Relaxing Piano Music

I relax to Chopin Nocturnes as well as Satie they do it for me anyway. i find the piano a very relaxing instrument.

Binah
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Hi Kate,

I also love Chopin and find some of his music so relaxing and soothing ~ I find myself just drifting off!
I used to play some of his music on the piano and loved it ~ alas, some time ago & a bit rusty now! .
Debussy created some great music too as I remember from my studies !

Hope you find something really nice!

Hello Everybody,

I am new to this forum, I am from London. I was wondering if anyone knows good relaxing Piano music. I do like a lot of classical stuff such as satie and debussy but always on the look for new material, would be great to be enlightened! 🙂

Kate

Hi Kate

Welcome to HP - great forum!

I love piano music too, mostly Bach and Beethoven, but anything which is gentle and soothing. Sati is great - need to discover some more pieces though.

All the best

Caroline

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is beautiful - very relaxing indeed its almost hypnotic.

I do however have a very accomplished pianist within the household to play the piano and serenade me with the guitar, lucky ole me.

Binah
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Thanks to you all

Many thanks for all your replies, that was quick. I will look into your tips, I am always looking for contemporary composers in the same genre so I keep you posted in case I have discovered something.

By the way, Schuhmann did write some good stuff too.

🙂

Kate

Apart from the classics already mentioned, I find Einaudi's piano music extremely relaxing and beautiful - some pieces are simple and repetitive tunes, but literally entrancing, and even though I've not tried meditating to them, I think they could be perfect.

Masha

Just don't read too much about Chopin because you'll never listen to the Preludes in the same way again if you do.

As a pianist, I'd recommend Satie, Alkan, Liszt, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Gounod, basically the romantic era composers. Don't go too much for the classical (too technical) or baroque (too fiddly) composers. You want music to relax with, not music to think about.

Hope that helps.

New relaxing Classical - BW Recknagel

Hi all,

thanks for pointing towards Gonoud, never heard of him but thats not a surprise since there is plenty to discover. a friend of mine pointed me towards this new classical composer BW Recknagel and his Album "Nihilum", it stunning stuff, very deep and dark in many of the tunes, check it out

would be nice to hear more contemporay composers writing like this, i shall keep searching..

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Kate

Try some Erik Satie...