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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

  • 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.
  • John Field

    Nocturne No. 2 in C Minor

    Performer: Benjamin Frith.
    • Field: Piano Music, Vol. 1.
  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Biqui

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska.
    • Kats-Chernin: Unsent Love Letters.
  • April Chung

    Dimmed Whispers

    Performer: April Chung.
    • Dimmed Whispers.
  • Jordain Wallace

    Iovis

    Performer: Jordain Wallace.
    • To/Day.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    In the bottoms: IV. Barcarolle

    Performer: Natalie Hinderas.
    • Piano Music by African-American Composers.
  • Rachel Grimes

    Wally, Egon & Models in the Studio

    Performer: Rachel鈥檚.
    • Music for Egon Schiele.
  • Gia Margaret

    3 movements

    Performer: Margaret Lauren Comes.
    • Mia Gargaret.
  • Poldowski

    Caledonian Market (Excerpts): No. 6, Musical Box

    Performer: Jan Philip Schulze.
    • Forever Never - Preludes.
  • Chris Abrahams

    Surface Level I

    Performer: Chris Abrahams.
    • Appearance.
  • Flaer

    Forever Never

    Performer: Flaer.
    • Prelude.
  • HC Small

    Only Child

    Performer: Vazz.
    • Anatomy Of A Piano.
  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Tristorosa

    Performer: Maria In锚s Guimar茫es.
    • Villa-Lobos: Saudades das Selvas Brasileira.
  • Melissa Parmenter

    Salthouse - Part I

    Performer: Melissa Parmenter.
    • North Sea.
  • Jane Antonia Cornish

    Last Light

    Performer: Vicky Chow.
    • Jane Antonia Cornish: Sierra.
  • James MacMillan

    Lumen Christi

    Performer: Simon Smith.
    • MacMillan, MacRae: Piano Works.
  • Frederick Delius

    Two Piano Pieces: II. R锚verie

    Performer: Charles Abramovic.
    • Delius: Piano Music.
  • Matthew Bourne

    Candela (For Sascha Heeney)

    Performer: Matthew Bourne.
    • Isotach.
  • 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).
  • Hubert Parry

    Five Miniatures: No. 1, Sleepy

    Performer: Richard Dering.
    • Parry: Piano Music.
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto

    20220302 - sarabande

    Performer: Ryuichi Sakamoto.
    • 12.
  • 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).
  • Richard D. James

    Nanou2

    Performer: Aphex Twin.
    • Drukqs.
  • Shida Shahabi

    All In Circles

    Performer: Shida Shahabi.
    • Shifts.
  • 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.
  • John Ireland

    Month's Mind

    Performer: Eric Parkin.
    • Ireland: The Piano Music.
  • Yehezkel Raz

    Eleven Hours a Night

    Performer: Yehezkel Raz.
    • Odds.
  • Blair Coron

    A Carrying Stream

    Performer: Blair Coron.
    • A Carrying Stream.
  • Josch H眉gel

    Elemental - IV - Earth

    Performer: Josch H眉gel.
    • Elemental - IV - Earth.
  • 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.
  • Manuel de Falla

    7 Canciones populares espa帽olas: No. 5, Nana (Arr. Halffter)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Love Songs - Piano Transcriptions Without Words.

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