto.- 12.
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John Also Bennett
螝位委渭伪 (Klima)
Composer: Christina Vantzou. Performer: John Also Bennett. Performer: Christina Vantzou.- 螝位委渭伪 (Klima).
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Richard D. James
Nanou2
Performer: Aphex Twin.- Drukqs.
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Shida Shahabi
All In Circles
Performer: Shida Shahabi.- Shifts.
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Florence Price
Piano Concerto in one movement (Adagio cantabile)
Performer: Jeneba Kanneh鈥怣ason. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Leslie Suganandarajah.- Price: Piano Concerto in One Movement: Adagio cantabile.
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John Ireland
Month's Mind
Performer: Eric Parkin.- Ireland: The Piano Music.
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Yehezkel Raz
Eleven Hours a Night
Performer: Yehezkel Raz.- Odds.
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Blair Coron
A Carrying Stream
Performer: Blair Coron.- A Carrying Stream.
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Josch H眉gel
Elemental - IV - Earth
Performer: Josch H眉gel.- Elemental - IV - Earth.
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Philip Glass
脡tudes pour piano, Vol. 1: 脡tude No. 2
Performer: Fran莽ois Mardirossian.- Philip Glass: 脡tudes pour piano - Int茅grale.
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Manuel de Falla
7 Canciones populares espa帽olas: No. 5, Nana (Arr. Halffter)
Performer: Angela Hewitt.- Love Songs - Piano Transcriptions Without Words.
Broadcasts
- Thu 12 Dec 2024 12:00麻豆社 Radio 3 Unwind
- Next Monday 12:00麻豆社 Radio 3 Unwind