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Gentle piano music for a peaceful mind

Soundtrack your focus time with beautiful piano pieces from across the centuries, featuring Halim El-Dabh, Eva Tiedemann, and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Fade out distractions and find a peaceful, centred headspace with this specially curated mix of beautiful piano pieces from across the centuries. Featuring the meditative piano work of early electronic pioneer Halim El-Dabh, an ethereal performance of Mel Bonis’s Les Gitanos, Op. 15, and contemporary gems from Alexis Ffrench, Ollie McGill, and Amina Claudine Myers.

Produced by Jamie Green
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Music Played

  • Ernest Bloch

    Enfantines B. 49: X. Dream Bloch: Visions and Pr

    Performer: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Bloch: Visions and Prophecies Five Sketches in Sepia Piano Sonata Enfantines In.

  • Jordan Ireland

    Starring

    Performer: Jordan Ireland.
    • Spirit Walking.

  • Alma Deutscher

    I Think of You

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

  • Sherwood Roberts

    The Retired Dancer

    Performer: Sherwood Roberts.
    • The Retired Dancer.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Pezzo in C Major for Piano Solo

    Performer: Eugenio Catone.
    • Shostakovich: Complete Piano Works Vol. 1.

  • Béla Bartók

    Andante - Variation

    Performer: Garreth Broke.
    • Bartók Felt.

  • Eva Tiedemann

    Nachteule

    Performer: Eva Tiedemann.
    • Alles Wird Gut.

  • Mel Bonis

    Les Gitanos Op. 15

    Performer: Michel Serres.
    • Mel Bonis: Morceaux de piano - Tome 2.

  • Matthew Bourne

    Désinance IV.1 (for Tommi Grönlund)

    Performer: Matthew Bourne.
    • This Is Not For You..

  • Leslie Howard

    Harmonies poétiques et religieuses S. 172a (1st Version): VII. Hymne de l'enfant

    Performer: Franz Liszt.
    • Liszt: Complete Piano Music 47 – Litanies de Marie.

  • Alexis Ffrench

    Reverie (Solo Piano Version)

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench.
    • Classical Soul Vol. 1.

  • Ollie McGill

    The Clouds

    Performer: Ollie McGill.
    • Beach House.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words Book I Op. 19b: No. 1 Andante con moto MWV U86

    Performer: Daniel Adni.
    • Mendelssohn Songs without Words etc..

  • Rosey Chan

    Autumn

    Performer: Rosey Chan.
    • Autumn.

  • Marlies du Mosch

    Voyage Vers La Mer

    Performer: Marlies du Mosch.
    • Tale of a City.

  • Chris Abrahams

    The Sleepings and the Drifts

    Performer: Chris Abrahams.
    • Climb.

  • Bonifaz Krug

    Pensieri musicali La vita di Gesù Cristo: No. 1 Nazareth

    Performer: Silvia Vaglica.
    • Liszt & Krug: Opere sacre per pianoforte.

  • Yiruma

    la mia notte

    Performer: Yiruma.
    • la mia notte.

  • Joe Collier

    Reverie Breath You Take

    Performer: Joe Collier.
    • Reverie Breath You Take.

  • Kelly Moran

    It's Okay to Disappear

    Performer: Kelly Moran.
    • Moves in the Field.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Pas des ésharpes Op. 37

    Performer: Eric Parkin.
    • Chaminade: Piano Works.

  • Samuel Félix

    Juin

    Performer: Samuel Félix.
    • X Waltzes For Silver.

  • Edward Elgar

    Sonatina: I. Andantino (Revised Version)

    Performer: Peter Pettinger.
    • Peter Pettinger plays Elgar Piano Works.

  • Halim El‐Dabh

    Blue Coral

    Performer: Halim El‐Dabh.
    • Piano Music of Halim El-Dabh.

  • William Byrd

    Ut re mi fa sol la - Fantasia (Fitzwilliam 101; Nevell 9; MB 28/64)

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

  • Amina Claudine Myers

    Song for Mother E

    Performer: Amina Claudine Myers.
    • Song for Mother E.

  • Tanya Ekanayaka

    Seiri

    Performer: Tanya Ekanayaka.
    • 18 Piano Sutras & 25 South Asian Pianisms.

  • Margaret Bonds

    Spiritual Suite for Piano: No. 2 The Bells

    Performer: Samantha Ege.
    • Black Renaissance Woman.

Broadcasts

  • Thu 10 Jul 202512:00
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