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Delicate piano music to guide your day

A gentle drift across eras and styles, from Romantic miniatures and impressionist colour to ambient minimalism and contemporary reflections.

Fluttering piano pieces unfold across centuries, from the lyricism of Ottorino Respighi and Maurice Ravel to the suspended textures of Kara-Lis Coverdale and Kelly Moran. Contemporary voices, including London’s Coby Sey, bring a soft, genre-blurring warmth, shaping a mix designed to steady the pace and guide focus.

Produced by Áine Devaney.
A Reduced Listening production for Radio 3 Unwind.

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Music Played

  • Ottorino Respighi

    6 Pieces for Piano: No. 3, Notturno

    Performer: Reed Tetzloff.
    • Respighi: 6 Pieces for Piano: No. 3, Notturno.

  • Thibault Ravina

    Horizon

    Performer: Thibault Ravina.
    • Horizon.

  • Christina Vantzou

    Harp of Yaman

    Composer: Michael Harrison. Composer: John Also Bennett. Performer: Christina Vantzou. Performer: Michael Harrison. Performer: John Also Bennett.
    • Harp of Yaman.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Miroirs, M. 43: II. Oiseaux tristes

    Performer: Pascal Rogé.
    • Maurice Ravel Ravel: Piano Music, Vol. 3.
    • Decca.

  • Colette Maze

    Paisajes: No. 2, El Lago

    Performer: Colette Maze.
    • 104 ans de piano.

  • Jamie Saft

    Maiden Without Eyes - Live

    Performer: Jamie Saft.
    • The Golden Scale (Live at the Piano Performance Museum).
    • Veal Records.

  • William Alwyn

    Cricketty Mill

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

  • Peter Sculthorpe

    Aboriginal Legend - sketch

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska.
    • Peter Sculthorpe: Complete Works for Solo Piano.

  • Celina Dias Barboza

    As Rosas Não Falam

    Performer: Celina Dias Barboza.
    • Celina Piano 2.

  • Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji

    2 Piano Pieces, KSS 17: No. 1, In the Hothouse -

    Performer: Michael Habermann.
    • Sorabji: Piano Music.

  • Ernest John Moeran

    Irish Lament

    Performer: Gerald Peregrine. Performer: Antony Ingham.
    • Folk Tales.

  • Kara‐Lis Coverdale

    Suspension of Swallowed Earth

    Performer: Kara‐Lis Coverdale.
    • A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever.

  • Kelly Moran

    Hypno

    Performer: Kelly Moran.
    • Moves in the Field.

  • Daniel Blumberg

    Porn

    Performer: Daniel Blumberg.
    • The Brutalist (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).

  • Lubomyr Melnyk

    A Warmer Place

    Performer: Lubomyr Melnyk.
    • Corollaries.

  • Sophia Subbayya Vastek

    In Our Softening

    Performer: Sophia Subbayya Vastek.
    • In Our Softening.

  • Dominique Lawalrée

    Séquence 05: De temps en temps

    Performer: Nicolas Horvath.
    • De temps en temps.

  • Peter Garland

    The Birthday Party: I. The Toasts (Remembrances)

    Performer: Aki Takahashi.
    • Peter Garland: The Birthday Party - 2017 -.

  • Nkeiru Okoye

    African Sketches: II. Dusk

    Performer: Maria Thompson Corley.
    • Soulscapes 2 - Piano Music by Women of African Descent.
    • MSR Classics.

  • Jonny Greenwood

    For the Hungry Boy

    Performer: Jonny Greenwood.
    • Phantom Thread (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).

  • Urmas Sisask

    Telescopium: Gentle Touch

    Composer: Yuko Yoshioka. Performer: Yuko Yoshioka.
    • Urmas Sisask: Starry Sky Cycle: Equatorial Sky.

  • Francis Choinière

    Rêverie

    Performer: Francis Choinière.
    • Rêverie.

  • Alice Boman

    17

    Performer: Alice Boman.
    • piano1.

  • Coby Sey

    To

    Performer: Coby Sey.
    • Passengers.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Opening theme from Piano Trio in A minor, III. Passacaille (Très large) EXTRACT

    Performer: Maurice Ravel. Performer: Mithras Trio.
    • NGA_Piano Trio (3rd mvt)_RFTX_Mithras Trio_PS Edit.wav.

  • Shin Suzuma

    Always

    Performer: Shin Suzuma.
    • BBC Introducing.

  • Lucinda Gallant

    Secret Melancholy

    Performer: Lucinda Gallant.
    • Secret Melancholy.

  • Cédric Dind‐Lavoie

    Le bout de l'île

    Performer: Cédric Dind‐Lavoie.
    • 88.

Broadcast

  • Last Thursday12:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind

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