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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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.
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19:34:00
Performer: ()()().- PIANO IMPROVISATIONS II.
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Huw Roberts
Sleeper Train
Performer: Hidden Rivers.- Always Somewhere Else.
- SEREIN.
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Abdullah Ibrahim
Trieste My Love
Performer: Abdullah Ibrahim.- Solotude.
- Gearbox Records.
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Nils Frahm
Listening Over
Performer: Nils Frahm.- Night.
- LEITER.
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Joanna Brouk
The Space Between (Glimpse)
Performer: Joanna Brouk.- Bliss Out: For Days.
- Numero Group.
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L. Viola Kinney
Mother's Sacrifice
Performer: Katarina Andjelkovic.- Quietudes.
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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.
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Michelle Moeller
Nest
Performer: Michelle Moeller.- Late Morning.
- AKP Recordings.
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Hans Otte
The Book of Sounds: Part 1
Performer: Nicolas Horvath.- Hans Otte: The Book of Sounds.
- Collection 1001 Notes.
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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.
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Yumiko Morioka
Rainbow Gate
Performer: Yumiko Morioka.- Resonance.
- Metron Records.
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François Rossignol
ʴè
Performer: François Rossignol.- Une nuit à Piopolis.
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Reynaldo Hahn
Le rossignol éperdu: No. 1, Frontispice
Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.- Hahn: Piano Music - ʴès & Valses.
- HYPERION.
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Delphine Dora
Fragments Of Dreams Are Only Echoes Of Memories
Performer: Delphine Dora.- A Stream of Consciousness.
- Siren Wire Editions.
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Aaron Breeze
Pause
Performer: Aaron Breeze.- Pause for Reflection.
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Howard Skempton
Images: Prelude No. 5
Performer: William Howard.- Howard Skempton: Piano Works.
- Sony.
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Ferruccio Busoni
7 Elegien, BV 249: 7. Berceuse
Performer: Gianluca Cascioli.- '900 Italia.
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Cerys Hafana
Difrisg
Performer: Cerys Hafana.- Difrisg.
- Dharma.
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Kara‐Lis Coverdale
Turning Multitudes
Performer: Kara‐Lis Coverdale.- A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever.
- Smalltown Supersound.
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An Gwang Hyeon
Form II
Performer: An Gwang Hyeon.- Selected Works (2022-2025).
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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].
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Lucinda Gallant
Secret Melancholy
Performer: Lucinda Gallant.- Little Pieces of Me.
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Matteo Myderwyk
Nostalgia
Performer: Matteo Myderwyk.- a brief nostalgia.
- Warner Classics.
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