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Summon calm with contemplative piano sounds

A calming, contemplative piano soundtrack featuring music by Frédéric Chopin, Ennio Morricone and Eva Tiedemann.

Tune out the noise and settle into a calm, focused headspace with this two hour piano mixtape. Blending timeless works by composers such as Frédéric Chopin, Erik Satie, and Hildegard von Bingen with contemporary voices like Eva Tiedemann, Ryoka Hagiwara, and Gwenno Morgan, the mix moves gently between eras and styles to create a space for reflection and quiet focus.

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Music Played

  • Daniela Mlčúchová

    Simple Life

    Performer: Daniela Mlčúchová.
    • Simplicity.

  • Susan Legg

    Pagodesque no.4

    Performer: Stephen Baysted.
    • The Impressionists: And the Man Who Made Them (Original Motion Picture Soundtrac.
    • Redrocca.

  • Erik Satie

    Je Te Veux

    Performer: Axel Gillison.
    • Satie Slow Motions.

  • Joe Hume

    Dolce Piano

    Performer: Joe Hume.
    • Dolce Piano.

  • Taz Modi

    Waterland

    Performer: Taz Modi.
    • Reclaimed Goods.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Caritas abundat

    Performer: François Mardirossian.
    • Sources inconnues.

  • Alanna Crouch

    souls connect

    Performer: Alanna Crouch.
    • dreams observed.

  • Anis Fuleihan

    Piano Sonata No. 9: II. Lento

    Performer: Tatiana Primak-Khoury.
    • Lebanese Piano Music.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Andante spianato from Andante spianato et grande polonaise brilliante in E-flat

    Performer: Eric Lu.
    • Andante spianato from Andante spianato et grande polonaise brilliante in E-flat.

  • Chris Doyle

    Ease

    Performer: Chris Doyle.
    • For Afie.

  • Eva Tiedemann

    Nachteule

    Performer: Eva Tiedemann.
    • Alles Wird Gut.

  • Polly Carter

    Happy as a Skylark

    Performer: Polly Carter.
    • Happy as a Skylark.

  • Lennox Berkeley

    6 Preludes, Op. 23: No. 6, Andante

    Performer: Douglas Stevens.
    • Lennox Berkeley: The Complete Piano Works.

  • Alisha Redmond

    Grand Ridge

    Performer: Alisha Redmond.
    • Regermination.

  • Cyril Scott

    Poems: II. The Garden of Soul-Sympathy

    Performer: Cristian Sandrin.
    • Correspondances.

  • Richard Strauss

    Morgen, Op. 27 No. 4 (Arr. Reger for Piano)

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

  • Ennio Morricone

    Intervallo II

    Performer: Ennio Morricone.
    • Veruschka - Poesia di una donna (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).

  • Jean Sibelius

    6 Impromptus, Op. 5: Impromptu No. 6

    Performer: Jean-Baptiste Doulcet.
    • Sibelius: 6 Impromptu, Op. 5, Impromptu No. 6.

  • Rosey Chan

    The Improvisation That Led Me To Moon River

    Performer: Rosey Chan.
    • The Improvisation That Led Me To Moon River.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Romance

    Performer: Adriano Spampanato.
    • Romance.

  • Ryoka Hagiwara

    In A Haze

    Performer: Ryoka Hagiwara.
    • ICHI.

  • Chris Abrahams

    The Sleepings and the Drifts

    Performer: Chris Abrahams.
    • Climb.

  • Ollie McGill

    The Clouds

    Performer: Ollie McGill.
    • Beach House.

  • Gwenno Morgan

    siheilw

    Performer: Gwenno Morgan.
    • siheilw.

  • Marlies du Mosch

    L'escalier

    Performer: Marlies du Mosch.
    • L'escalier.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Saint-Saëns: The Swan (The Carnival of the Animals)

    Performer: Music Lab Collective.
    • Chilled Piano Vol.3.

Broadcasts

  • Thu 30 Apr 202612:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Sunday12:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind

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