MUSIC FOR MEDITATION
Meditating to music can be a calming, reflective and spiritual experience. The suggested material on this page offers you a variety of musical pieces that provide an excellent entry into this form of practice. This list is updated regularly and we invite you to send us your own suggestions to add to the list.
Classical
Jazz
World
Spiritual
Classical
Bach:
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Cantatas for Alto Solo – Andreas Scholl, Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe
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English Suites – Glenn Gould
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Goldberg Variations – Glenn Gould
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Messe en Si Mineur (Mass in B Minor) – Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe
Beethoven:
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Piano Sonatas – Glenn Gould
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9 Symphonies: The Enlightenment and The Revolution - Kent Nagano Symphonique De Montreal
Casals:
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Bach Cello Suites 1 & 2 – Pablo Casals
Chopin:
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Nocturnes – Arthur Rubinstein
Gershwin:
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Manhattan – New York Phil Harmonic
Renee Fleming:
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Haunted Heart
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The Art of Renee Fleming
Mozart:
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The Complete Piano Sonatas – Glenn Gould
Erik Satie:
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Piano Masterpieces Selection – Paul Martínez
Shubert:
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Winterreise (Winter Journey)
Jazz
Andy Bey:
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Ain't Necessarily So
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American Song
Keith Jarrett
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The Melody At Night, With You
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Whisper Not
Ralph Towner
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My Foolish Heart
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Chiaroscuro
Thelonius Monk with John Coltrane
The Best of Chet Baker Sings – Chet Baker
Blue Light ‘Til Dawn – Cassandra Wilson
Eastern Sounds (Remastered) – Yusef Lateef
Getz/Gilberto – Stan Getz & João Gilberto
Jasmine – Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden
Leaves of Grass – Fred Hersch Ensemble
New Chautauqua – Pat Metheny
Poetica – Anat Cohen
Still Life (Talking) – Pat Metheny Group
The Very Best of John Coltrane – John Coltrane
World
Bob Dylan:
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Bringing It All Back Home
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John Wesley Harding
Leonard Cohen:
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Ten Songs
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The Essential
1966 - Ryuichi Sakamoto
Amorosa – Rosa Passos
En Mana Kuoyo – Ayub Ogada
Entre Amigos - Rosa Passos with Ron Carter
Japanese Traditional Music – Various Artists
The Very Best of Japanese Music – Various Artists
Toots Thieleman's European Quartet - Toots Thieleman
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Spiritual
Ravi Shankar
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Chants of India (Produced by George Harrison)
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Spirit of India
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The Essential
Nawang Khechog
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Tibetan Meditation Music
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Music As Meditation
108 Names of MOther Divine Sacred Chants - Craig Pruess & Ananda
Classical Indian Flute & Violin With Virtuoso Brothers V.K. Raman and Mysore V. Srikanth – Mysore V. Srikanth & V.K. Raman
Kokan-Shakuhachi 1 “Colour of Tune” – Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments Collection Series 6
Most Relaxing Classical Indian Flute – Splendour of Meditation
Music of Zen Meditation – Tony Scott
Samurai Music – Traditional Zen Music – “Shakuhachi” Bamboo Flute
The Lama’s Chants: Songs of Awakening and Roads of Blessings – Jean-Philippe Rykiel & Lama Gyurme
Tibetan Mantras for Turbulent Times - Deval Premal and the Gyuto Monks of Tibet