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Tranquil piano music for inspiration

Maintain your creative momentum with this playlist of calming and meditative piano classics.

Boost your motivation and lift your spirits with this two-hour mix of tranquil and soothing piano pieces, ideal for a focused work session. Featuring piano classics by Claude Debussy, Clara Schuman and Edward Elgar, as well as a modern piece from UK-based virtuosic pianist Belle Chen’s new album and music from composer Joanne Gardiner.

Produced by Alexa Kruger
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3 Unwind, MM.

2 hours

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Tomorrow 12:00
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Music Played

  • Dirk Maassen

    Highways

    Performer: Dirk Maassen.
    • Highways.

  • Georges Bizet

    Chants du Rhin, WD 52: Les rêves

    Performer: Nathanaël Gouin.
    • Bizet sans Paroles.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Valse Lente

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Valse Lente.

  • Laura Christie Wall

    You Are

    Performer: Laura Christie Wall.
    • BBC Introducing.

  • ispirà

    sēnse

    Performer: ispirà.
    • sēnse.

  • Lisa Kriegler

    What I Was Then What I Am Now

    Performer: Lisa Kriegler.
    • Radiance.

  • Alexander Scriabin

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

    Performer: Alexander Gadjiev.
    • 12 Etudes, Op.8, No. 8 in A-flat major.

  • William Thomson

    Reflections

    Performer: William Thomson.
    • Reflections.

  • Tigran Hamasyan

    Postlude (After Seven Winters)

    Performer: Tigran Hamasyan.
    • Postlude (After Seven Winters).

  • William Alwyn

    2 Irish Pieces: No. 1.From the Countryside

    Performer: Ashley Wass.
    • 2 Irish Pieces: No. 1.From the Countryside.

  • Tan Dun

    8 Memories in Watercolour: No. 7, Floating Clouds

    Performer: Edward Han Jiang.
    • Piano Miniatures From China.

  • Rachel Currea

    Dragonflies

    Performer: Rachel Currea.
    • Inner Sound Piano Solos.

  • Sarah Baker

    It Changes Around Me

    Performer: Sarah Baker.
    • BBC Introducing.

  • Claude Debussy

    Rêverie, CD 76

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • A Summer Afternoon.

  • Maria Stratigou

    30 Piano études, Op. 26: No. 21 in A-Flat Major, Adagio

    Performer: Louise Farrenc.
    • Farrenc: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1 - Études.

  • Michael Torke

    Chancel

    Performer: Michael Torke.
    • Sessions, 3 A.M..

  • Helen Jane Long

    Invisible

    Performer: Helen Jane Long.
    • Disconnect.

  • Andrew Lodge

    Nothing to be Done

    Performer: Andrew Lodge.
    • Nothing to be Done.

  • Eleonora Pellegrino

    Follow Me

    Performer: Eleonora Pellegrino.
    • Follow Me.

  • Ben Crosland

    Oceans Apart

    Performer: Ben Crosland.
    • The Turn.

  • Fabrizio Paterlini

    Home, at Last

    Performer: Fabrizio Paterlini.
    • Home, at Last.

  • Margaret Bonds

    Bright Star

    Performer: Lara Downes.
    • Bright Star.

  • Clara Schumann

    3 Romanzen, Op.11: III. Romanze in A-Flat Major

    Performer: Domenico Codispoti.
    • 3 Romanzen, Op.11: III. Romanze in A-Flat Major.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    An Orkney Tune

    Performer: Richard Casey.
    • An Orkney Tune.

  • Belle Chen

    Adagio, Sans

    Performer: Belle Chen.
    • Ravel in the Forest.

  • Christof R Davis

    Lamb of the Midlands

    Composer: John Vegard Schow. Performer: Christof R Davis. Performer: John Vegard Schow.
    • Pianists of the World.

  • Rich Batsford

    Lighter Than Air

    Performer: Rich Batsford.
    • Lighter Than Air.

  • Sharon Lynn Makarenko

    St. Mary's Bay

    Performer: ANAÏS.
    • St. Mary's Bay.

  • Edvard Grieg

    In My Native Country

    Performer: Tom Borrow.
    • In My Native Country.

  • Oleksiy Sakevych

    Serenity - 2023 Version

    Performer: Endless Melancholy.
    • Serenity.

  • Joanne Gardiner

    Void

    Performer: Joanne Gardiner.
    • Void.

  • Miguel Pérez

    Casa Luminosa

    Performer: Miguel Pérez.
    • Casa Luminosa.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Carnival, Suite of Five Dances: IV. Columbine

    Performer: Rochelle Sennet. Performer: Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge.
    • Bach to Black: Suites for Piano, Volume II..

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata No. 13 in A, D.664: II. Andante

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Schubert: Piano Sonatas.

  • Elizabeth Bouknight

    Eau Claire

    Performer: Elizabeth Bouknight.
    • Eau Claire.

  • Alexis Ffrench

    Story of You

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench.
    • Dreamland.

  • Samuel Barber

    Petite Berceuse

    Performer: Giampaolo Nuti.
    • Souvenirs & Recollections.

  • Rosey Chan

    Autumn

    Performer: Rosey Chan.
    • Autumn.

  • Edward Elgar

    Elgar: Chanson de Nuit

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

Broadcasts

  • Sun 10 Nov 2024 12:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Wed 4 Dec 2024 12:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Tue 1 Apr 2025 12:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Tomorrow 12:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind