Looking for classical music to ease my nerve

[jokooon]

Hello !

I'm a programmer, and since I take anti depressant and all that, I may also be hyperacusic (I can't stand loud sounds and can't bear noise around me when I concentrate).

Do you guys know some quiet music, something like Chopin or other composers ?

[Microscopic cog]

Gustav Holst's Venus from the Planet Suite is also very pretty. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1f8HjIkU3M&feature=related

Maybe you'd like some ambient music? It's the most peaceful, charming and calm music I know.
Brian Eno, is wonderful ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz9JmpULP3o
And so is Steve Roach http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0oRUxEwROk

[achan1058]

I would say Bach and Mozart. Chopin is for the most part good as well. I think Satie have some interesting works as well. Though, I think for the most part it's more about the music type than the composer. Piano tends to be good with this regard, and orchestral work not.

[Sandry]

Debusy - Arabesque #1

[Spambot5546]

Beethoven's 7th, Second Movement.
I'm also a fan of moonight sonata, which is better for relaxation than the above.

[SirMustapha]

Try Bach's cello suites. There are six of 'em, and you're guaranteed not to be startled by any distressingly loud sounds. The Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin are great too.

Brian Eno has some excellent ambient music too: The Plateaux of Mirror, with Harold Budd, is great. Try Vangelis's L'Apocalypse des Animaux too.

[Роберт]

I was tempted to post "guided relaxation dub", but if you really do want soothing stuff because of nerve problems, that would be incredibly mean; I'll just say most classical music is soothing, so good genre choice. Dubsteb would be a bad genre choice. I forget specific piece names easily but it looks like you've gotten quite a few recommendations.

[cjmcjmcjmcjm]

Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich. Six Marimbas and Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organs are also good

[legopelle]

Schubert's impromptu no 6 (op. 142 d. 935) in Ab minor. Some intonation dynamics, but nothing startling.
Spotify link for convenience:
spotify:track:7IUVz8XzOdt2NYYnHKnn5N
or
http://open.spotify.com/track/7IUVz8XzOdt2NYYnHKnn5N

[Microscopic cog]

It always makes me feel sad when people ask a question and don't respond to the answers.

I can recommend most things above, especially the Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven. Bach as well my favourite piece of classical music is by him, the Brandenburg Concertos, but they might be a bit too fast and unrelaxing for you. However there are slower and faster version of it. Look it up if you feel like it.

[Dream]

Erik Satie's piano music, and Harold Budd's ambient work are very good places to start.

[podbaydoor]

Debussy's La mer reliably puts me to sleep when I listen to it in concert.

Clair de Lune is soothing, as well.

I like Ravel's Pavane for a Dead Princess.

Massenet's Meditation from Thais is a violin classic that every schmuck in the Suzuki program has stumbled through, but Perlman does it well. (Here is a version by Yo-Yo Ma if the violin is too harsh for you.)

Yo-Yo Ma again playing Saint-Saens' The Swan.

The Appalachia Waltz has grown on me. (And...apparently it's composed by O'Conner, not Copland. Oops. Music nerd fail.)

[Dirk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPErSyk5iHs

This does the job for me

[Keakealani]

It might take some experimenting as to what exactly is most soothing to you, but I would definitely look into some of the Debussy preludes (not all of them mind you, but ones like Girl With The Flaxen Hair or The Terrace of Moonlit Audiences might be good choices) as well as some Fauré - I particularly like his Pavane Op. 50, as well as his Requiem (In Paradisum is calm and haunting, and I think the Agnus Dei could also work for this purpose). The slow movements of many of Beethoven's piano works might be good choices; not only Moonlight, but the Adagio Cantabile (second movement) from the Pathétique sonata is also really calm and soothing.

In another way, many of Bach's fugues and inventions have a similar calming effect by being very regular and ordered. They are faster in tempo a lot of times, but they still have that kind of flowyness that makes them pretty easy to listen to, and they tend not to have abrupt changes in tempo or dynamic that would cause your nerves of stand on edge.

[MissAusten]

Check this out, I think it's quite relaxing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SI1E2wZ9Dc

[drewerd]

Chopin is the way to go. Find some of his nocturnes like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvxS_bJ0yOU
Or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leSYZRmknlc&feature=related

[existentialpanda]

Borodin's In the Steppes of Central Asia, and the third movement of his 2nd symphony. (The whole thing's fantastic, actually, but I'm not sure if you would call it "relaxing"....)