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Calming piano mix for enhanced focus

Keep your creative focus flowing with this collection of tranquil and reflective piano pieces.

Stay motivated and centred with this peaceful and atmospheric mix of piano music. With iconic piano pieces by composers Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann and Florence Price alongside neoclassical sounds from British pianists Becky Ainge, Arelius and Simeon Walker.

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Music Played

  • Charles-Valentin Alkan

    Esquisses, Op. 63 (Book I): II. Op. 63 No. 1 La Vision

    Performer: Pascal Amoyel.
    • Alkan: Piano Works.

  • Alma Deutscher

    When the Day Falls into Darkness (From "Cinderella")

    Performer: Alma Deutscher.
    • From My Book of Melodies.

  • Ludovico Einaudi

    Una mattina (From "The Intouchables")

    Performer: Anna Scheps.
    • Classic Meets Movie.

  • April Chung

    When the Moon Drifts

    Performer: April Chung.
    • When the Moon Drifts.

  • Roger Quilter

    Quilter / Arr. Hough: 3 Songs, Op. 3: No. 2, Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • The Piano Album 1.

  • Franziska Helmrath

    l'adieu

    Performer: Annie Rosier.
    • marionettes.

  • Becky Ainge

    Little Rays

    Performer: Becky Ainge.
    • ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Introducing track.

  • Paulette VerlΓ©e

    Thick as Thieves

    Performer: Paulette VerlΓ©e.
    • Perpetuum Mobile.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata in C major, K. 330, II. Andante cantabile

    Performer: Eric Lu.
    • ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 New Generation Artist performance.

  • Nico Muhly

    Determined

    Performer: Nico Muhly.
    • Pachinko: Season 2 (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack).

  • Γ–zgΓΌr Deniz Kaya & Luke Faulkner

    The Winter Wind

    • The Winter Wind.

  • Maria Hester Park

    Piano Sonata in C Major, Op. 7: II. Larghetto

    Performer: Betty Ann Miller.
    • Music by Maria Hester Park, Marie Bigot, and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel.

  • Ming Quay

    Journey Together

    Performer: Ming Quay.
    • with you.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Seasons, Op. 37a, TH 135: 3. March: Song of the Lark

    Performer: Valentina Lisitsa.
    • Tchaikovsky - Complete Works for Solo Piano.

  • Cyril Scott

    Two Pieces, Op. 47: 1. Lotus Land

    Performer: Adriano Spampanato.
    • Two Pieces, Op. 47: 1. Lotus Land.

  • Eren Γ–nsoy

    In My Dreams

    Performer: sonbahar.
    • And Early Hours.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Nocturne

    Performer: Andrew Matthews-Owen.
    • Halo - Music for Piano.

  • Svetoslav Karparov

    Straße des 17. Juni

    Performer: Svetoslav Karparov.
    • Berlin.

  • Edward MacDowell

    Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: No. 1: To a Wild Rose

    Performer: James Barbagallo.
    • Edward MacDowell - Piano Music Vol. 1.

  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Sonata in G Minor: II. Adagio

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Romance - The Piano Music of Clara Schumann.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    Reflections

    Performer: Thomas Gould. Performer: Ciaran McCabe.
    • Voices Piano Strings.

  • Wayne Wilkins

    head in the clouds

    Performer: Arelius.
    • head in the clouds.

  • Dru Down

    Promise Me

    Performer: GΓ…EL.
    • Promise Me.

  • Alan Gogoll

    The Sun in the Sea (Solo Piano Version)

    Performer: Avorjorn.
    • The Sun in the Sea (Solo Piano Version).

  • Edward Han Jiang

    Improvisation on the Theme of Yu Guang Qu

    Performer: Edward Han Jiang.
    • Piano Miniatures from China.

  • Florence Price

    To a White Rose

    Performer: Lara Downes.
    • Piano Discoveries.

  • Elisabeth Lutyens

    Dance Souvenance

    Performer: Martin Jones.
    • Elisabeth Lutyens Piano Works - Volume 3.

  • Eleri Morgan

    Sleepybye

    Performer: Eleri Morgan.
    • ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Introducing track.

  • Cephas Azariah

    Contours

    Performer: Cephas Azariah.
    • Contours.

  • Fabrizio Paterlini

    Story #1

    Performer: Fabrizio Paterlini.
    • Summer Stories.

  • James Pratley Watson

    eyes closed (extended version)

    Performer: James Pratley Watson.
    • landscapes.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude from Prelude & Fugue in E-flat minor, BWV 853 (Das Wohltemperierte Klavi

    Performer: Alim Beisembayev.
    • ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 New Generation Artist performance.

  • Mel Bonis

    Cloches lointaines, Op. 121

    Performer: Myriam Barbaux-Cohen.
    • Mel Bonis.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Lyric Pieces, Book 1, Op. 12 - No. 5, Popular Melody

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Grieg: Lyric Pieces.

  • Marcus Elkjer

    Bargaining

    Performer: Marcus Elkjer.
    • Bargaining.

  • Lisa Mears

    Sunrise over the Mountains

    Performer: Lisa Mears.
    • ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Introducing track.

  • John Bull

    My Grief (Fitzwilliam 190; MB 19/139)

    Performer: Kit Armstrong.
    • William Byrd / John Bull - The Visionaries of Piano Music.

  • William Alwyn

    Water Lilies

    Performer: Ashley Wass.
    • Piano Music 2.

  • Simeon Walker

    Captive

    Performer: Simeon Walker. Performer: Laura Masotto.
    • Winnow (Deluxe Edition).

  • Chris Bartels

    Plains to Pass

    Composer: Philip Daniel. Performer: Mircadia.
    • Long Secrets.

  • Arvo PΓ€rt

    Variationen zur Gesendung von Arinuschka

    Performer: Alexei Lubimov.
    • Pourquoi je suis si sentimental.

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