quiet instrumental songs for reading in bed or falling asleep (picture: "Ophelia" by Friedrich Heyser)

classical music to study or sleep to

Prélude d'une nuit d'automne

Suzzallo Library

The Gymnopédies, published in Paris starting in 1888, are three piano compositions written by French composer and pianist Erik Satie.

The melodies of the pieces use deliberate, but mild, dissonances against the harmony, producing a piquant, melancholy effect that matches the performance instructions, which are to play each piece "painfully", "sadly" or "gravely".

Audius Classical Music
https://audius.co/classicalmusic

Best of Satie
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/gymnopedie-no-1-single/847714522

Satie on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/0vzKMInu4PzU2Qyi6NgmRK

Satie Album on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Erik-Satie-Essential-Collection/dp/B00J0LBFIG/

Erik Satie - The Essential Collection

Classical Music - The Essential Collection

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Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1

The days are getting shorter
A North wind blows outside
I light my cosy fire and get ready for the change
Autumn is finally coming 🍂🌬️

Autumn Intro

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Flume

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Camille Saint-Saëns : Carnival Of The Animals - XIII. The Swan (Arr. for Piano by 임수정)

Una Mattina

cottagecore

the swan (reimagined)

Cozy Season

Library Poets

Simple Life

‘Bedroom Sessions’ is a 25-track compilation of demo recordings by Lau Kid, spanning from 2019 to 2024. This unofficial release showcases unreleased material from the project's archive—lo-fi, emotionally raw, and sonically diverse. A final look into the creative process behind Lau Kid before the project's closure.

Bandcamp

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Deep explorations through different feelings 

Spatial Awareness

Kobe Dupree - Garden Opus 23

Thirteen miniature journeys, each a complete world in ninety seconds.

In this new album, Samuel Hamish Gray continues his exploration of spontaneous composition — music created entirely in the moment, unpremeditated yet intricately formed. Each piece was conceived, performed, and completed in a single take, bound only by one strict parameter: a duration of exactly one minute and thirty seconds.

Within that constraint lies astonishing freedom. The result is thirteen concise piano works — cinematic, lyrical, sometimes fragile, sometimes dramatic — each a distilled emotional narrative. Gray’s playing moves from shimmering introspection to bold, cinematic resonance, his improvisations sculpted by instinct and refined by long experience in both classical and jazz idioms.

Listeners familiar with his Sirius Suite (2025), a meditation on loss and love, will recognize the same immediacy and tenderness, but here the focus is on compression: each piece a single breath, a fleeting vision, a self-contained journey.

Gray is known for his fully spontaneous solo piano performances in Norway, New Zealand, and beyond, and for his forthcoming long-form work Norgesvenn (2026), recorded as one continuous arc. These new miniatures reveal another side of his artistry — concise, pure, and perfectly balanced between composition and improvisation.

Perfect for reflective playlists, film and documentary use, or simply quiet listening, each piece can stand alone, loop seamlessly, or fade into thought — small universes of sound, carved from silence.

Untitled XI

In the Wind

The Mercy of the Wind

Preludes, Book 1 - Streams

Ballerina

The French Library

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Prélude d'une nuit d'automne

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