Classical Sleep

Though classically trained, pianist Jim Brickman prefers to play more pop-flavored, gently lyrical new age music. His unique compositions are emotional and structured, but not rigidly so. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Brickman enrolled in the Cleveland Institute of Music in his late teens. The focus was on classical music, but Brickman could not escape the lure of mainstream music, and at age 19 began writing commercial jingles. This led him to compose music for such major outfits the Gap, Isuzu, Sprint, and Kellogg's as well as with Jim Henson and Henson Associates. During his association with Henson, he composed for the Muppets and for projects on Sesame Street. He also assisted on some of Henson's Disney projects. Brickman recorded his debut album, No Words, on Windham Hill in 1994.

This album includes over three hours of piano pieces performed by some of the finest pianists Misha Fomin, Katya Kramer-Lapin, Konstantin Soukhovetski, Mikhail Mordvinov, Vyacheslav Gryaznov, Maria Nemtsova and Pavel Dombrovsky.
The collection contains the most beautiful compositions of Mozart, Chopin, Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Scriabin, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Satie, Nazaykinskaya and Bryukhno.

Main features
- More than 50 radio stations(Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and others + new stations every update
- Licensed BASS© audio library with awesome 32-bit sound quality!
- Powerful 10 band equalizer with additional sound settings
- Net buffer settings for stable playback even without perfect internet connection
- Full-screen dock mode - useful for car listening
- Tracks history with instant search on Internet
- Useful Widget
- Sleep Timer

More than 50 radio stations(Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and others + new stations every update

Barely half a century ago, the guitar was such a rarity in the concert hall that even an outstanding player like Julian Bream was remarkable as a pioneer as much as for his exceptional technique and musicality. Today, by contrast, the field is richly populated thanks not only to Bream's own inspiring example to younger players but also to the vastly increased repertoire, so much of which he also instigated.

Dale Kavanagh is one of the most prominent classical guitarists of her generation. As a soloist and a member of the acclaimed Amadeus Guitar Duo she has performed all over the world and is the dedicatee of numerous compositions. Domeniconi’s Variations are based on a famous Anatolian folk song, while the highly original language of Britten’s evocative Nocturnal has its starting point in a song by John Dowland.

Pianist Andrew Armstrong has an international career, having performed items from his large repertory of 35 concertos at all the major U.S. concert halls and prestigious venues across Europe. He is a noted chamber player, often performing and recording with violinist James Ehnes. Armstrong was born on February 18, 1974, in New Canaan, Connecticut, and has continued to perform often in cities along the Connecticut coast. He began piano lessons at age seven, at first only because he was jealous of his older sister, Jane, who had been offered them. He took to the instrument, and his father, a pianist, noticed how he began to carefully shape the music he played. In his teens, Armstrong was sent to the Hoff-Berthelson School in Scarsdale, New York, for studies with Miyoko Nakaya. He began to win prizes, 25 of them in all, and as a freshman at Columbia University (he paid his tuition largely with prize money), he entered the Van Cliburn Competition in Fort Worth, Texas. Earning plaudits from Cliburn himself, Armstrong won a Jury Discretionary Award. After that, though, the prizes dried up, and a first-round washout at the next Cliburn Competition caused Armstrong to think he was prioritizing prize-winning over musicality. He dropped out of Columbia, left his teacher, and began to study concertos on his own, taking engagements with orchestras large and small that wanted to have him.