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Contemplative piano music to relax your mind

From Debussy to Kara-Lis Coverdale, a piano journey blending eras, voices, and styles.

A carefully woven soundscape where impressionist textures, experimental improvisations, and contemporary reflections coalesce. Debussy’s bell-toned delicacy sets the stage, while jazz-inflected voices such as Abdullah Ibrahim and Nils Frahm breathe modern intimacy into the tradition. Voices once overlooked—like Viola Kinney’s poignancy and Ruth Gipps’ lyricism, find their place beside Delphine Dora’s dreamlike fragments and Aaron Breeze’s minimalist contemplations.
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Produced by Áine Devaney.
A Reduced Listening production for 鶹 Sounds MM.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Martin Jacoby

    Images, Livre 2, L. 111: I. Cloches à travers les feuilles

    Performer: Claude Debussy. Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Time to Chill Out With Classical.
  • ()()()

    19:34:00

    Performer: ()()().
    • PIANO IMPROVISATIONS II.
  • Huw Roberts

    Sleeper Train

    Performer: Hidden Rivers.
    • Always Somewhere Else.
    • SEREIN.
  • Abdullah Ibrahim

    Trieste My Love

    Performer: Abdullah Ibrahim.
    • Solotude.
    • Gearbox Records.
  • Nils Frahm

    Listening Over

    Performer: Nils Frahm.
    • Night.
    • LEITER.
  • Joanna Brouk

    The Space Between (Glimpse)

    Performer: Joanna Brouk.
    • Bliss Out: For Days.
    • Numero Group.
  • L. Viola Kinney

    Mother's Sacrifice

    Performer: Katarina Andjelkovic.
    • Quietudes.
  • A Winged Victory for the Sullen

    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, for the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year

    Performer: Adam Wiltzie. Performer: Dustin O’Halloran.
    • A Winged Victory for the Sullen.
    • Erased Tapes Records.
  • Michelle Moeller

    Nest

    Performer: Michelle Moeller.
    • Late Morning.
    • AKP Recordings.
  • Hans Otte

    The Book of Sounds: Part 1

    Performer: Nicolas Horvath.
    • Hans Otte: The Book of Sounds.
    • Collection 1001 Notes.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Sonata for Cello and Piano: II. Andantino

    Performer: Joseph Spooner. Performer: Duncan Honeybourne.
    • Ruth Gipps: OPALESCENCE Piano and Chamber Music (1921–1999).
    • Prima Facie.
  • Yumiko Morioka

    Rainbow Gate

    Performer: Yumiko Morioka.
    • Resonance.
    • Metron Records.
  • François Rossignol

    ʴè

    Performer: François Rossignol.
    • Une nuit à Piopolis.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    Le rossignol éperdu: No. 1, Frontispice

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Hahn: Piano Music - ʴès & Valses.
    • HYPERION.
  • Delphine Dora

    Fragments Of Dreams Are Only Echoes Of Memories

    Performer: Delphine Dora.
    • A Stream of Consciousness.
    • Siren Wire Editions.
  • Aaron Breeze

    Pause

    Performer: Aaron Breeze.
    • Pause for Reflection.
  • Howard Skempton

    Images: Prelude No. 5

    Performer: William Howard.
    • Howard Skempton: Piano Works.
    • Sony.
  • Ferruccio Busoni

    7 Elegien, BV 249: 7. Berceuse

    Performer: Gianluca Cascioli.
    • '900 Italia.
  • Cerys Hafana

    Difrisg

    Performer: Cerys Hafana.
    • Difrisg.
    • Dharma.
  • Kara‐Lis Coverdale

    Turning Multitudes

    Performer: Kara‐Lis Coverdale.
    • A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever.
    • Smalltown Supersound.
  • An Gwang Hyeon

    Form II

    Performer: An Gwang Hyeon.
    • Selected Works (2022-2025).
  • Frédéric Chopin, Alexander Gadjiev, Consano Quartet & Jan Zahourek

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21: II. Larghetto [arr. for String Quintet]

    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21: II. Larghetto [arr. for String Quintet].
  • Lucinda Gallant

    Secret Melancholy

    Performer: Lucinda Gallant.
    • Little Pieces of Me.
  • Matteo Myderwyk

    Nostalgia

    Performer: Matteo Myderwyk.
    • a brief nostalgia.
    • Warner Classics.

Broadcasts

  • Thu 6 Nov 2025 12:00
  • Sat 6 Dec 2025 12:00
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