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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.

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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‐Chernin

    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’s.
    • 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‐Lobos

    Tristorosa

    Performer: Maria InΓͺs GuimarΓ£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. RΓͺverie

    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

    Κλίμα (Klima)

    Composer: Christina Vantzou. Performer: John Also Bennett. Performer: Christina Vantzou.
    • Κλίμα (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‐Mason. 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 HΓΌgel

    Elemental - IV - Earth

    Performer: Josch HΓΌgel.
    • Elemental - IV - Earth.

  • Philip Glass

    Γ‰tudes pour piano, Vol. 1: Γ‰tude No. 2

    Performer: François Mardirossian.
    • Philip Glass: Γ‰tudes pour piano - IntΓ©grale.

  • Manuel de Falla

    7 Canciones populares espaΓ±olas: No. 5, Nana (Arr. Halffter)

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

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