Hibernation Playlist... ❄ (22)

Debussy, Beethoven, Chopin, Dvořák, Bach, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Fauré, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, and much more!

One of the best things about the winter holidays is getting to curl up at home with good company and good food, and relax! To help you out, we have put together the Holiday Relaxation Playlist! De-stress with soothing solo piano works by Chopin, Beethoven, and Debussy, laugh at comic operas by Verdi, Rossini, and Donizetti, enjoy heart-warming ballets by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev, and unwind with illuminating interpretations of great symphonic works by Mendelssohn, Dvořák, and Ravel!

Vladimir Ashkenazy plays Chopin

A film by Christopher Nupen

University of Essex (Essex, Great Britain)

Daniel Barenboim plays Beethoven's Sonata No. 14, "Moonlight"

The complete Beethoven sonatas

Donizetti's Don Pasquale

Mariame Clément (stage director), Enrique Mazzola (conductor) – With Alessandro Corbelli (Don Pasquale), Danielle de Niese (Norina)...

Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège

Rossini's La Cenerentola

Paolo Arrivabeni, Cécile Roussat and Julien Lubek – Marianna Pizzolato (Cenerentola), Bruno de Simone (Don Magnifico)...

Festival d'Aix-en-Provence

Verdi's Rigoletto

Robert Carsen, Gianandrea Noseda – George Gagnidze (Rigoletto), Irina Lungu (Gilda), Arturo Chacon Cruz (Il Duca di Mantova)...

Jewels by Balanchine, music by Fauré, Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky

With the Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra

Mariinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Sleeping Beauty by Marius Petipa, music by Tchaikovsky

Alina Cojocaru (Princess Aurora), Federico Bonelli (Prince Florimund), Christopher Saunders (King Florestan XXIV) – The Royal Ballet

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (London, Great Britain)

Opéra national de Paris

Cinderella by Rudolf Nureyev, music by Sergei Prokofiev

Agnès Letestu (Cinderella), José Martinez (The movie star) – Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris

Opéra national de Paris

Swan Lake by Nureyev, music by Tchaikovsky

Agnès Letestu (Odette), José Martinez (Siegfried) – Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris

Eric Le Sage, Ébène Quartet, Daishin Kashimoto, Lise Berthaud, François Salque: French Chamber Music (II/II)

Recorded at the Paris Salle Pleyel – Long version

Salle Pleyel (Paris, France)

Verbier Festival

Susan Graham and Malcolm Martineau perform French melodies

Verbier Festival 2009

Philharmonie de Paris

Menahem Pressler performs Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy and Schubert

Récital à la Cité de la musique

Libor Pešek conducts Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, "From The New World"

The Prague Symphony Orchestra's Dvořák Cycle Vol. IV

Alte Oper Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Christa Ludwig perform Lieder

Gerald Moore, piano

Hermann Prey sings Schubert Lieder

Festhalle Bad Urach

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Mendelssohn, Bach and Beethoven – With Christian Tetzlaff, Camilla Tilling, Nathalie Stutzmann, Joseph Kaiser, Dimitry Ivashchenko

Waldbühne 2013 – Berliner Philharmoniker

Berlin Waldbühne (Berlin, Germany)

Riccardo Chailly conducts Mendelssohn

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Gewandhaus Leipzig (Leipzig, Germany)

Sol Gabetta plays Franck and Debussy

Sol Gabetta at Solsberg Festival (I/III)

Solsberg Festival (Olsberg, Aargau, Switzerland)

Grigory Sokolov plays Bach, Beethoven and Schubert

Festival de La Roque d'Anthéron 2015

Grand Théâtre de Provence (Aix-en-Provence, France)

Hélène Grimaud plays Fauré, Ravel, Liszt, Janáček, and more – With Mat Hennek (visual artist)

Woodlands and Beyond

Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg, Germany)

Sergiu Celibidache conducts Ravel and Debussy

Münchner Philharmoniker

Kölner Philharmonie (Cologne, Germany)

The Nutcracker by Vainonen after Petipa and Ivanov, music by Tchaikovsky

Alina Somova (Masha the Princess), Vladimir Shklyarov (The Nutcracker Prince), Alexandra Korshunova (Masha)... – Mariinsky Theater Ballet Company

Mariinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg, Russia)