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Gentle piano music for deep concentration

Soothe the mind and maintain your concentration for longer with this carefully crafted mix of gentle piano tracks and nature recordings.

Tune out the noise and enter a space of deep concentration with this selection of calming piano tracks gently woven with nature recordings to aid your focus. The mix features works by classical pioneers including Florence Price, Johannes Brahms and Camille Saint-Saëns, alongside fresh new releases from contemporary composers such as Niwamori Piano, Will Bloomfield and Polly Carter.

Produced by Jamie Green
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Music Played

  • Stephen Baysted

    Reflets dans l'eau (Film Edit)

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

  • GéNIA

    Ujjayi

    Performer: GéNIA.
    • Falling Stars.

  • Signe Lund

    Impressions of Nature, Op. 61: I. In the Boat

    Performer: Rune Alver.
    • Études Poétiques.

  • Emma Jackson

    I Wonder - Solo Piano

    Performer: Emma Jackson.
    • I Wonder (Solo Piano).

  • Eriko Uegaki

    prelude

    Performer: Eriko Uegaki.
    • .i.

  • Jamie Saft

    Maiden Without Eyes - Live

    Performer: Jamie Saft.
    • The Golden Scale (Live at the Piano Performance Museum).

  • Howard Hanson

    Slumber Song

    Performer: Thomas Labé.
    • Hanson: Piano Sonata / Poemes Erotiques / for the First Time.

  • Polly Carter

    Serenading the Moon

    Performer: Polly Carter.
    • Serenading the Moon.

  • William Grant Still

    Three Visions: II. Summerland

    Performer: Natalie Hinderas.
    • Piano Music by African-American Composers.
    • New World Records.

  • Rosey Chan

    How We Danced - Solo Piano Version

    Performer: Rosey Chan.
    • How We Danced (Solo Piano Version).

  • Will Bloomfield

    iris

    Performer: Will Bloomfield.
    • a gentle plea for chaos.

  • Yiruma

    la fine

    Performer: Yiruma.
    • non è la fine.
    • Decca.

  • Martèn LeGrand

    Optimism

    Performer: Martèn LeGrand.
    • Optimism.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    XIII. The Swan (Arr. J. Hume for Solo Piano)

    Performer: Joe Hume.
    • Ambience.
    • Big Round Records.

  • Brett Juilly

    The Ice Skater

    Performer: Brett Juilly.
    • Piano.

  • Niwamori Piano

    Kagurazaka

    Performer: Niwamori Piano.
    • Artemis.

  • Johannes Brahms

    7 Fantasien, Op. 116: IV. Intermezzo (Adagio)

    Performer: Axel Gillison.
    • Brahms Slow Motions.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata in C major, K. 330, II. Andante cantabile

    Performer: Eric Lu.
    • Piano Sonata in C major, K. 330, II. Andante cantabile.

  • Sarah Baker

    It Changes Around Me

    Performer: Sarah Baker.
    • BBC Introducing.

  • Edmund Finnis

    Lullaby for Emmeline

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • Finnis: Lullaby for Emmeline.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Charterhouse Suite - Six Short Pieces for Piano: IV. Slow Air - Lento

    Performer: Marija Bokor.
    • The Charterhouse Suite - Six Short Pieces for Piano.
    • Prospero Classical.

  • Alonso Del Carpio

    L'Étranger

    Performer: Alonso Del Carpio.
    • L'Étranger.

  • Clem Leek

    A Circle and a Square

    Performer: Clem Leek.
    • Signs.

  • Valmandel

    Nocturne No. 4, Ethereal

    Performer: Valmandel.
    • Nocturne No. 4, Ethereal.

  • Daniel Ariño

    Nit

    Performer: Daniel Ariño.
    • Nit.

  • Tamara Anna Cislowska

    Mother Sea (from "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea") - Piano Version

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska.
    • One Summer's Day: Studio Ghibli Favourites for Solo Piano by Joe Hisaishi.
    • ABC Classics.

  • Florence Price

    Child Asleep

    Performer: Lara Downes.
    • Child Asleep.

  • Gareth Sager

    Everything is a Blessing

    • 88 Tuned Dreams.

  • Caroline Reinagle

    Sonata for the Piano Forte in A Major, Op. 6: III. Andante

    Performer: Hiroaki Takenouchi.
    • Carwithen, Dring, Howell & Reinagle: Works for Solo Piano by British Women Compo.
    • Artalinna.

Broadcast

  • Yesterday12:00
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