Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Some days, you don't want to be cheered up. You just want music that sits with you, quiet, unhurried, and honest. This playlist is for those moments: the grey Mondays, the late nights, the afternoons when your thoughts need somewhere to go.
From the still weight of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata to the fragile ache of Barber's Adagio for Strings, from Chopin's C-sharp minor Nocturne to Tchaikovsky's Élégie, these pieces don't try to fix anything. They just listen.
Put this on, let your mind wander, and let the music do the rest.

Tracklist:

00:00:00 Tchaikovsky - 6 Pieces, Op. 19: No. 4 in C-sharp minor, Nocturne
Vadim Chaimovich

00:04:18 Rachmaninoff - 14 Romances, Op. 34: No. 14, Vocalise (Arr. for Solo Piano by Zoltán Kocsis)
Pierpaola Porqueddu

00:07:48 Field - Nocturne in E minor, H 46 (Melancolie)
00:11:49 Gluck - Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30: "Melody" (Arr. for Piano Solo by Alexander Siloti)
Vadim Chaimovich

00:15:50 Grieg - Lyric Pieces, Op. 12: No. 5, Folk Song
00:17:15 Mendelssohn - Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 30: 6. Venetianisches Gondellied, Allegretto tranquillo
Angelo Martino

00:21:03 Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 "Moonlight Sonata": I. Adagio sostenuto
Giovanni Umberto Battel

00:27:41 Chopin - Nocturne in C-sharp minor, B. 49 (Transcr. for Violin and Piano by N. Milstein)
Alessandro Clerici, Elena Brunello

00:31:52 Fauré - Sonata For Violin And Piano No. 1, Op. 13, in A Major: II. Andante
Georg Mönch, Massimiliano Damerini

00:40:32 Shostakovich - 5 Pieces for 2 Violins and Piano: No. 1, Prelude (Transcr. for 2 Cellos and Piano by Patricia De Carli)
Mr & Mrs Cello, Jonathan Floril

Bach - Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067:
00:43:48 III. Sarabande
00:46:47 VI. Menuet
Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, Giuseppe Lanzetta, Andreas Blau

00:48:03 Grieg - Holberg Suite, Op. 40: IV. Air
Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, Giuseppe Lanzetta

00:52:40 Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48: III. Élégie
Giuseppe Lanzetta, Orchestra Sinfonica di Aachen

01:02:10 Bach - 15 Inventions, BWV 772-786: No. 9 in F minor (Arr. for Two Cellos)
Mr & Mrs Cello

01:04:17 Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 4, in G Major, Op. 58: II. Andante con moto
Kiev Chamber Orchestra, Roman Kofman, Galina Vracheva

01:09:23 Mendelssohn - Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 67: 5. Moderato
01:11:38 Grieg - Lyric Pieces, Op. 43: No. 2, Solitary Traveler
Angelo Martino

01:13:34 Bach - Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 (Busoni Ferrucci)
01:17:25 Bach - Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 (Busoni Ferrucci)
Pietro Spada

01:20:42 Mendelssohn - Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 67: 2, Allegro leggiero
01:23:35 Grieg - Lyric Pieces, Op. 68: No. 6, Valse mélancolique
Angelo Martino

01:27:07 Fauré - Elegy, Op. 24
Massimiliano Martinelli, Jonathan Floril

Litvinovsky - Pelléas and Mélisande:
01:33:44 IV. La grotte. Lac souterrain
01:37:42 V. Procession du crepuscule
01:40:24 VI. Ballade. Les trois sœurs aveugles (Ballad. Three blind sisters)
01:43:32 XII. Mort de Mélisande
Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov

01:47:09 Nielsen - Suite for Strings: I. Präludium
Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, Giuseppe Lanzetta

01:50:49 Dvořák - Serenade For Strings, in E Major, Op. 22: II. Tempo di Valse
Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, Agnieszka Duczmal

01:57:02 Bach - 15 Inventions, BWV 772-786: No. 7 in E minor (Arr. for Two Cellos)
Mr & Mrs Cello

01:59:35 Barber - Adagio for Strings, in B-flat minor
Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, Giuseppe Lanzetta

02:06:40 Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 4, Op. 90 "Italian": II. Andante con moto
Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, Giuseppe Lanzetta, Bruno Canino

02:13:19 Chopin - Études, Op. 25: No. 7 in C-sharp minor, “Cello” (Arr. for Cello and Piano by A. Glazunov)
02:19:30 Rachmaninoff - Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3: No. 1, Elegie
Massimiliano Martinelli, Jonathan Floril

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