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Tranquil piano for deep focus

Create a calm, focused atmosphere with this thoughtfully curated piano mix, featuring music by Arvo Pärt, Rachel Grimes, and Takuro Kikuchi.

Channel your focus and drift into a state of flow with this tranquil two-hour mixtape of classical and contemporary piano gems. The mix features timeless works by Rachmaninoff and Arvo Pärt, meditative modern pieces by British composers such as Thibault Ravina and Tanya Ekanayaka, and the warm, uplifting touch of Ethiopian pianist Tigist Ejigu.

Produced by Jamie Green.
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3 Unwind. MM.

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2 hours

Last on

Sat 29 Nov 202512:00
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Music Played

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    12 Songs, Op.21:V. Lilacs (Transcr. Rachmaninoff for Solo Piano)

    Performer: Sergei Babayan.
    • Rachmaninoff: Préludes / Études-Tableaux / Moments Musicaux.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Gareth Malone

    May

    Performer: Gareth Malone.
    • Music For Healing.
    • Decca.

  • Arvid Rune

    L'accalmie

    Performer: Arvid Rune.
    • L'accalmie.

  • Thibault Ravina

    Winter Waltz

    Performer: Thibault Ravina.
    • From a New Distance.

  • Helen Hopekirk

    Sundown

    Performer: Gary Steigerwalt.
    • Hopekirk: Piano Works.
    • Toccata Classics.

  • Laurence Crane

    3 Preludes: No.1

    Performer: Michael Finnissy.
    • 20th Century Music - Solo Piano Pieces 1985-1999.
    • Metier.

  • Marlies du Mosch

    Easy Piece Sixteenth

    Performer: Marlies du Mosch.
    • 20 Easy Pieces For Piano.

  • Dario Lessing

    Sonnenstrahl

    Performer: Dario Lessing.
    • DNA.

  • Tigist Ejigu

    Letidar

    Performer: Tigist Ejigu.
    • Ambasel.
    • Mulatta.

  • Arvo Pärt

    Spiegel im Spiegel

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Simon Mulligan.
    • About Time.
    • Daniel Hope.

  • Eriko Uegaki

    Prelude

    Performer: Eriko Uegaki.

  • Cyril Scott

    Berceuse

    Performer: Leslie De’Ath.
    • Cyril Scott: Complete Piano Music, Vol 4 (Piano Works: 1998-1963).
    • Dutton.

  • Rachel Grimes

    In The Parlor

    Performer: Rachel Grimes.
    • Marion County 1938.

  • Walter Niemann

    Moderne Tanzsuite, Op. 115: II. Valse Boston

    Performer: Gottlieb Wallisch.
    • 20th Century Foxtrots, Vol. 2.
    • Grand Piano (2).

  • Arthur Schwartz

    Alone Together

    Composer: Howard Dietz. Performer: Masabumi Kikuchi.
    • Hanamichi – The Final Studio Recording Vol.II.
    • Red Hook Records.

  • Throwing a Spoon

    Clouds

    Performer: Throwing a Spoon.
    • Awakening.

  • George Bogdanov

    Overnight

    Performer: George Bogdanov.
    • Big Little.
    • George Bogdanov Records.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Nepenthe and The Muse

    Performer: Luke Welch.
    • Northern Magnolias: Robert Nathaniel Dett Piano Works.
    • Navona Records.

  • Takuro Kikuchi

    緑に揺れる

    Performer: Takuro Kikuchi.
    • 春の音.
    • HANON RECORDS.

  • Alisha Redmond

    The Grand Ridge

    Performer: Alisha Redmond.
    • Regermination.

  • Iryna Gould

    Swift Dream

    Performer: Iryna Gould.
    • Swift Dream.

  • Marie Jaëll

    Ce qu'on entend dans le paradis: IV. Quiétude

    Performer: David Bismuth.
    • Jaëll: Musique symphonique & Musique pour piano (Portraits, Vol. 3).
    • Bru Zane.

  • GKO

    Green

    Performer: GKO.
    • Color Studies.

  • Alma Deutscher

    Piano Sonata in E-Flat Major: Movement 2. Fantasia

    Performer: Alma Deutscher.
    • Deutscher: The Music of Alma Deutscher.
    • Flara Records.

  • Edwin York Bowen

    Serious Dance, Op. 51 No. 2

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's English Piano Album.
    • Hyperion Records.

  • Theodore Lee

    Inwood Improv: Sakura Park

    Performer: Theodore Lee.
    • Inwood Improvisations.

  • Reginald King

    Melody at Dusk

    Performer: Mark Bebbington.
    • Song of Paradise.
    • Somm.

  • Tanya Ekanayaka

    Nivahan

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

  • Alexander Gadjiev

    12 Etudes, Op.8, No. 8 in A-flat major

    Performer: Alexander Gadjiev.
    • Legends.
    • Outheremusic France.

Broadcasts

  • Thu 30 Oct 202512:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Sat 29 Nov 202512:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind