Music playlist to stay focused 🌸
🎼 Classical Focus
Bach – The Well-Tempered Clavier
Bach – Goldberg Variations
Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata
Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 5 ("Emperor")
Chopin – Nocturne in E-flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2
Chopin – Ballade No. 1 in G minor
Debussy – Clair de Lune
Debussy – Reverie
Mozart – Piano Sonata No. 11 ("Alla Turca")
Mozart – Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Vivaldi – Four Seasons: Winter
Handel – Water Music
Tchaikovsky – Waltz of the Flowers
Liszt – Liebestraum No. 3
Satie – Gymnopédie No. 1
🎹 Piano / Modern Classical
Ludovico Einaudi – Nuvole Bianche
Ludovico Einaudi – Divenire
Ludovico Einaudi – Experience
Max Richter – On the Nature of Daylight
Max Richter – Written on the Sky
Ólafur Arnalds – Near Light
Ólafur Arnalds – Saman
Yann Tiersen – Comptine d’un autre été
Yiruma – River Flows in You
Yiruma – Kiss the Rain
🌌 Ambient & Chill
Brian Eno – Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Brian Eno – An Ending (Ascent)
Moby – LA7 (from Long Ambients 1)
Aphex Twin – Avril 14th
Aphex Twin – Rhubarb
Tycho – Awake
Tycho – A Walk
Jon Hopkins – Emerald Rush
Jon Hopkins – Abandon Window
Hammock – Turn Away and Return
🎧 Lo-Fi Hip Hop & Chillhop
Jinsang – Affection
Jinsang – First Wonder
Jinsang – Rain
Nujabes – Luv(sic) Part 3 (Instrumental)
Nujabes – Feather (Instrumental)
Tomppabeats – Far Away
Tomppabeats – Monday Loop
Idealism – Snowfall
Idealism – Both of Us
jinsang – Summer’s Day
🎶 Study Beats & Instrumentals
Flying Lotus – Zodiac Shit
Flying Lotus – Massage Situation
J Dilla – Nothing Like This (Instrumental)
J Dilla – Workinonit (Instrumental)
DJ Okawari – Flower Dance
DJ Okawari – Luv Letter
Bonobo – Kiara
Bonobo – Cirrus
Emancipator – Greenland
Emancipator – First Snow
🌿 Nature & Relaxed Vibes
Sigur Rós – Svefn-g-englar
Sigur Rós – Starálfur
Explosions in the Sky – Your Hand in Mine
Explosions in the Sky – First Breath After Coma
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Storm
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Moya
Balmorhea – Remembrance
Balmorhea – Settler
Helios – Bless This Morning Year
Helios – Halving the Compass
🌀 Electronic / Minimal
Four Tet – Angel Echoes
Four Tet – She Moves She
Boards of Canada – Dayvan Cowboy
Boards of Canada – Roygbiv
Kiasmos – Looped
Kiasmos – Thrown
Marconi Union – Weightless
Ulrich Schnauss – Monday - Paracetamol
Ulrich Schnauss – Goodbye
Moby – God Moving Over the Face of the Waters
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