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Piano Therapy" offers 48 original compositions designed to enhance focus, reduce anxiety, and support ADHD management. Each track combines minimalist piano structures with therapeutic frequencies (60-75 BPM) to create an optimal environment for studying, working, or relaxing

Relief in D Major Part One

This is a track we help promote because we find it pleasant! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0J7EFptNh6K6Qebrsrcx8d?si=ae32df247fdd4a1d


Idlewild

Perfect Love

Abide With Me

Petit-Poucet

62425

angst

"Intermezzo," 1969, by Jeraldine Saunders Herbison, b. 1941, USA, Piece No. 13 from Music by Black Composers, Flute Volume 1.

Created in partnership with the National Flute Association. (https://www.nfaonline.org/)

Music by Black Composers is a project of the Rachel Barton Pine Foundation. For more information, please visit www.musicbyblackcomposers.org/ and www.rbpfoundation.org/.

Dr. Paula Gudmundson, flute
Dr. Diana Shapiro, piano

Donald Schraugnagel, post-session producer and engineer

MBC Flute 1-13, Herbison - "Intermezzo" (FLUTE AND PIANO)

An Early Harvest | Everybody’s gone to the rapture

03 Yellow Einstein

Le Conservatoire de Paris est le point de départ de notre aventure. Créée en 1795, l’institution avait pour ambition de réunir en un seul lieu les compositeurs et leurs interprètes, dans le but de promouvoir la musique française. Quatre de ses représentants sont mis à l’honneur dans le présent enregistrement : d’une part, Gabriel Fauré et Claude Debussy, fers de lance de la mélodie française et de la musique impressionniste ; d’autre part, Lili Boulanger, prodige du piano, compositrice, première femme à avoir reçu le Prix de Rome en composition (1913), et Thierry Escaich, compositeur contemporain, organiste, improvisateur et pédagogue, récompensé quatre fois comme « Compositeur de l’année » aux Victoires de la musique classique.
Du statut d’élève à celui d’enseignant, les quatre compositeurs ont entretenu des liens étroits avec le Conservatoire de Paris, marquant l’histoire de cette institution. Gabriel Fauré en fut le directeur de 1905 à 1920, quinze années au cours desquelles il entreprit une restructuration profonde des enseignements. Claude Debussy y fit également ses classes, avant d’intégrer le Conseil supérieur de l’enseignement du Conservatoire, alors toujours sous la direction de Fauré. En 1909, après avoir pris des leçons de piano auprès de ce dernier, Lili Boulanger est admise au Conservatoire où elle étudie pendant trois ans au sein de la classe de composition de Paul Vidal. Marchant dans les pas de ses prédécesseurs, Thierry Escaich est lui aussi profondément lié à l’établissement : d’abord en tant qu’élève, puis comme professeur d’écriture, de composition et d’improvisation à l’orgue depuis 1992.

Claude DEBUSSY : Trio avec piano en sol majeur : III. Andante espressivo

Beautiful and evocative, "Behold The Virgin Approaching" was written for chorus and later transcribed for piano trio.  It is part of a  larger work entitled Duan Nollaig, a collection of five carols for SATB chorus and piano. 


Davidson:  Behold the Virgin Approaching

Inspired on 360. Experimenting because I can, got it?

Concierto de piano para SOÑORAS

From Baile Inolvidable, Danza Cuduro, Gasolina, Señorita, to Suavemente, Mi Gente, Pepas and finishing off with Despacito. Have you ever heard any of these on the piano? 

Piano Summer Dance Mash-Up

Key Signature: B minor
Time Signature: 3/4
Tempo: Stretto (which is fast, calculated movement like in the first and risoluto part), and Lento (here depicted with hints of rubato all over, marked by constant pauses) in short need a stern virtuoso player that knows the piece well.

The Spruce (Le Sapin in French, Granen in Swedish) is the fifth and final piece in Jean Sibelius’s Five Pieces for Piano, Op. 75, composed in 1914. These pieces, collectively known as The Trees, reflect Sibelius’s deep connection to the Finnish landscape and his affinity for nature as a source of artistic inspiration. While much of Sibelius’s fame is anchored in his large-scale orchestral works, The Spruce demonstrates his sensitivity and refinement in writing for solo piano. It features a gently flowing melodic line with subtle harmonic shifts, evoking the quiet dignity and natural grace of the evergreen tree. The piece has become one of the most frequently performed piano miniatures by Sibelius, celebrated for its lyrical charm and intimate character.

Although The Spruce is relatively simple in structure, its expressive nuance and atmospheric quality are hallmarks of Sibelius’s late-Romantic style. The piece opens with a gentle, rocking motif in the left hand that sets a calm, almost meditative tone, over which the right-hand melody unfolds with understated lyricism. Sibelius’s use of shifting tonal colors and dynamics contributes to a sense of organic growth, echoing the imagery of a tree slowly swaying in the Nordic wind. This piece, like the others in The Trees set, reveals the composer’s ability to capture emotional depth and natural beauty in a compact musical form, making it a valuable addition to the piano repertoire.

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