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Find calm and inspiration with this soothing piano playlist

A crafted piano mix to boost your focus and keep you energised including works by Franz Schubert, Fiona Brice and Max Richter.

A soothing playlist of beautiful piano music, carefully selected and sequenced to help you stay focused on the task in hand. Alongside new neoclassical music by Max Richter, Ludovico Einaudi and Fiona Brice are nineteenth- and twentieth-century favourites including a Romance without words from Gabriel Faur茅, Johannes Brahms鈥 Intermezzo in A Major and a much-loved Schubert Impromptu.

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Produced by Alexa Kruger
A Reduced Listening Production for 大象传媒 Radio 3 Unwind. MM.

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Music Played

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Faur茅: 3 Romances sans paroles, Op. 17: No. 3 in A-Flat Major

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Autograph.
  • Joe Hume

    Nocturnal

    Performer: Joe Hume.
    • Nocturnal.
  • Alessandra Celletti

    Alone Together

    Composer: Francesco Adornetto. Performer: Alessandra Celletti.
    • Alone Together.
  • Helen Keeling-Marston

    The Time We Shared

    Performer: Helen Keeling-Marston.
    • 大象传媒 Introducing track.
  • Ahmed Adnan Saygun

    陌nci'nin Kitab谋: VI. Ninni

    Performer: Fazil Say.
  • Herbert Howells

    To a Wild Flower

    Performer: Matthew Schellhorn.
    • Howells: Piano Music, Vol. 2.
  • Toru Takemitsu

    Piano Pieces for Children: No. 2. Clouds

    Performer: Kotaro Fukuma.
    • Takemitsu: Piano Music.
  • Alexei Surovykh

    Foggy Morning

    Performer: Alexei Surovykh.
  • Rebecca Jean Rossi

    Retrospective

    Performer: Rebecca Jean Rossi.
  • Manos Milonakis

    Masha's Song

    Performer: Manos Milonakis.
    • The Seagull.
  • Ludovico Einaudi

    Seven Days Walking / Day 2: Ascent

    Performer: Ludovico Einaudi. Performer: Federico Mecozzi. Performer: Redi Hasa.
    • Stillness.
  • Wilhelm Kempff

    Italian Suite, Op. 68: IV. Notturno

    Performer: 陌dil Biret.
    • 陌dil Biret 20th Century Piano Edition.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Six Piano Pieces, Op. 118: Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 118, No. 2

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Brahms: H盲ndel Variations.
  • Stephen Emmer

    Mm III

    Performer: Stephen Emmer.
    • Maison Melody.
  • William Cas

    Shadows, Pt. II

    Performer: William Cas.
    • Cycles.
  • Agathe Backer-Gr酶ndahl

    3 Morceaux, Op.15: No. 1, Serenade

    Performer: Sara Aim茅e Smiseth.
  • Ethel Smyth

    2 Canons: I. Nocturne. Canon by inversion

    Performer: Liana 葮erbescu.
    • Smyth: Complete Piano Works.
  • Max Richter

    A Colour Field - Piano Version

    Performer: Max Richter.
    • A Colour Field (Piano Version).
  • Richard Hellgren

    Solace

    Performer: Richard Hellgren.
    • Solace.
  • Biba Dupont

    I crash as soft

    Performer: Biba Dupont.
    • Time by your side.
  • Leopold Ko啪eluh

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major: II. Adagio (Arr. T.M. Parish for piano and

    Performer: Rochelle Sennet.
    • Keyboard Works of Leopold Kozeluch.
  • Margaret Bonds

    Spiritual Suite for Piano: II. The Bells

    Performer: Rochelle Sennet.
    • Bach to Black: Suites for Piano, Vol. III.
    • Albany Records.
    • 78.
  • David Hadjadj

    Message

    Performer: David Hadjadj.
    • Sweet Bean (Original Score).
  • Joe Hisaishi

    Ask Me Why (Mother's Message)

    Performer: Joe Hisaishi.
    • The Boy and the Heron.
  • Garreth Broke

    Dust of Snow

    Performer: Garreth Broke. Performer: Mari Kanki.
    • Dust of Snow.
  • Sarah Cahill

    Patterns of Plants, the Twelfth Collection: Pattern B

    Performer: Sarah Cahill.
    • Mamoru Fujieda.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Three Piano Pieces: II. Air

    Performer: Scott Mitchell.
    • Malcolm Arnold: The Complete Works for Piano.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: No. 5, Menuet

    Performer: Anne Riegler.
    • 脌 la mani猫re de....
  • Betty Jackson King

    Seasonal Sketches: I. Spring Intermezzo

    Performer: Maria Corley.
    • Soulscapes 2.
  • Michele Nobler

    Hidden Behind a Smile

    Performer: Michele Nobler. Performer: Audio Waves.
  • Javi Lobe

    Alba's Winter Night

    Performer: Javi Lobe.
    • Alba's Winter Night.
  • Fiona Brice

    Prelude 5

    • Piano Preludes.
  • Eternal Spring

    Sacred

    Performer: Eternal Spring.
  • Franz Schubert

    4 Impromptus D.899, Op.90 for piano, No.3 in G flat major - Live

    Performer: Eric Lu.
  • Marianna Martines

    Piano Sonata in A Major: II. Adagio

    Performer: Adalberto Maria Riva.
    • Femmes Compositrices.
  • Simon Lowy

    Welcome to the World

    Performer: Simon Lowy.
    • 大象传媒 Introducing track.
  • Ava Rasti

    Horsewoman

    • A Butterfly Fly From Each Fingertip (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).

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