Relaxing piano music recommendations?

[v0rtex]

Philip Glass - Solo Piano

 

[Violinist]

Originally Posted by imageWIS

Must every thread on SF derail?

Because I can't study to Schubert's 8th Symphony or Tchaikovsky PathÃ

tique. I was purposely looking for study music...the music in this case is a means to an end.

As well, wasn't a not insignificant sum of classical music composed as background music for other affairs, such as dinner and parties?

Jon.

If you can study to music, then it isn't any good.

Well, most yuppies like Haydn quartets a lot, they should work for your purposes.

Personally I don't see how anyone could study listening to Debussy's piano music, but whatever.

 

[crease]

Satie is a great choice.

I'd also recommend:
- the Beethoven piano sonatas (No. 7, Appassionata, Hammerklavier etc.)
- the Goldberg Variations
- Jimmy Smith (funky organ music)

And depending on the type of studying, check out Liszt's Transcendental Etudes. Though, listening to Mazeppa may make you clench your pencil and tear through your paper...

 

[LabelKing]

 

[imageWIS]

Originally Posted by Violinist

If you can study to music, then it isn't any good.

Well, most yuppies like Haydn quartets a lot, they should work for your purposes.

Personally I don't see how anyone could study listening to Debussy's piano music, but whatever.

I don't know how you arrived at your conclusion, but I stress again that it's a form of multitasking. Your perceptions of music aren't indicative of someone else's and vice versa.

Jon.

 

[Countertenor]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

 

[Countertenor]

Originally Posted by Violinist

If you can study to music, then it isn't any good.

Well, most yuppies like Haydn quartets a lot, they should work for your purposes.

Personally I don't see how anyone could study listening to Debussy's piano music, but whatever.

Originally Posted by imageWIS

I don't know how you arrived at your conclusion, but I stress again that it's a form of multitasking. Your perceptions of music aren't indicative of someone else's and vice versa.

Jon.

I'm with Violinist.

 

[imageWIS]

Originally Posted by Countertenor

I'm with Violinist.

And that's fine; it's obviously a difference of opinion, which is wholly understandable. But some of us (as proof by other posters on this thread) have no problem with listening to good music and studying at the same time.

Jon.

 

[Mr. Checks]

Originally Posted by imageWIS

I am though, it's just as background, but it has to be smooth enough to let me multitask in peace.

Jon.

Yeah, it's designed for that, and the performers and pieces are legit.

I'm buying the Callas 100-song set today.

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by Violinist

It's incredibly depressing to me as a classical musician that many people find "classical music" relaxing, and like to play it in the background at dinner or while studying. No one would put Kandinsky or Caravaggio in a walk in closet, I don't understand why they do the equivalent with music.
Especially when the Kandinsky is painted on both sides.

 

[imageWIS]

Originally Posted by RJman

Especially when the Kandinsky is painted on both sides.

Jon.

 

[65535]

Working late on Catia, the biggest POS of all the CAD?CAM packages, I like listening to SomaFM Drone Zone. No beats, so it is not distracting, and kills the silence that would overwhelm me

 

[pauliodotnet]

classical music is great

 

[romafan]

Originally Posted by Violinist

It's incredibly depressing to me as a classical musician that many people find "classical music" relaxing, and like to play it in the background at dinner or while studying. No one would put Kandinsky or Caravaggio in a walk in closet, I don't understand why they do the equivalent with music.

I like it for napping.

Originally Posted by Violinist

If you can study to music, then it isn't any good.

Well, most yuppies like Haydn quartets a lot, they should work for your purposes.

Personally I don't see how anyone could study listening to Debussy's piano music, but whatever.

Do yuppies study?

 

[Violinist]

Originally Posted by romafan

I like it for napping.



Do yuppies study?

Of course they did, all the woman yuppies had to get their real estate licenses.