Peaceful Piano Moods (4CD)

Immerse yourself in the most peaceful piano music from a range of genres.
Each CD is themed around a specific time of day – morning, afternoon, evening, night
A 100-track 4-CD set features over 5 hours of calming piano pieces.
All the colours of the piano: the concert grand of course, solo piano, piano duets and piano four-hands, and the upright felted piano.

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New remastering takes the listener seamlessly through a blend of core classical works, post-classical/contemporary piano pieces and sublime arrangements of music from film and providing a continuous listening experience, dissolving genres moving you seamlessly (and unorthodoxly!), from Albéniz to Benny Andersson, via Yiruma, and back out through Chopin to Secret Garden and Luke Howard.

Includes a brand new track recorded specially for this compilation by Chad Lawson and six new tracks from rising star Van-Anh Nguyen.

Featuring over 50 outstanding soloists from Deutsche Grammophon, Decca Classics, Mercury KX and Universal Music Australia: a literal A–Z of artists from Martha Argerich to Lilya Zilberstein.

Artists include: Martha Argerich, Andrei Gavrilov, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Lang Lang, Van-Anh Nguyen, Víkingur Ólafsson, Alice Sara Ott, Maria João Pires, Mikhail Pletnev, Tamás Vásáry, Anatol Ugorski, Yuja Wang, and many more, including contemporary composers performing their own works, such as: Joep Beving, Ludovico Einaudi, Lambert, Chad Lawson, and Stephan Moccio.

TRAKC LIST

CD1 MORNING

OLA GJEILO
Before Dawn
OLA GJEILO

VANGELIS
Main Theme from ‘Missing’
(arr. Van-Anh Nguyen)
VAN-ANH NGUYEN

RICHARD RODGERS
Something Good from ‘The Sound of Music’
(arr. Van-Anh Nguyen)
VAN-ANH NGUYEN

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Ave verum corpus KV 618
MUSIC LAB COLLECTIVE

ROBERT SCHUMANN
Träumerei
(Kinderszenen op. 15)
MARTHA ARGERICH

JOHANNES BRAHMS
Intermezzo in E flat major op. 117 no. 1
LILYA ZILBERSTEIN

FRANZ LISZT
Consolation no. 3 in D flat major S.172
DANIEL BARENBOIM

JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU / VÍKINGUR ÓLAFSSON
The Arts and the Hours
VÍKINGUR ÓLAFSSON

LAMBERT
As Ballad
LAMBERT

STEPHAN MOCCIO
Earned It
STEPHAN MOCCIO

JOEP BEVING
Sleeping Lotus
JOEP BEVING

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN / ÓLAFUR ARNALDS / ALICE SARA OTT
Nocturne in G minor
ÓLAFUR ARNALDS, ALICE SARA OTT

VÍKINGUR ÓLAFSSON
For Jóhann
VÍKINGUR ÓLAFSSON

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH / VÍKINGUR ÓLAFSSON
... And at the Hour of Death
VÍKINGUR ÓLAFSSON

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Prelude no. 1 in C major BWV 846
(The Well-Tempered Clavier – Book I)
PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD

STANLEY MYERS
Cavatina from ‘The Deer Hunter’
MUSIC LAB COLLECTIVE

GABRIEL YARED
Main Title Theme from ‘The English Patient’
(arr. Van-Anh Nguyen)
VAN-ANH NGUYEN

MAURICE RAVEL
Prélude in A minor M.65
KATIA LABÈQUE

CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Arabesque no. 1
TAMÁS VÁSÁRY

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Prelude in G major op. 32 no.5
LILYA ZILBERSTEIN

FRANZ SCHUBERT
Frühlingsglaube
(arr. Franz Liszt)
BRIGITTE ENGERER

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Eroica Variations op. 35: Variation 5
ALFRED BRENDEL

GABRIEL FAURÉ
Berceuse (Dolly Suite op. 56)
KATIA & MARIELLE LABÈQUE

BENNY ANDERSSON
Tröstevisa
BENNY ANDERSSON


CD2 AFTERNOON

CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
(arr. Aloys Kontarsky for two pianos)
ALFONS & ALOYS KONTARSKY

PATRICK DOYLE
My Father’s Favourite from ‘Sense and Sensibility’
(arr. Van-Anh Nguyen)
VAN-ANH NGUYEN

CHAD LAWSON
Prelude in D major
CHAD LAWSON

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
24 Variations on ‘Venni Amore’ in D major: Variation 1
MIKHAIL PLETNEV

GEORGE GERSHWIN
Someone To Watch Over Me from Oh, Kay!
(arr. piano solo)
ANDRÉ PREVIN

GEORGE GERSHWIN
Love Walked In
(arr. Percy Grainger)
MOYE CHEN

JOHANNES BRAHMS
Paganini Variations, Book I op. 35: Variation 12
YUJA WANG

FRANZ LISZT
Pastorale (Années de pèlerinage, Première année: Suisse S.160)
LAZAR BERMAN

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Allegro (Piano Sonata in C major KV 545)
MARIA JOÃO PIRES

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Minuet no. 2 in G major WoO 10
MIKHAIL PLETNEV

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Sheep may safely graze from ‘Hunt’ Cantata BWV 208
(arr. Mary Howe for two pianos)
LUCAS & ARTHUR JUSSEN

FRANZ SCHUBERT
Moment musical no. 3 in F minor D.780
SEONG-JIN CHO

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Dance of the Four Swans from Swan Lake 1:30
(arr. Earl Wild)
BEHZOD ABDURAIMOV

SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Vision fugitive op. 22 no. 6: Con eleganza
ARSENY TARASEVICH-NIKOLAEV

EDVARD GRIEG
Butterfly (Lyric Pieces Book III op. 43 no.1)
ALICE SAR A OTT

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Étude in F minor op. 25 no. 2
JAN LISIECKI

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Étude in A flat major op. posth. (Trois Nouvelles Études)
NIKITA MAGALOFF

AGNES OBEL
September Song
(arr. Van-Anh Nguyen)
VAN-ANH NGUYEN

PHILIP GLASS
Étude no. 14
VÍKINGUR ÓLAFSSON

FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Venetian Gondola Song
(Songs without Words op. 19 no.6)
JAN LISIECKI

YANN TIERSEN
La Valse d’Amélie
IRIS HOND

RUI MASSENA
Valsa 4:06
RUI MASSENA

SOPHIE HUTCHINGS
A Small Kind of Revival
SOPHIE HUTCHINGS

STEPHAN MOCCIO
Winter Waltz
STEPHAN MOCCIO

EDVARD GRIEG
Notturno (Lyric Pieces Book V op. 54 no. 4)
ALICE SARA OTT

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Lilacs op. 21 no. 5 (transc. Rachmaninoff)
SERGEI BABAYAN

CD3 EVENING

EDVARD GRIEG
Summer Evening (Lyric Pieces Book X op. 71 no. 2)
ANDREI GAVRILOV

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Moment Musical in D flat major op. 16 no. 5
LAZAR BERMAN

FRANZ SCHUBERT
Impromptu in G flat major op. 90 (D.899) no. 3
ANDREI GAVRILOV

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Bagatelle in A minor WoO 59 ‘Für Elise’
ANATOL UGORSKI

JOHANNES BRAHMS
Waltz in A major op. 39 no. 5 for piano duet
ALFONS & ALOYS KONTARSKY

FRANZ LISZT
Consolation no.1 in E major S.172
DANIEL BARENBOIM

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Bagatelle in A major op. 33 no. 4
MIKHAIL PLETNEV

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Largo in E flat major op. posth.
ANATOL UGORSKI

MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Promenade II (Pictures at an Exhibition)
IVO POGORELICH

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
from Nutcracker Suite op. 71a
(arr. Mikhail Pletnev for piano four-hands)
MARTHA ARGERICH, NICOLAS ECONOMOU

JOHANNES BRAHMS
Waltz in D minor op. 39 no. 9 for piano duet
ALFONS & ALOYS KONTARSKY

DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Sonata in D minor Kk 9
IVO POGORELICH

CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Page d’album (Pour l’oeuvre du Vêtement du Blessé)
ZOLTÁN KOCSIS

ROBERT SCHUMANN
Vogel als Prophet (Waldszenen op. 82 no. 7)
MARIA JOÃO PIRES

ISAAC ALBÉNIZ
Tango op. 165 no. 2
(arr. Leopold Godowsky)
SHURA CHERKASSKY

BENNY ANDERSSON
The Day Before You Came
BENNY ANDERSSON

YIRUMA
River Flows In You
MUSIC LAB COLLECTIVE

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Waltz in A minor op. posth.
ALICE SARA OTT

SECRET GARDEN
Song from A Secret Garden
ROLF LØVLAND

LUKE HOWARD
In Metaphor, Solace
LUKE HOWARD

STEPHAN MOCCIO
Sea Change
STEPHAN MOCCIO

LUDOVICO EINAUDI
ABC
LUDOVICO EINAUDI

JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON
Dressing Up from ‘Personal Effects’
JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON

MAX RICHTER
H in New England
MAX RICHTER

CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Prélude Book II no.5 ‘Bruyères’
VÍKINGUR ÓLAFSSON

STEPHAN MOCCIO
Fracture
STEPHAN MOCCIO

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria
ANDREI GAVRILOV

BENNY ANDERSSON
Chess
BENNY ANDERSSON

CD4 NIGHT

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Nocturne no. 20 in C sharp minor op. posth.
MARIA JOÃO PIRES

CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
Mélodie dell’Orfeo from Orfeo ed Euridice
(arr. Giovanni Sgambati)
YUJA WANG

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Sonatina: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106
(transc. for piano four-hands by György Kurtág)
VÍKINGUR ÓLAFSSON, HALLA ODDNŸ MAGNÚSDÓTTIR

SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Vision fugitive op. 22 no. 7: Pittoresco
ARSENY TARASEVICH-NIKOLAEV

EDVARD GRIEG
Solveig’s Song (Peer Gynt)
ALICE SARA OTT

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Chorale Prelude: Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639
(transc. Ferruccio Busoni)
VÍKINGUR ÓLAFSSON

JOHANNES BRAHMS
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel op. 24:
Variation 5
ANATOL UGORSKI

DARIO MARINANELLI
One Of Them from ‘Darkest Hour’
VÍKINGUR ÓLAFSSON

PHILIP GLASS
Opening from ‘Glassworks’
VÍKINGUR ÓLAFSSON

MAX RICHTER
The Departure
LANG LANG

OLA GJEILO
Winter
OLA GJEILO

STEPHAN MOCCIO
Wrecking Ball
STEPHAN MOCCIO

JOEP BEVING
Ab Ovo
JOEP BEVING

AGNES OBEL
Roscian
AGNES OBEL

ERIK SATIE / VIVIAN ROOS
Gymnopédie no. 2
(Vivian Roost rework)
VIVIAN ROOST

VANGELIS
Main Theme from ‘Chariots of Fire’
VANGELIS

JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON
Linda and Walter from ‘Personal Effects’
JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON

JEAN-MICHEL BLAIS
La Solitude from ‘Matthias and Maxime’
JEAN-MICHEL BLAIS

JOHN CAGE
In a Landscape
FRANCESCO TRISTANO

MAX RICHTER
Dream Solo
MAX RICHTER

JACOB MÜHLRAD
Sea Report Chorus
JACOB MÜHLRAD, JOEL LYSSARIDES

CHAD LAWSON
Of Twilight Skies
CHAD LAWSON