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[tedtropy]

Lately I've been listening to a local FM radio station that plays classical music when I'm trying to fall asleep. I listen to it at a pretty light volume and I find it tends to help me konk out quicker. The problem is, there's no consistent themes in what they play. One moment, I'll be relaxing to a really nice light piece, and then the next one will be a really upbeat fanfare or similar. What I'm looking for are some recommendations for composers or CDs in general that feature really sedated, light classical music. I don't pretend to know anything about the genre, I just like to listen to the stuff when I'm going to sleep and occasionally when eating dinner. So give me a cultural injection GAF. I thank you kindly.

 

[Tarazet]

I'd recommend listening to some music by the French late-Romantic Gabriel Faure (pronounced fah ray). His work is gentle, very subtle, shy, and elegant. It really grows on you with repeated listenings, too. Especially check out the thirteen Barcarolles.

 

[tedtropy]

I'd recommend listening to some music by the French late-Romantic Gabriel Faure (pronounced fah ray). His work is gentle, very subtle, shy, and elegant. It really grows on you with repeated listenings, too. Especially check out the Barcarolles.

Sounds like it's exactly what I'm looking for. I'll scrounge around on Amazon and see what I can turn up. Thanks.

 

[Lucky Forward]

Try Bach's Goldberg Variations, performed by Glenn Gould...it's nice, light piano music I think you could drift off to very easily.

It's also the music Doctor Lector was listening to in his cell in Silence of the Lambs when

Spoiler

he freed himself from his handcuffs, killed the two cops, and "borrowed" one of their faces.

 

[Tarazet]

Try Bach's Goldberg Variations, performed by Glenn Gould...it's nice, light piano music I think you could drift off to very easily.[/spoiler]

I think the Goldbergs are actually pretty energetic, and Gould's are especially so. If I was going to go the Bach route, I'd get an album by Murray Perahia.