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Radio 3 Unwind,08 Dec 2024,120 mins

Gentle piano music to boost your concentration

Piano Focus

Available for 26 days

Allow distractions to melt away and immerse yourself in this carefully crafted mix of serene piano music designed to calm the mind and help you find focus. Featuring a seventeenth-century hornpipe by Henry Purcell and an Elizabethan song by John Dowland - both reworked for solo piano - alongside contemporary pieces by April Chung, Tigran Hamasyan and Elena Kole. Produced by Alexa Kruger. A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3 Unwind. MM. To listen on most smart speakers just say 'ask BBC Sounds to play Piano Focus'.

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  1. Track
    Artist
  2. 1.
    Three Preludes: II. Andante con moto e poco rubato in C Sharp Minor
    Three Preludes: II. Andante con moto e poco rubato in C Sharp Minor
    George Gershwin
  3. 2.
    Rêveries
    Rêveries
    Albert Herrero & Alexandra Stréliski
  4. 3.
    Ständchen, S. 560 (Trans. from Schwanengesang No. 4, D. 957)
    Ständchen, S. 560 (Trans. from Schwanengesang No. 4, D. 957)
    Franz Schubert