Peter Sculthorpe: Nocturne 1945 Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano) Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude in C major, BWV846, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 Michael Kieran Harvey (piano) Ĭharlie Chaplin: A King in New York Roger Woodward (piano) 1 Stephanie McCallum (piano) Įrnő Dohnányi: Pastorale (Hungarian Christmas Song) Stephanie McCallum (piano) Įnnio Morricone: Cinema Paradiso Roger Woodward (piano) Music for Wellbeing: Calm with Solo Piano playlistĮrik Satie: Gymnopédies for piano, No. Greta Bradman is a soprano, Registered Psychologist and ABC Classic presenter. Whilst it may feel like a luxury, this is one of the greatest investments you can make towards the year ahead. No matter where things are for you, what your age or situation, on this day, allow Calm with Solo Piano to help you decompress and just ‘be’ for a while. Your decision making will be improved too. Other avenues and aspects of the present moment will open up before you.

You’ll be less buffeted around by a sense of needing to fight or run from the tiger. Your heartrate, blood pressure, and breathing rate can all lower and you may experience thoughts slowing and an ability to think more reflectively, strategically, constructively than when you are constantly scanning for threats. It can help you shift towards a state of ‘rest and digest’. Calming music can help with this.Ĭlassical solo piano music is known to bring about feelings of calm. For the sake of avoiding burnout and problems associated with chronic stress, finding healthy ways of relaxing - stepping away from our tigers for a time – is really important. In so doing, we don’t allow ourselves moments to unhook and our body a chance to unwind and relax. But these days, our ‘tigers’ tend to be more ubiquitous objects of our mind – we imagine the tigers from our work, or our world beyond the present moment as though the tigers really are right there with us. Once upon a time when there were real tigers lurking in the bushes nearby, continually scanning for tigery threats likely did keep us safe. Either way, we hunker down to keep a look-out for or fend off the metaphorical tiger (i.e., feeling of impending doom, or stress) lurking in the shadows of our mind. When we’re stressed, we tend to go looking for mood-congruent music that keeps us on high alert that or we retreat inwards and turn off the music altogether. We tend toward homeostasis or equilibrium between our thoughts and our feelings. One reflection from clinical practice, to remind you of a common inclination amongst us humans. And in Calm with Solo Piano you have over four hours of calming solo piano music especially chosen for you to bring relaxation into your world, your body, and your mind, any time you need. Certainly the upswing in brain imaging research has led to a greater empirical appreciation of just how extraordinary classical music can be as a 100% natural remedy to bring calm and a sense of peace to a busy mind. The research is not new and as Music for Wellbeing is delving into before it is abundant. So much so that calming music can even reduce the need for sedation and pain relief pre- and post-operatively. Indeed, there is a plethora of research from medicine, neuroscience, psychology and music therapy that shows certain classical music has a remarkable capacity to promote relaxation and post-operative healing and reduce the perception of pain. In independent research, ophthalmologist Dr Jorge Camara found that classical piano music had a substantial calming effect on patients undergoing eye surgery their blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing rate were all significantly lower and slower than patients who did not listen to classical piano music. When asked what brain waves sounded like once mapped out and transcribed in this way, Mindlin replied that they “sound like classical piano music.” And calm they provided. When neuro-psychiatrist Dr Galina Mindlin from the Brain Music Therapy Center in New York City and her team mapped brain waves and transcribed them into musical form, she did so in order to harness their properties to bring about calm and relaxation. Registered Psychologist Greta Bradman has put together this playlist of calming piano music. Welcome to four and a half hours of glorious solo classical piano music designed to help you calm, relax, regroup, and refresh for the year ahead.

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