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.
To listen on most smart speakers, just say: 鈥淎sk 麻豆社 Sounds to play Piano Focus鈥�.
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Alain Plan猫s
Ballade Slave, L.70
- Debussy: Estampes; Pour le piano; 6 茅pigraphes antiques.
- Harmonia Mundi.
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Aaron Tagliaboschi
Sunrise in the Rocking Chair
Performer: Aaron Tagliaboschi.- Spare.
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Ichiko Aoba
Parfum d'茅toiles
- Windswept Adan.
- HERMINE.
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Bertrand Chamayou
Ravel: Sonatine, M. 40: I. Mod茅r茅
- Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano.
- Warner Classics.
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Sarah Cahill & Regina Myers
Interlude III
- UP.
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Arnold Kasar
Restonica
- Einfluss.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Shdia Shahabi
Smygkatt
- Homes.
- 130701.
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Daniel Grimwood
Sonatina: II. Molto adagio
- Alwyn and Carwithen: Piano Works.
- Edition Peters.
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Cerys Hafana
Cynharlaw
- Difrisg.
- Instant Karma Classics.
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Cristian Budu
Estudo Brasileiro No. 1
- Pianolatria.
- SESC.
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Ashley Wass
3 Characteristic Pieces, Op. 10: No. 2. Serenade mauresque (arr. piano)
- Elgar: Piano Music.
- Naxos.
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Mashu Hayasaka
May 20 VI
- Piano Etudes I.
- All Flight Night.
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Lauri V盲inmaa
Sisask : Starry Sky Cycle Op.52 : 25. Ursa Minor [Peace]
- Sisask : Starry Sky Cycle.
- Finlandia Records.
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Duval Timothy
Dust
- Sen Am.
- Carrying Colour.
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Ashley Wass
Cricketty Mill
- Alwyn: Piano Music, Vol. 1.
- Naxos.
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Yujin Baek
yunseul
- Summer piano.
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Mette Henriette
.oOo.
- Mette Henriette.
- ECM Records.
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Ian Hawgood
Pimlico
- Piano Works.
- Koen Music.
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Dustin O鈥橦alloran
Improvisation II
- Piano Solos, Vol. 2.
- Bella Union.
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Alexandre Desplat
Opus 20
- Music from the Motion Picture The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
- Condord Records.
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Emile Mosseri
Benjamin and Daisy
- Kajillionaire (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
- Mondo.
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Oliver Brouwer
After The Quake
- LP1.
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Giorgi Gigashvili
Chorale Prelude BWV 659: 'Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland'
- Peter Ritzen: Reminiscence of a Legendary Concert.
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Anna Fedorova
Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade IV
- Intrigues of the Darkness.
- Channel Classics.
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Eric Parkin
Lullaby (Berceuse), GP 224
- Bax: Piano Music, Vol. 1.
- Chandos Records.
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Max Richter
Fragment
- Songs From Before.
- 130701.
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Rachel Portman
June
- June.
- Sony Classical.
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Olga Kharitonova
The Japanese Koto
- AMEB Piano For Leisure Series 3 Preliminary Grade (Arr. for Piano).
- AMEB.
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Ozzy Miyanagi
1am Sanctuary
- 1am Sanctuary.
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Paul Haslinger
Mishkin
- Exit Ghost II.
- Artificial Instinct.
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Alice Bosman
17
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Clark
Tobi Thwarted
- Kiri Variations.
- Throttle Records.
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Aphex Twin
Petiatil Cx Htdui
- Drukqs.
- Warp Records.
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