# Help me with a spotify classical playlist **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2016, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-spotify-classical-playlist/755245 "2016-05-20T18:05:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-spotify-classical-playlist/755245/1 "2016-05-20T18:05:11Z")
Looking for soft classical music to fall asleep by. So far I have Debussy - Claire de Lune Chopin - Op 25 No 1 “Aeolean Harp” Whitacre - Nox Aurumque & Lux Aurumque What other songs should I listen to. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-spotify-classical-playlist/755245/2 "2016-05-21T05:19:42Z")
Lots of possibilities here: [Song recommendations based on Debussy's "Claire de Lune" - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=455520) Some more suggestions. Herbert Howells, A Spotless Rose (get the version by the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge) Francis Poulenc, O Magnum Mysterium Faure, Agnus Dei and In Paradisum from his Requiem Randall Thompson, Alleluia Britten, “There Is No Rose” and “Balulow” from “A Ceremony of Carols.” Bach - Sheep may safely graze Mozart - Laudate Dominum, Vesperae solennes de confessore K339 Debussy - Nuages, nocturne for orchestra Holst, Venus and Neptune from “The Planets” Vaughan Williams, The Lark Ascending (not on Spotify AFAICT, but worth listening to: Holst - Hymn to the Dawn, Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, third group) ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-spotify-classical-playlist/755245/3 "2016-05-21T23:21:14Z")
Problem with the suggestions in the other thread is they are mostly piono pieces. I’ll listen to the ones you suggested. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-spotify-classical-playlist/755245/4 "2016-05-22T00:14:52Z")
“Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben” from Zaide “O pastorelle, addio” from Andrea Chenier Bach’s “Air” Satie’s “Gymnopedie #1”, though it’s piano. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-spotify-classical-playlist/755245/5 "2016-05-22T00:45:11Z")
Any of Bach’s chamber music or lute music. _Pictures at an Exhibition_ puts me to sleep, although I don’t think it’s supposed to…anyway, Mussorgsky I love Grieg’s\* Holberg Suite\*-- it’s probably my favorite piece of music. It progresses from light and sweet to almost narcotizingly seductive in the first through fourth movements. The fifth movement, which is one of the best pieces of music ever, is unfortunately not soporific. It is allegretto and usually comes on louder than the fourth movement, but you could turn that movement off for your sleep playlist. It’s normally a violin piece, but there a guitar recording by the Netherlands’ Guitar Quartet that I like. Actually, the fifth movement is not as arousing in this version. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-spotify-classical-playlist/755245/6 "2016-05-22T01:04:11Z")
Put me down as someone else who enjoys Faure’s [“Silicienne”.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5Y0uQLgriA) ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-spotify-classical-playlist/755245/7 "2016-05-22T02:39:51Z")
Added moonlight sonata and Holst Neptune before I saw this list. Added a few from the other thread and going to run through these. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-spotify-classical-playlist/755245/8 "2016-05-22T07:06:01Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Added moonlight sonata First movement only, if you’re going for a “drift off to sleep” kind of mood. The second’s not so bad, but that third movement was never anywhere near “relaxing”. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-spotify-classical-playlist/755245/9 "2016-05-23T05:05:20Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > Randall Thompson, Alleluia I kinda withdraw this one. It gets loud at the end. > [@](#): > > (not on Spotify AFAICT, but worth listening to: Holst - Hymn to the Dawn, Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, third group) :smack: Of course it’s on Spotify. Get the version with the Purcell Singers. You might like the Hymn to Vena from that same collection, although it does get loud at the end (well, as loud as a harp and small chorus of women can get). Maybe try Maurice Ravel, “La flute enchantee” and “L’indifferent”. However, the first does get a little louder in the middle. Get the version with Victoria de los Angeles and Georges Pretre. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-spotify-classical-playlist/755245/10 "2016-05-23T05:31:05Z")
Some more recommendations. Borodin, Nocturne from string quartet #2 in D. Gluck, Dance of the Blessed Spirits from “Orfeo ed Euridice”. J.S. Bach - BWV 639 - Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ (for organ). Here’s my post from “Slow, quiet and sad. Classical recommendations”. I knew I’d done something like this before, but I couldn’t remember exactly where. FYI items 2, 3, 4 and 6 are piano pieces. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16373300&highlight=sarabande#post16373300](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16373300&highlight=sarabande#post16373300) Note that some of the other posters there suggest pieces that contain loud passages. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-spotify-classical-playlist/755245/11 "2016-05-24T10:49:25Z")
JS Bach: _Goldberg Variations_ and _Schlummert ein, ihr matte Augen_ (particularly the recording with Lorraine Hunt Lieberson) Canteloube: _Baïlero_ and _Soun, soun, béni, béni_ from _Songs of the Auvergne_ Any Nocturnes by Chopin or John Field Satie: _Gnossiennes_ and _Gymnopédies_ Brahms \*Intermezzi \*Op. 117/8/9 Vaughan Williams: _Norfolk Rhapsodies_ and _Fantasia on Greensleeves_ Angelika Kirschlager issued a whole album of lullabies with the title _When Night Falls_ - should be plenty there.