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Switch on your focus with this immersive piano mix

Switch on your focus with this playlist of meditative and dreamy piano classics.

Switch on your focus and keep your creativity flowing with this meditative piano mix. Featuring Debussy’s Préludes pour piano performed by Bulgarian master pianist, Marietta Petkova, Vivaldi’s Lute Concerto in D Major, arranged by Andrew Gentile and performed by Jeffrey Biegel, as well as modern piano pieces by Duval Timothy, Salenta + Topu and Lubomyr Melnyk.

Produced by Cat Gough
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3 Unwind, MM.

2 hours

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Tuesday 12:00
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Music Played

  • Erik Satie

    Gnossiennes: No. 3, Lent

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • WAVES (Music by Satie).

  • Emma Jackson

    Velvet Embrace

    Performer: Emma Jackson.
    • Improvised Hope.

  • Leo Livens

    Moonbeams

    Performer: Duncan Honeybourne.
    • A Hundred Years of British PIano Miniatures.

  • S. Salter

    Robins

    Performer: S. Salter.
    • Robins.

  • Julia Gjertsen

    Shadows

    Performer: Julia Gjertsen.
    • Shadow Light.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Ma mère l'Oye, M. 60: For Piano Duet, M.60:1. Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant

    Performer: Roger Muraro. Performer: Hortense Cartier-Bresson.
    • Concert in Paris.

  • Harold Budd

    Pulse Pause Repeat

    Composer: Rubén García. Composer: Daniel Lentz. Performer: Harold Budd. Performer: Rubén García. Performer: Daniel Lentz.
    • Music For Three Pianos.

  • Duval Timothy

    Whale

    Performer: Duval Timothy.
    • Sen Am.

  • Hideyuki Hashimoto

    Solphine

    Composer: Martin Martyn. Performer: Hideyuki Hashimoto. Performer: Martin Martyn.
    • Coral.

  • Geraldine Mucha

    For Erika

    Performer: Patricia Goodson.
    • Geraldine Mucha - Chamber Music.

  • Kelly Moran

    Vesela

    Performer: Kelly Moran.
    • Vesela.

  • Rose Riebl

    Someone Will Us

    Performer: Rose Riebl.
    • Do Not Move Stones.

  • Philip Glass

    Opening

    Performer: Bruce Brubaker.
    • Hope Street Tunnel Blues: Music for Piano by Philip Glass and Alvin Curran.

  • Claude Debussy

    Préludes pour piano, 1er Livre: VIII. La fille aux cheveux de lin

    Performer: Marietta Petkova.
    • Feux d’Artifice.

  • Oles Stefanyk

    Flock of Birds

    Performer: Oles Stefanyk.
    • BBC Introducing.

  • Emilie Levienaise Farrouch

    Ravage - solo piano edit

    Performer: Emilie Levienaise Farrouch.
    • Ravage.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Lute Concerto in D Major, RV 93 (arr. A. Gentile): II. Largo

    Performer: Jeffrey Biegel. Performer: Andrew Gentile.
    • Vivaldi, A.: 4 Seasons (The) / Mandolin Concerto, Rv 425 / Lute Concerto, Rv 93.

  • Mashu Hayasaka

    January 17 III

    Performer: Mashu Hayasaka.
    • January 17 III.

  • Alexander Scriabin

    Deux Poèmes, Op. 32: No. 1 in F-sharp major, Andante cantabile

    Performer: Alexander Gadjiev.
    • Deux Poèmes, Op. 32: No. 1 in F-sharp major, Andante cantabile.

  • JJJJJerome Ellis

    Movement VII

    Performer: JJJJJerome Ellis.
    • Compline in Nine Movements.

  • Patrick Yeboah

    Humble Beginninngs

    Performer: Patrick Yeboah.
    • BBC Introducing.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite in G Minor, HWV 452: 3. Sarabande

    Performer: Keith Jarrett.
    • Handel: Suites For Keyboard.

  • April Chung

    Still Life

    Performer: April Chung.
    • Dimmed Whispers.

  • Aiden Appleton

    Dreamfall

    • Dreamfall.

  • Frank Bridge

    A Fairy Tale Suite: III. The Spell

    Performer: Mark Bebbington.
    • The Piano Music of Frank Bridge, Vol. II.

  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Étude no.41 in E flat major

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • Hélène de Montgeroult: Études.

  • Karim Kamar

    The Journey

    Performer: Karim Kamar.
    • The Journey.

  • Sophia Jani

    Summer and summer and winter again

    Performer: Sophia Jani.
    • Summer and summer and winter again.

  • Lubomyr Melnyk

    Cloud No. 81

    Performer: Lubomyr Melnyk.
    • Illirion.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Chorale Prelude Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (BWV 659)

    Performer: Giorgi Gigashvili.
    • Chorale Prelude Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (BWV 659).

  • s Shelley

    Lament for a Previous Life

    Performer: s Shelley.
    • Invocation.

  • Matt Stewart-Evans

    Twilight

    Performer: Matt Stewart-Evans.
    • Twilight.

  • Dame Ethel Mary Smyth

    4 Dances: II. Sarabande in D Minor

    Performer: Liana Șerbescu.
    • Smyth: Complete Piano Works.

Broadcasts

  • Sat 9 Nov 2024 12:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Wed 20 Nov 2024 12:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Boxing Day 2024 12:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Mon 13 Jan 2025 12:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Mon 31 Mar 2025 12:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Tuesday 12:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind