Misty Mountain Morning | Classical Piano for Coffee & Reading

A quiet lake beneath mist-covered mountains. A little space before the day begins. Pour a coffee, open your book, and settle into piano music by Satie, Bach and Debussy. The landscape stays still while small animated birds pass through the sky. There is no narration or added nature soundtrack. This 86:55 selection contains 10 complete performances, repeated in three clearly marked rounds. The order moves between Satie's spacious phrases, Bach's flowing lines and Debussy's changing light. We chose a restrained piano programme for slow mornings and reading, while keeping the natural expression and dynamic changes of each performance. TRACKLIST — all three rounds 00:00:00 Round 1 | Erik Satie — Gymnopedie No. 1 00:03:05 Round 1 | J. S. Bach — Prelude in C major, BWV 846 00:05:49 Round 1 | J. S. Bach — Prelude in E major, BWV 854 00:07:35 Round 1 | Erik Satie — Gymnopedie No. 2 00:10:16 Round 1 | Claude Debussy — Clair de lune 00:15:21 Round 1 | J. S. Bach — Prelude in F-sharp major, BWV 858 00:17:03 Round 1 | J. S. Bach — Prelude in C-sharp minor, BWV 849 00:20:03 Round 1 | Erik Satie — Gymnopedie No. 3 00:22:29 Round 1 | J. S. Bach — Prelude in E-flat minor, BWV 853 00:26:29 Round 1 | J. S. Bach — Prelude in B minor, BWV 869 TRACKLIST — ROUND 2 28:58 Erik Satie — Gymnopedie No. 1 32:03 J. S. Bach — Prelude in C major, BWV 846 34:48 J. S. Bach — Prelude in E major, BWV 854 36:34 Erik Satie — Gymnopedie No. 2 39:14 Claude Debussy — Clair de lune 44:20 J. S. Bach — Prelude in F-sharp major, BWV 858 46:02 J. S. Bach — Prelude in C-sharp minor, BWV 849 49:01 Erik Satie — Gymnopedie No. 3 51:28 J. S. Bach — Prelude in E-flat minor, BWV 853 55:28 J. S. Bach — Prelude in B minor, BWV 869 TRACKLIST — ROUND 3 57:57 Erik Satie — Gymnopedie No. 1 01:01:02 J. S. Bach — Prelude in C major, BWV 846 01:03:47 J. S. Bach — Prelude in E major, BWV 854 01:05:33 Erik Satie — Gymnopedie No. 2 01:08:13 Claude Debussy — Clair de lune 01:13:19 J. S. Bach — Prelude in F-sharp major, BWV 858 01:15:00 J. S. Bach — Prelude in C-sharp minor, BWV 849 01:18:00 Erik Satie — Gymnopedie No. 3 01:20:27 J. S. Bach — Prelude in E-flat minor, BWV 853 01:24:26 J. S. Bach — Prelude in B minor, BWV 869 PERFORMANCES & RECORDING CREDITS Original compositions by Erik Satie, Johann Sebastian Bach and Claude Debussy. These are recordings by the credited musicians, not performances by this channel. Satie — Gymnopedie No. 1: Piano by Robin Alciatore; public-domain dedication, shared via Musopen and Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Er... Bach — Preludes BWV 846, 854, 858, 849, 853 and 869: Piano by Kimiko Ishizaka, Open Well-Tempered Clavier (2015). Recordings released under CC0 1.0. https://www.welltemperedclavier.org/ https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/z... Satie — Gymnopedies No. 2 and No. 3: Arrangements and performances by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free... https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Debussy — Clair de lune: Piano by Laurens Goedhart (2011), recording licensed under CC BY 3.0. https://soundcloud.com/laurensgoedhart/cla... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Audio edits: gain adjustment, short fades and pauses, sequencing and synchronization. Music recording rights remain subject to the licenses above. VISUALS Licensed still photograph: Andreas Schnabl / Pexels. https://www.pexels.com/photo/misty-mountai... Pexels License: https://www.pexels.com/license/ Bird animation and visual layout created for this video. This is an animated composition over a photograph, not live footage of birds at this location. Which piece would you return to with your next cup of coffee? #ClassicalMusic #ClassicalPiano #MorningMusic