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A carefully shaped journey across centuries of piano music, blending Romantic lyricism, impressionist colour, ambient minimalism, and contemporary experimental voices.

Romantic piano miniatures give way to impressionist colour and quietly radiant contemporary works, drifting across centuries, countries, and genres. From the Mediterranean lyricism of Isaac Albéniz and the serene landscapes of Amy Beach and Dora Pejačević, the programme moves through the shimmering modernism of Toru Takemitsu and the dreamlike minimalism of Harold Budd.

Produced by Áine Devaney.

A Reduced Listening production for BBC Sounds MM.

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Music Played

  • Isaac Albéniz

    Mallorca, Op. 202

    Performer: Miguel Ángel R. Laiz.
    • Albéniz: Piano Music, Vol. 8.
    • Naxos.

  • Javad Maroufi

    Kuku

    Performer: Amir Farid.
    • Amir Farid plays Javad Maroufi.
    • Move.

  • Toru Takemitsu

    Piano Pieces for Children: No. 2. Clouds

    Performer: Kotaro Fukuma.
    • Takemitsu: Piano Music.
    • Naxos.

  • Cyril Scott

    Two Pieces, Op. 47: 1. Lotus Land

    Performer: Adriano Spampanato.
    • Two Pieces, Op. 47: 1. Lotus Land.

  • A Winged Victory for the Sullen

    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, for the Earth had Circled the Sun...

    Performer: Adam Wiltzie. Performer: Dustin O’Halloran.
    • A Winged Victory for the Sullen.
    • Erased Tapes.

  • Kara‐Lis Coverdale

    In Charge of the Hour

    Performer: Kara‐Lis Coverdale.
    • A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever.
    • Smalltown Supersound.

  • Amy Beach

    Young Birches, Op. 128, No. 2

    Performer: Joanne Polk.
    • Beach: Variations on Balkan Themes Op. 60, Maria Funerale, Cadenza, Scottish Leg.

  • Takagi Masakatsu

    Marginalia #65

    Performer: Takagi Masakatsu.
    • Marginalia III.
    • Sony Records Int'l.

  • Rolando Marchesini

    Arise

    Composer: Alanna Crouch. Composer: Roshko Brothers. Performer: Rolando Marchesini. Performer: Alanna Crouch. Performer: Roshko Brothers. Performer: AlmaNova.
    • From Ashes.
    • Doorway Music.

  • Dora Pejačević

    Blumenleben, Op. 19: No. 2, Veilchen

    Performer: Nataša Veljković.
    • Pejačević: Complete Piano Works.

  • Déodat de Séverac

    Le Chant de la Terre - 1900 - I Le Labour

    Performer: Izumi Tateno.
    • Déodat de Séverac (1873-1921).

  • Habischman

    in the brittle quietude

    Performer: Carolyn Enger.
    • Resonating Earth.

  • Saloli

    Ghosts

    • Ghosts: Music For Piano Vol. 2.

  • Harold Budd

    The Room of Ancillary Dreams

    Performer: Harold Budd.
    • The Room.

  • Félicia Atkinson

    The Bay

    Performer: Félicia Atkinson.
    • The Bay.

  • Albert Karch

    For Ashikawa

    Composer: Gareth Quinn Redmond. Performer: Albert Karch. Performer: Gareth Quinn Redmond.
    • Warszawa.

  • Abdullah Ibrahim

    In-Tempo

    Performer: Abdullah Ibrahim.
    • Solotude.

  • Delphine Dora

    IV

    Performer: Delphine Dora.
    • A Stream Of Consciousness II (for piano solo).

  • Jesse Hackett

    Nocturne 5: Piano Man's Pain

    Performer: Jesse Hackett.
    • Nocturnes.

  • Volodja Brodsky

    Fogbound Streets of Maardu

    Performer: Volodja Brodsky.
    • Raindrops.

  • Coby Sey

    To

    Performer: Coby Sey.
    • Passengers.

  • Frédéric Chopin, Alexander Gadjiev, Consano Quartet & Jan Zahourek

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21: II. Larghetto [arr. for String Quintet]

    • BBC Next Gen.

  • Dylan John Sparkes

    Wholeness

    Performer: Dylan John Sparkes.
    • BBC Introducing.

  • Flo Sabeva

    Nave

    Performer: Flo Sabeva.
    • BBC Introducing.

Broadcast

  • Thu 23 Apr 202612:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind

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