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Gentle piano music to boost your concentration levels

A lovingly-curated compilation of serene piano music designed to calm the mind and help you find focus. Including pieces by April Chung, Tigran Hamasyan and Maria Thompson Corley.

Allow the distractions to melt away and immerse yourself in this lovingly-crafted mix of serene piano music designed to calm the mind and help you find focus. Featuring a seventeenth-century hornpipe by Henry Purcell and an Elizabethan song by John Dowland - both reworked for solo piano - alongside contemporary pieces by April Chung, Tigran Hamasyan and Elena Kole.

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Music Played

  • George Gershwin

    Three Preludes: II. Andante con moto e poco rubato in C Sharp Minor

    Performer: Frank Braley.
    • Gershwin: Piano Works.

  • Albert Herrero

    搁锚惫别谤颈别蝉

    Composer: Alexandra Str茅liski. Performer: Albert Herrero. Performer: Alexandra Str茅liski.
    • N茅o-Romance (Extended Version).

  • Franz Schubert

    St盲ndchen, S. 560 (Trans. from Schwanengesang No. 4, D. 957)

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Schubert.

  • Richard Strauss

    4 Lieder, Op. 27: IV. Morgen (Arr. for Piano)

    Performer: Alissa Zoubritski.
    • Transcriptions lyriques.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Magnolia, Pt. 2: Pt. 2, Mammy

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.

  • Tigran Hamasyan

    The Sacrifice 2

    Performer: Tigran Hamasyan.
    • They Say Nothing Stays the Same (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).

  • Yuriko Inoue

    Sky blue

    Performer: Yuriko Inoue.
    • Sky blue.

  • Oliver Davis

    Blue

    Composer: Beth & Flo. Performer: Oliver Davis. Performer: Beth & Flo.

  • Regina Harris Baiocchi

    Piano Poems: I. Common things surprise us

    Performer: Sarah Cahill.
    • The Future is Female, Vol. 3, 'At Play'.

  • John Barry

    Somewhere in Time

    Performer: Johannes Bornl枚f.
    • Neoclassical Piano.

  • Edward MacDowell

    10 Woodland Sketches No.3: At An Old Trysting Place

    Performer: The Eternal Dreamers.
    • 10 Woodland Sketches, Op. 51.

  • Adolf von Henselt

    Berceuse "Wiegenlied", WoO (Op. 45) in G-Flat Major

    Performer: Daniel Grimwood.
    • Piano Works.

  • Ryuichi Sakamoto

    Amore

    Performer: Ryuichi Sakamoto.
    • Playing The Piano.

  • Maria Corley

    Mother's Sacrifice

    Performer: Maria Corley.
    • Soulscapes.

  • Courtney Bryan

    Eternal Rest

    Performer: Courtney Bryan.
    • This Little Light of Mine.

  • John Dowland

    Farewell, P.3 (Arr. for Piano by Arseniy Gusev)

    Performer: Arseniy Gusev.
    • Musical Offering.

  • April Chung

    Still Life

    Performer: April Chung.
    • Dimmed Whispers.

  • Mark Sutton

    In The Stars

    Performer: Mark Sutton.

  • Wouter Hardy

    Brother

    Performer: HRDY.
    • A New Dawn.

  • GKO

    Ascend

    Performer: GKO.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Encouragement aux jeunes pianistes: No. 3, Rondino valse

    Performer: Maria Stratigou.
    • Farrenc: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 3 鈥� Rondeaux.

  • Henry Purcell

    Hornpipe in B Flat Major

    Performer: Piano Girl.
    • Relaxing Classical Piano Music: Works of Bach, Beethoven, Clementi, Diabelli, Ha.

  • Dora Ziskalova

    For Ellie (Rainy Atmosphere)

    Performer: Dora Bondy.
    • Piano Forte.

  • Rich Batsford

    Heard On the Breeze

    Performer: Rich Batsford.
    • Oceans On The Moon.

  • Julien Marchal

    Insight XIII

    Performer: Julien Marchal.
    • Insight.

  • Agnes Obel

    Mary (Instrumental)

    Performer: Agnes Obel.
    • Citizen of Glass.

  • Peter Warlock

    Bethlehem Down

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Warlock: Bethlehem Down.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lake in the Mountains

    Performer: Mark Bebbington.
    • The Piano Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams.

  • Nkeiru Okoye

    African Sketches: II. Dusk

    Performer: Rochelle Sennet.
    • Bach to Black: Suites for Piano, Vol. III..

  • Jack Hopkins

    Epoch

    Performer: Jack Hopkins.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130 (Transcr. for Piano 4-Hands): V.

    Performer: Duo Stephanie & Saar.
    • Cavatine.

  • Hanan Townshend

    My Father

    Performer: Hanan Townshend.
    • Strawberry Days.

  • Elena Kole

    A Lot of Tenderness

    Performer: Elena Kole.
    • Purple Bird.

  • Thomas Tallis

    If Ye Love Me

    Performer: Music Lab Collective.
    • If Ye Love Me (arr. piano).

Broadcasts

  • Sun 8 Dec 2024 12:00
    成人快手 Radio 3 Unwind
  • New Year's Day 2025 12:00
    成人快手 Radio 3 Unwind