Various Artists
101 Peaceful Piano (5CD)
The best Classical piano music to relax and unwind.
Let the beauty of the piano carry you away to a world of blissful tranquillity and pure calm. This 5CD collection brings together soothing favourites by Ravel, Debussy, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Mendelssohn and so many more: Satie’s Gymnopédies, Beethoven’s Für Elise and Moonlight Sonata, Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel, Grieg’s Morning Mood from Peer Gynt, Sculthorpe’s Left Bank Waltz, as well as classics from the silver screen, including Amélie, Cinema Paradiso and East of Eden.
Performed by Australia’s finest pianists, this is the perfect album for smoothing away the wrinkles of the day and enjoying the delights that only music can bring.
TRACK LIST
CD1
- BLAKE The Snowman: Walking in the Air
- BARTSCH / HOWARD And Until Tomorrow
- BLAKE Berceuse
- KATS-CHERNIN Eliza Aria
- ALLAN The Dean Brig o’ Edinburgh
- AGNEW An Autumn Morning
- RAVEL Pavane for a Dead Princess
- FAURÉ Sicilienne
- BACH Sheep May Safely Graze
- SATIE Gymnopédie No. 2
- MOZART Variation No. 5 on Willem van Nassau
- ALBINONI Oboe Concerto in D minor: Adagio
- CHOPIN Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 69 No. 1
- POULENC Novelette in C major
- GRAINGER Bridal Lullaby
- BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 25: Andante
- TCHAIKOVSKY Mamma
- TRAD The Cliffs of Moher
- BLAKE Isabelle
- SCULTHORPE Evocation
- MEDTNER Eight Mood Pictures: Prologue
CD2
- BEETHOVEN Für Elise
- SCULTHORPE Nocturne No. 1
- DEBUSSY Veils
- TCHAIKOVSKY Evening Reverie
- BRAHMS Lullaby
- MENDELSSOHN On Wing of Song
- CHOPIN Berceuse
- TRAD/GRAINGER The Sussex Mummers’ Christmas Carol
- SKRYABIN Étude in F-sharp major, Op. 42 No. 4
- SIBELIUS Berceuse
- BRAHMS Intermezzo in B minor, Op. 119 No. 1
- MARCELLO/BACH Oboe Concerto in D minor: Adagio
- TCHAIKOVSKY The Lark’s Song
- GOULD Calm
- SCHUMANN Piano Sonata No. 2: Andantino
- SCHUMANN Scenes from Childhood: Träumerei
- SUK Idyll
- BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 1: Adagio
- BACH Flute Sonata No. 2: Siciliano
- TRAD All Through the Night
CD3
- DEBUSSY Clair de lune
- GRIEG Morning Mood
- ROWLAND The Man from Snowy River: Jessica’s Theme
- TRAD Amazing Grace
- FLUME Never Be Like You
- MILEY Wrecking Ball
- EDWARDS A Flight of Sunbirds: Poco lento
- EDWARDS: A Flight of Sunbirds: Andante con moto
- TIERSEN Amélie: The Argument
- ROTA Romeo and Juliet: Love Theme
- CHAPLIN Mandolin Serenade
- VINE Love Me Sweet
- BARTSCH Here I Am, Just for You
- KATS-CHERNIN Butterflying
- BACH/HESS Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
- BIEBER Sorry
- THE KNIFE Heartbeats
- BARTSCH Rockabye
- ISAACS Barcarolle
- GERSHWIN Prelude No. 2
CD4
- BACH Prelude No. 1 in C major
- SCULTHORPE Little Serenade
- SCHUMANN Melody
- GOULD Quiet
- LISZT Andantino, S.192 No. 4
- VAVILOV Ave Maria
- BACH Actus Tragicus: Sonatina
- RACHMANINOFF Musical Moment No. 1
- BLAKE Make-Believe
- BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata in E-flat major, WoO47 No. 1: Andante
- TRAD Valse Frontenac
- VASKS White Scenery
- TCHAIKOVSKY October: Autumn Song
- HILL One Came Fluting
- MOZART Sonatina in G major
- PEZOLD Minuet in G minor
- PÄRT Für Anna Maria
- HUTCHENS Lullaby
- BACH Sleepers, Wake
- SABOLY Touro-Louro-Louro
CD5
- BEYONCÉ Halo
- NYMAN The Piano: Big My Secret
- BEETHOVEN Moonlight Sonata: Adagio sostenuto
- DEBUSSY The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
- TIERSEN Amélie: Nursery Rhyme from Another Summer
- LISZT Consolation No. 3
- GLASS Opening
- THE XX Islands
- DUDLEY Poldark: Theme
- CHOPIN Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9 No. 2
- KATS-CHERNIN The Rain Puzzle
- ROWLAND The Man from Snowy River: Tom Fool’s Knot
- VANGELIS Missing: Main Theme
- BRAHMS Intermezzo in A major, Op. 118 No. 2
- SCULTHORPE Left Bank Waltz
- PÄRT Spiegel im Spiegel
- KATS-CHERNIN All Things Conspire
- ROSENMAN East of Eden: Main Theme
- SATIE Gymnopédie No. 1
- MORRICONE Cinema Paradiso: Main Theme