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Quiet piano music to guide focus and calm

From Claude Debussy鈥檚 delicate Ballade slave, L. 70, to Aphex Twin鈥檚 haunting Petiatil Cx Htdui, this mix drifts through hazy nocturnes, minimalist studies, and cinematic textures.

Threading together reverb-drenched modernism, early 20th-century elegance, and ambient soundscapes, this collection invites you into a world of hushed intensity and inner reflection. It opens with Debussy鈥檚 Ballade Slave and journeys through the subtle worlds of Doreen Carwithen, Urmas Sisask, and contemporary voices like Shida Shahabi, Rachel Portman, and Mette Henriette. Each piece carries its own quiet weight鈥攑oised between memory and imagination.
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Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Ballade Slave, L.70

    Performer: Alain Plan猫s.
    • Debussy: Estampes; Pour le piano; 6 茅pigraphes antiques.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Aaron Tagliaboschi

    Sunrise in the Rocking Chair

    Performer: Aaron Tagliaboschi.
    • Spare.

  • Ichiko Aoba

    Parfum d'茅toiles

    • Windswept Adan.
    • HERMINE.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Sonatine, M. 40: I. Mod茅r茅

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Sarah Cahill & Regina Myers

    Interlude III

    • UP.

  • Arnold Kasar

    Restonica

    • Einfluss.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Shida Shahabi

    Smygkatt

    • 91福利社s.
    • 130701.

  • Doreen Carwithen

    Sonatina: II. Molto adagio

    Performer: Daniel Grimwood.
    • Alwyn and Carwithen: Piano Works.
    • Edition Peters.

  • Cerys Hafana

    Cynharlaw

    • Difrisg.
    • Instant Karma Classics.

  • Cacilda Borges Barbosa

    Estudo Brasileiro No. 1

    Performer: Cristian Budu.
    • Pianolatria.
    • SESC.

  • Edward Elgar

    3 Characteristic Pieces, Op. 10: No. 2. Serenade mauresque (arr. for piano)

    Performer: Ashley Wass.
    • Elgar: Piano Music.
    • Naxos.

  • Mashu Hayasaka

    May 20 VI

    • Piano Etudes I.
    • All Flight Night.

  • Urmas Sisask

    Starry Sky Cycle Op.52 : 25. Ursa Minor [Peace]

    Performer: Lauri V盲inmaa.
    • Sisask : Starry Sky Cycle.
    • Finlandia Records.

  • Duval Timothy

    Dust

    • Sen Am.
    • Carrying Colour.

  • William Alwyn

    Cricketty Mill

    Performer: Ashley Wass.
    • Alwyn: Piano Music, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.

  • Yujin Baek

    yunseul

    • Summer piano.

  • Mette Henriette

    .oOo.

    • Mette Henriette.
    • ECM Records.

  • Ian Hawgood

    Pimlico

    • Piano Works.
    • Koen Music.

  • Dustin O鈥橦alloran

    Improvisation II

    • Piano Solos, Vol. 2.
    • Bella Union.

  • Alexandre Desplat

    Opus 20

    • Music from the Motion Picture The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
    • Condord Records.

  • Emile Mosseri

    Benjamin and Daisy

    • Kajillionaire (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Mondo.

  • Oliver Brouwer

    After The Quake

    • LP1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Chorale Prelude BWV 659: 'Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland'

    Performer: Giorgi Gigashvili.
    • Peter Ritzen: Reminiscence of a Legendary Concert.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade IV

    Performer: Anna Fedorova.
    • Intrigues of the Darkness.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Arnold Bax

    Lullaby (Berceuse), GP 224

    Performer: Eric Parkin.
    • Bax: Piano Music, Vol. 1.
    • Chandos Records.

  • Max Richter

    Fragment

    • Songs From Before.
    • 130701.

  • Rachel Portman

    June

    • June.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Olga Kharitonova

    The Japanese Koto

    • AMEB Piano For Leisure Series 3 Preliminary Grade (Arr. for Piano).
    • AMEB.

  • Ozzy Miyanagi

    1am Sanctuary

    • 1am Sanctuary.

  • Paul Haslinger

    Mishkin

    • Exit Ghost II.
    • Artificial Instinct.

  • Alice Bosman

    17

  • Clark

    Tobi Thwarted

    • Kiri Variations.
    • Throttle Records.

  • Aphex Twin

    Petiatil Cx Htdui

    • Drukqs.
    • Warp Records.

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