From gentle awakening to explosive fanfare, duelling pianos to one chill lone voice, expand your horizons with a month’s worth of classical ear-openers
. The best way to engage with those, surely, was sitting down with a box of chocolates and a hot-water bottle. Here’s a diet where you can listen. Whatever fitness trend you may have signed up to in a fit of optimism can also, in theory, be done with headphones on.
You can also do nothing but be an active listener: follow the rhythms, instruments, textures, melodies, patterns as they unfold or repeat or turn themselves upside down.has a reputation for being dusty and difficult, something you have to know about to “get”. These 31 pieces might lead you to aural pleasures as well as greater confidence in following your enthusiasms.
A diet implies restriction as well as consumption, nourishment, reward. Omissions first: opera and big symphonic and choral works are excluded. They are worlds of their own: other diets for other times. They also tend to be long. All the choices here are under 10 minutes, and often under five.
Choices have been shaped, in part, by the cold, dank days and long nights of January. A summer regime would have been altogether more airy. Away from live encounters in the concert hall, my preference tends to be contemplative and often quiet: a measure of what level of noise I want coming in through my headphones and invading rather than enhancing my day’s activities. You may have a different appetite for musical jolts and thumps and pulsating rhythms.
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