PEACEFUL PIANO MOODS

Immerse yourself in this genre-dissolving compilation – a seamless blend of classical and contemporary piano repertoire carefully curated to provide continuous and calm listening as you journey through the four times of day: morning, afternoon, evening and night. 

The fascinating track list presents the piano across all its many colours: the concert grand piano of course with solo piano, piano duet and four-hand pieces, but also the upright felted piano. With gaps carefully positioned, the listener is led seamlessly through a blend of older and contemporary piano pieces including new compositions and arrangements of music from film. Unorthodoxly dissolving genres the music moves seamlessly from Albéniz via Yiruma to Benny Andersson, and back out through Chopin, Beethoven and Brahms to Secret Garden and Luke Howard.

As a set across 4CDs and also available to stream, the album features over 50 outstanding soloists from across Deutsche Grammophon and its sister labels in 5 hours of music. The four parts are also offered as individual digital albums extending beyond the original album to a total of 195 tracks and more than 11 hours of music. 

The extraordinary breadth of artists featured includes Martha Argerich, Alfred Brendel, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Lang Lang, Van-Anh Nguyen, Víkingur Ólafsson, Alice Sara Ott, Maria João Pires, Yuja Wang, and many more, and includes contemporary composers performing their own works, such as Joep Beving, Ludovico Einaudi, Lambert, Chad Lawson and Stephan Moccio.

Several tracks receive world premieres on this set, including a new track especially composed for this set by Chad Lawson and six new tracks from rising star Van-Anh Nguyen.