Slow Strings & Soft Piano for a Long Winter Evening | 2.5 Hours of Calm Classical

A fire in the hearth, the light going early, and two and a half hours of slow, gentle classical music for a long winter evening. Quiet string quartet slow movements alternate with soft piano nocturnes, preludes and small miniatures - nothing loud, nothing hurried, soft all the way through. For reading, resting, winding down or falling asleep. PROGRAM 0:00:00 Haydn - String Quartet in D major 'The Lark', Op. 64 No. 5: II. Adagio cantabile 0:04:53 Chopin - Nocturne in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 0:09:27 Bach - Prelude No. 1 in C major, Well-Tempered Clavier Book I 0:12:12 Chopin - Largo in E flat major, B. 109 0:14:28 Mozart - String Quartet No. 19 in C major 'Dissonance', K. 465: II. Andante cantabile 0:22:11 Chopin - Nocturne in F sharp major, Op. 15 No. 2 0:26:17 Borodin - String Quartet No. 2 in D major: III. Notturno. Andante 0:35:27 Chopin - Nocturne in B major, Op. 32 No. 1 0:40:30 Bach - Prelude No. 8 in E flat minor, Well-Tempered Clavier Book I 0:44:30 Dvorak - String Quartet No. 12 in F major 'American', Op. 96: II. Lento 0:52:23 Chopin - Nocturne in G major, Op. 37 No. 2 0:58:37 Chopin - Cantabile in B flat major, B. 84 0:59:41 Beethoven - String Quartet No. 6 in B flat major, Op. 18 No. 6: II. Adagio ma non troppo 1:06:45 Chopin - Nocturne in E major, Op. 62 No. 2 1:12:26 Bach - Prelude No. 12 in F minor, Well-Tempered Clavier Book I 1:15:21 Dvorak - String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major, Op. 51: III. Romanza. Andante con moto 1:21:30 Chopin - Nocturne in B major, Op. 62 No. 1 1:27:52 Chopin - Andantino 'Spring', B. 117 1:29:21 Mozart - String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K. 421: II. Andante 1:34:38 Chopin - Nocturne in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2 1:40:58 Bach - Prelude No. 22 in B flat minor, Well-Tempered Clavier Book I 1:43:27 Borodin - String Quartet No. 1 in A major: II. Andante con moto 1:52:07 Chopin - Nocturne in E flat major, Op. 55 No. 2 1:57:19 Chopin - Nocturne in C minor, B. 108 2:00:34 Chopin - Albumleaf in E major 2:02:11 Mendelssohn - String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80: III. Adagio 2:10:19 Chopin - Nocturne in C sharp minor 'Lento con gran espressione', B. 49 2:14:06 Bach - Prelude No. 24 in B minor, Well-Tempered Clavier Book I 2:16:37 Suk - Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale 'St. Wenceslas', Op. 35a 2:23:24 Chopin - Nocturne in E minor, Op. 72 No. 1 2:27:59 Chopin - Nocturne in G minor, Op. 15 No. 3 Total running time: 2 hours 31 min, 31 tracks, uninterrupted. RECORDINGS All compositions are in the public domain. Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I performed by Kimiko Ishizaka, released CC0: archive.org/details/bach-well-tempered-clavier-book-1 Chopin performed by Musopen pianists, from Musopen's complete Chopin recordings, released CC0: archive.org/details/musopen-chopin-complete-works-flac Recorded for the Musopen Kickstarter Project (2012) and released under the Public Domain Mark 1.0: archive.org/details/MusopenCollectionAsFlac (string quartets: Musopen String Quartet; Schubert sonatas: Paul Pitman, piano) Thank you to Musopen and to every musician who recorded and freely released these performances. The Calm Classics - public domain classical recordings for studying, focus, reading and sleep. No talking, no ads mid-video, just the music. Subscribe for a new long-form classical set every three days. #calmclassical #winter #relaxingmusic