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Feel cool, calm and creative with a serene piano mix

A curated soundtrack of serene piano music, featuring legendary composers Duke Ellington, Cyril Scott and Cécile Chaminade.

Tune out the distractions and ease into a serene piano soundscape designed to help you stay cool, calm and creative amongst the daily hustle and bustle. The mix features music from legendary composers such as Duke Ellington, Cyril Scott and Cécile Chaminade, alongside contemporary British artists including Jack Herer, Tanya Ekanayaka and Matthew Bourne.

Produced by Jamie Green
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3 Unwind. MM.

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Music Played

  • Cyril Scott

    Berceuse

    Performer: Nino Gvetadze.
    • Cyril Scott: Visions.

  • GéNIA

    Ujjayi

    Performer: GéNIA.
    • Falling Stars.

  • Tanya Ekanayaka

    12 Piano Prisms: No. 10, B. Of Vannam & Zhuang Tai Qiu Si

    Performer: Tanya Ekanayaka.
    • Tanya Ekanayaka: 12 Piano Prisms.

  • Laura Netzel

    Aubade

    Performer: Sandra Mogensen.
    • En Pleine Lumière.

  • Chino Yoshio

    Sparrow of Tears

    Performer: Chino Yoshio.
    • Relax 2017.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Bagatelles et impromptus: VII. Love

    Performer: William Howard.
    • Sixteen Love Songs.

  • Tamas Szigyarto

    Voices & Echoes

    Performer: Tamas Szigyarto.
    • Voices & Echoes.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Preludio en Sol Mayor, Op. 32 No. 5

    Performer: Irina Shishkina.
    • Sueños de Otoño.

  • Matthew Bourne

    Only When It Is (In Memoriam Bill Kinghorn)

    Performer: Matthew Bourne.
    • This Is Not For You..

  • Amy Rita

    Goosebumps

    Performer: Amy Rita.
    • Goosebumps.

  • Kelly Moran

    Sodalis (II)

    Performer: Kelly Moran.
    • Moves in the Field.

  • Helen Hopekirk

    2 Tone-pictures: No. 2, The Seal-woman's Sea-joy

    Performer: Gary Steigerwalt.
    • Hopekirk: Piano Works.

  • Duke Ellington

    The Single Petal Of A Rose - The Queen's Suite

    Performer: Duke Ellington.
    • The Ellington Suites.

  • Jack Herer

    Winding Together

    Performer: Jack Herer.
    • I Came For The Rain.

  • Makar Yekmalyan

    10 Armenian Folk Songs: No. 3, Pzti tha

    Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan.
    • Ekmalian: Piano Works.

  • Adam Daudrich

    Izumi

    Performer: Adam Daudrich.
    • The Wooden Box.

  • Takuro Kikuchi

    Improvisation in E flat major No.1

    Performer: Takuro Kikuchi.
    • Pianoforte.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Suite of 6 Short Pieces: No. 4. Slow air

    Performer: Mark Bebbington.
    • The Piano Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures at an Exhibition: II. Il vecchio castello

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • 2025 Tranquil Nights.

  • Marta Cascales Alimbau

    House

    Performer: Marta Cascales Alimbau.
    • Light-House.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Grieg: Last Spring (From Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34)

    Performer: Music Lab Collective.
    • Chilled Piano Vol.4.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Sérénade, Op. 29

    Performer: Mark Viner.
    • Chaminade: Piano Works.

  • Rosey Chan

    Soundtrack for a Film of Silence

    Performer: Rosey Chan.
    • Soundtrack for a Film of Silence.

  • William Thomson

    The Lighthouse

    Performer: William Thomson.
    • Lighthouse.

  • Ollie McGill

    A Soft Breeze

    Performer: Ollie McGill.
    • Beach House.

  • Marlies du Mosch

    Le Temps

    Performer: Marlies du Mosch.
    • Le Temps.

  • Chris Tolley

    The Light Within

    Performer: Chris Tolley.
    • The Light Within.

  • Dylan John Sparkes

    Sanctimonia

    Performer: Dylan John Sparkes.
    • Sanctimonia.

  • Vince Pope

    Days End

    Performer: Vince Pope.
    • You Don't Have to Be Perfect.

  • Alfred Hill

    Piano Concerto in A Major: III. Nocturne "Homage to Chopin". Adagio con moto

    Performer: Alfred Hill. Performer: Johannes Fritzsch. Performer: Piers Lane. Orchestra: Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
    • Alfred Hill & George Boyle: Piano Concertos (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 69.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 23 Mar 2025 12:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Sunday 12:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind