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Compositional Ambient

Compositional ambient is a genre characterized by its use of minimalist, atmospheric soundscapes, often featuring repetitive, evolving patterns and delicate instrumental textures. Emerging in the 1970s and 1980s, it draws from classical music, electronic experimentation, and ambient traditions. Popularized in the 2000s and 2010s, this genre emphasizes mood and texture over traditional melody and rhythm. Compositional ambient often incorporates elements of neo-classical, contemporary classical, and film scores, creating a sense of cinematic grandeur. Its cultural significance lies in its ability to evoke emotions and create introspective spaces, resonating with listeners in search of calm and contemplation. While related to ambient and new age music, compositional ambient is set apart by its emphasis on compositional complexity and nuanced, layered sound design, making it a distinctive and captivating genre.

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Urban Pulse - Rhythms and Sounds from the Roaring City

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•

Claude Debussy•

Frédéric Chopin•

Aaron Copland•

Adrian Willaert•

Agustín Lara•

Alan Rawsthorne•

Albert Roussel•

Albéric Magnard•

Alexander Mosolov•

André Campra•

Antonio Caldara•

Antonio Vivaldi•

Antonín Dvořák•

Arnold Schoenberg•

Arthur Bliss•

Arthur Honegger•

Bedřich Smetana•

Benedetto Marcello•

Benjamin Britten•

Bohuslav Martinů•

Béla Bartók•

Camille Saint-Saëns•

Carl Michael Ziehrer•

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach•

Carlo Gesualdo•

Carlos Gardel•

Charles Gounod•

Charles Ives•

Charles Lecocq•

Charles Trenet•

Charles Villiers Stanford•

Claude-Michel Schönberg•

Claudio Monteverdi•

Daniel Auber•

Darius Milhaud•

Dmitri Shostakovich•

Album - 220 Tracks - Released February 28, 2026

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February 28, 2026

Urban Pulse - Rhythms and Sounds from the Roaring City
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Claude Debussy•
Frédéric Chopin•
Aaron Copland•
Adrian Willaert•
Agustín Lara•
Alan Rawsthorne•
Albert Roussel•
Albéric Magnard•
Alexander Mosolov•
André Campra•
Anonymous•
Antonio Caldara•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Antonín Dvořák•
Arnold Schoenberg•
Arthur Bliss•
Arthur Honegger•
Bedřich Smetana•
Benedetto Marcello•
Benjamin Britten•
Bohuslav Martinů•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Carl Michael Ziehrer•
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach•
Carlo Gesualdo•
Carlos Gardel•
Charles Gounod•
Charles Ives•
Charles Lecocq•
Charles Trenet•
Charles Villiers Stanford•
Claude-Michel Schönberg•
Claudio Monteverdi•
Cole Porter•
Daniel Auber•
Darius Milhaud•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Duke Ellington
220 tracks
February 27

Muhly: No Resting Place: II. BETH. Plorans ploravit
Nico Muhly•
The Tallis Scholars•
Peter Phillips
1 tracks
February 27

Shostakovich Symphony No. 2 "To October": III. Meno Mosso
Dmitri Shostakovich•
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra•
John Storgårds
1 tracks
February 27

Sunrise Session III
Ólafur Arnalds
4 tracks
February 27

Solo Piano
Ludovico Einaudi
17 tracks
February 27

Riley: Crown of Brotherhood
Terry Riley
1 tracks
February 26

Atonement (Final Fantasy XIII)
Peter Broderick
3 tracks
February 23

to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is
Arms and Sleepers
1 tracks
February 21

"Cinema Sounds: Film Music"
Alan Silvestri•
John Powell•
Danny Elfman•
Thomas Newman•
John Williams•
Alexandre Desplat•
Ennio Morricone•
Dario Marianelli
80 tracks
February 20

Steve Reich: Sextet: III. Crotchet = 64
Steve Reich•
Colin Currie Group
1 tracks
February 20

The Boy and the Tree (2025 Remastered)
Susumu Yokota
12 tracks
February 20

Glass: Glassworks: I. Opening Piece
Philip Glass•
Célia Oneto Bensaid
1 tracks
February 20

Cinema: The Silver Screen Classics Collection
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Alan Silvestri•
Andrea Morricone•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Bernard Herrmann•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Charlie Chaplin•
Claude Debussy•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Edward Elgar•
Ennio Morricone•
Fernando Sor•
Francis Lai•
George Frideric Handel•
Georges Delerue•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Giya Kancheli•
Gustav Holst•
Gustav Mahler•
Henry Mancini•
Howard Shore•
Isaac Albéniz•
James Horner•
John Barry•
John Williams•
Josef Mysliveček•
Joseph Kosma•
Justin Hurwitz•
Leonard Bernstein•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Maurice Jarre•
Max Steiner•
Michael Giacchino•
Michael Nyman•
Michel Legrand•
Nino Rota•
Paul Dukas•
Philippe Sarde•
Pietro Mascagni•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Richard Strauss•
Richard Wagner•
Samuel Barber•
Sergei Rachmaninoff•
Stanley Myers•
Stéphane Grappelli•
Thomas Newman
86 tracks
February 20

Night, Time
Luke Howard
1 tracks
February 20

Like Rain
Dirk Maassen
6 tracks
February 20

Hurts Like You (feat. GOODWIN)
Lambert•
GOODWIN
2 tracks
February 20

Cinema: The Silver Screen Classics Collection
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Alan Silvestri•
Andrea Morricone•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Bernard Herrmann•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Charlie Chaplin•
Claude Debussy•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Edward Elgar•
Ennio Morricone•
Fernando Sor•
Francis Lai•
George Frideric Handel•
Georges Delerue•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Giya Kancheli•
Gustav Holst•
Gustav Mahler•
Henry Mancini•
Howard Shore•
Isaac Albéniz•
James Horner•
John Barry•
John Williams•
Josef Mysliveček•
Joseph Kosma•
Justin Hurwitz•
Leonard Bernstein•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Maurice Jarre•
Max Steiner•
Michael Giacchino•
Michael Nyman•
Michel Legrand•
Nino Rota•
Paul Dukas•
Philippe Sarde•
Pietro Mascagni•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Richard Strauss•
Richard Wagner•
Samuel Barber•
Sergei Rachmaninoff•
Stanley Myers•
Stéphane Grappelli•
Thomas Newman
86 tracks
February 20

Cinema: The Silver Screen Classics Collection
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Alan Silvestri•
Andrea Morricone•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Bernard Herrmann•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Charlie Chaplin•
Claude Debussy•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Edward Elgar•
Ennio Morricone•
Fernando Sor•
Francis Lai•
George Frideric Handel•
Georges Delerue•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Giya Kancheli•
Gustav Holst•
Gustav Mahler•
Henry Mancini•
Howard Shore•
Isaac Albéniz•
James Horner•
John Barry•
John Williams•
Josef Mysliveček•
Joseph Kosma•
Justin Hurwitz•
Leonard Bernstein•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Maurice Jarre•
Max Steiner•
Michael Giacchino•
Michael Nyman•
Michel Legrand•
Nino Rota•
Paul Dukas•
Philippe Sarde•
Pietro Mascagni•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Richard Strauss•
Richard Wagner•
Samuel Barber•
Sergei Rachmaninoff•
Stanley Myers•
Stéphane Grappelli•
Thomas Newman
86 tracks
February 20

Daimon: Piano Concerto, Ithaca Suite & Sonatina for Nausicaa
Olivia Belli
13 tracks
February 20

Jóhannsson: Payphone (from "McCanick") [Performed on Piano]
Jóhann Jóhannsson•
Alice Sara Ott
1 tracks
February 20

Floating
The Album Leaf•
Spencer Zahn
1 tracks
February 20

When humans do algorythms
Joep Beving
1 tracks
February 16

deliver us from evil
Arms and Sleepers
1 tracks
February 14

Experience
Ludovico Einaudi
1 tracks
February 13

Torrid Classics - Voluptuous Music for Passionate Nights
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Adam de la Halle•
Albert Roussel•
Alexander Knaifel•
Alexander Scriabin•
Anonymous•
Anton Rubinstein•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Antonín Dvořák•
Arthur Bliss•
Bedřich Smetana•
Benjamin Britten•
Bernard Herrmann•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Carl Orff•
Charles Gounod•
Charles Wakefield Cadman•
Charles-Valentin Alkan•
Christoph Willibald Gluck•
Claude Debussy•
Claude Le Jeune•
Claudin de Sermisy•
Claudio Monteverdi•
Clément Janequin•
Cole Porter•
César Cui•
Darius Milhaud•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Duke Ellington•
Edvard Grieg•
Edward Elgar•
Emmanuel Chabrier•
Erik Satie•
Ernest Chausson•
Eugène Ysaÿe•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Florent Schmitt•
Francis Poulenc•
Franz Lehár•
Franz Liszt•
Franz Schubert•
François Couperin•
Frederick Delius•
Frédéric Chopin
117 tracks
February 13

like gravity
Ólafur Arnalds
15 tracks
February 13

Dawn: Pride & Prejudice for Solo Guitar
Dario Marianelli•
Plínio Fernandes
3 tracks
February 13

Nobody's diary
Stefano Guzzetti
1 tracks
February 13

Einaudi: Primavera
Ludovico Einaudi
1 tracks
February 13

Philip Glass: Songs & Poems
Philip Glass
7 tracks
February 12

Raíces al Viento
Aukai
1 tracks
February 10

Long Winter
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Agustín Barrios Mangoré•
Alessandro Marcello•
Antonín Dvořák•
Béla Bartók•
Carl Nielsen•
Christoph Willibald Gluck•
Clara Schumann•
Claude Debussy•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Edvard Grieg•
Edward Elgar•
Erik Satie•
Ferruccio Busoni•
Franz Liszt•
Franz Schubert•
Fritz Kreisler•
Frédéric Chopin•
George Gershwin•
Jean-Baptiste Lully•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Luigi Boccherini•
Marin Marais•
Maurice Ravel•
Muzio Clementi•
Niccolò Paganini•
Nikolai Medtner•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Richard Wagner•
Sebastián De Albero•
Sergei Prokofiev•
Sergei Rachmaninoff•
Silvius Leopold Weiss•
Émile Waldteufel
76 tracks
February 10

focus
Ludovico Einaudi
4 tracks
February 10

Under the Rotting Pizza (Final Fantasy VII)
Peter Broderick
2 tracks
February 6

With These Hands
Jan Bang•
Ensemble Modern
2 tracks
February 6

Momentary
Peter Sandberg
4 tracks
February 6

Points of Inaccessibility
Rafael Anton Irisarri
4 tracks
February 6

Muhly: Rough Notes
Nico Muhly•
The Tallis Scholars•
Peter Phillips
1 tracks
January 30

Trivium
Arvo Pärt•
Iveta Apkalna
3 tracks
January 30

Liz on Top of the World (Arr. Assad for Guitar) [From "Pride & Prejudice"]
Dario Marianelli•
Plínio Fernandes
2 tracks

February 28, 2026

Urban Pulse - Rhythms and Sounds from the Roaring City
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Claude Debussy•
Frédéric Chopin•
Aaron Copland•
Adrian Willaert•
Agustín Lara•
Alan Rawsthorne•
Albert Roussel•
Albéric Magnard•
Alexander Mosolov•
André Campra•
Anonymous•
Antonio Caldara•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Antonín Dvořák•
Arnold Schoenberg•
Arthur Bliss•
Arthur Honegger•
Bedřich Smetana•
Benedetto Marcello•
Benjamin Britten•
Bohuslav Martinů•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Carl Michael Ziehrer•
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach•
Carlo Gesualdo•
Carlos Gardel•
Charles Gounod•
Charles Ives•
Charles Lecocq•
Charles Trenet•
Charles Villiers Stanford•
Claude-Michel Schönberg•
Claudio Monteverdi•
Cole Porter•
Daniel Auber•
Darius Milhaud•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Duke Ellington
220 tracks
February 27

Sunrise Session III
Ólafur Arnalds
4 tracks
February 27

Solo Piano
Ludovico Einaudi
17 tracks
February 21

"Cinema Sounds: Film Music"
Alan Silvestri•
John Powell•
Danny Elfman•
Thomas Newman•
John Williams•
Alexandre Desplat•
Ennio Morricone•
Dario Marianelli
80 tracks
February 20

Cinema: The Silver Screen Classics Collection
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Alan Silvestri•
Andrea Morricone•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Bernard Herrmann•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Charlie Chaplin•
Claude Debussy•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Edward Elgar•
Ennio Morricone•
Fernando Sor•
Francis Lai•
George Frideric Handel•
Georges Delerue•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Giya Kancheli•
Gustav Holst•
Gustav Mahler•
Henry Mancini•
Howard Shore•
Isaac Albéniz•
James Horner•
John Barry•
John Williams•
Josef Mysliveček•
Joseph Kosma•
Justin Hurwitz•
Leonard Bernstein•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Maurice Jarre•
Max Steiner•
Michael Giacchino•
Michael Nyman•
Michel Legrand•
Nino Rota•
Paul Dukas•
Philippe Sarde•
Pietro Mascagni•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Richard Strauss•
Richard Wagner•
Samuel Barber•
Sergei Rachmaninoff•
Stanley Myers•
Stéphane Grappelli•
Thomas Newman
86 tracks
February 20

Daimon: Piano Concerto, Ithaca Suite & Sonatina for Nausicaa
Olivia Belli
13 tracks
February 20

Cinema: The Silver Screen Classics Collection
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Alan Silvestri•
Andrea Morricone•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Bernard Herrmann•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Charlie Chaplin•
Claude Debussy•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Edward Elgar•
Ennio Morricone•
Fernando Sor•
Francis Lai•
George Frideric Handel•
Georges Delerue•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Giya Kancheli•
Gustav Holst•
Gustav Mahler•
Henry Mancini•
Howard Shore•
Isaac Albéniz•
James Horner•
John Barry•
John Williams•
Josef Mysliveček•
Joseph Kosma•
Justin Hurwitz•
Leonard Bernstein•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Maurice Jarre•
Max Steiner•
Michael Giacchino•
Michael Nyman•
Michel Legrand•
Nino Rota•
Paul Dukas•
Philippe Sarde•
Pietro Mascagni•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Richard Strauss•
Richard Wagner•
Samuel Barber•
Sergei Rachmaninoff•
Stanley Myers•
Stéphane Grappelli•
Thomas Newman
86 tracks
February 20

The Boy and the Tree (2025 Remastered)
Susumu Yokota
12 tracks
February 20

Cinema: The Silver Screen Classics Collection
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Alan Silvestri•
Andrea Morricone•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Bernard Herrmann•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Charlie Chaplin•
Claude Debussy•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Edward Elgar•
Ennio Morricone•
Fernando Sor•
Francis Lai•
George Frideric Handel•
Georges Delerue•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Giya Kancheli•
Gustav Holst•
Gustav Mahler•
Henry Mancini•
Howard Shore•
Isaac Albéniz•
James Horner•
John Barry•
John Williams•
Josef Mysliveček•
Joseph Kosma•
Justin Hurwitz•
Leonard Bernstein•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Maurice Jarre•
Max Steiner•
Michael Giacchino•
Michael Nyman•
Michel Legrand•
Nino Rota•
Paul Dukas•
Philippe Sarde•
Pietro Mascagni•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Richard Strauss•
Richard Wagner•
Samuel Barber•
Sergei Rachmaninoff•
Stanley Myers•
Stéphane Grappelli•
Thomas Newman
86 tracks
February 20

Like Rain
Dirk Maassen
6 tracks
February 13

like gravity
Ólafur Arnalds
15 tracks
February 13

Philip Glass: Songs & Poems
Philip Glass
7 tracks
February 13

Torrid Classics - Voluptuous Music for Passionate Nights
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Adam de la Halle•
Albert Roussel•
Alexander Knaifel•
Alexander Scriabin•
Anonymous•
Anton Rubinstein•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Antonín Dvořák•
Arthur Bliss•
Bedřich Smetana•
Benjamin Britten•
Bernard Herrmann•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Carl Orff•
Charles Gounod•
Charles Wakefield Cadman•
Charles-Valentin Alkan•
Christoph Willibald Gluck•
Claude Debussy•
Claude Le Jeune•
Claudin de Sermisy•
Claudio Monteverdi•
Clément Janequin•
Cole Porter•
César Cui•
Darius Milhaud•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Duke Ellington•
Edvard Grieg•
Edward Elgar•
Emmanuel Chabrier•
Erik Satie•
Ernest Chausson•
Eugène Ysaÿe•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Florent Schmitt•
Francis Poulenc•
Franz Lehár•
Franz Liszt•
Franz Schubert•
François Couperin•
Frederick Delius•
Frédéric Chopin
117 tracks
February 10

focus
Ludovico Einaudi
4 tracks
February 10

Long Winter
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Agustín Barrios Mangoré•
Alessandro Marcello•
Antonín Dvořák•
Béla Bartók•
Carl Nielsen•
Christoph Willibald Gluck•
Clara Schumann•
Claude Debussy•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Edvard Grieg•
Edward Elgar•
Erik Satie•
Ferruccio Busoni•
Franz Liszt•
Franz Schubert•
Fritz Kreisler•
Frédéric Chopin•
George Gershwin•
Jean-Baptiste Lully•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Luigi Boccherini•
Marin Marais•
Maurice Ravel•
Muzio Clementi•
Niccolò Paganini•
Nikolai Medtner•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Richard Wagner•
Sebastián De Albero•
Sergei Prokofiev•
Sergei Rachmaninoff•
Silvius Leopold Weiss•
Émile Waldteufel
76 tracks
February 6

Points of Inaccessibility
Rafael Anton Irisarri
4 tracks
February 6

Momentary
Peter Sandberg
4 tracks
January 30

Sentimental Value
Hania Rani
10 tracks
January 30

I Didn't Want That
Dirk Maassen
5 tracks
January 30

all the gods, all the heavens, are within you
Arms and Sleepers
6 tracks

February 27, 2026

Riley: Crown of Brotherhood
Terry Riley
1 tracks
February 27

Shostakovich Symphony No. 2 "To October": III. Meno Mosso
Dmitri Shostakovich•
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra•
John Storgårds
1 tracks
February 27

Muhly: No Resting Place: II. BETH. Plorans ploravit
Nico Muhly•
The Tallis Scholars•
Peter Phillips
1 tracks
February 26

Atonement (Final Fantasy XIII)
Peter Broderick
3 tracks
February 23

to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is
Arms and Sleepers
1 tracks
February 20

Glass: Glassworks: I. Opening Piece
Philip Glass•
Célia Oneto Bensaid
1 tracks
February 20

Jóhannsson: Payphone (from "McCanick") [Performed on Piano]
Jóhann Jóhannsson•
Alice Sara Ott
1 tracks
February 20

Steve Reich: Sextet: III. Crotchet = 64
Steve Reich•
Colin Currie Group
1 tracks
February 20

Night, Time
Luke Howard
1 tracks
February 20

Hurts Like You (feat. GOODWIN)
Lambert•
GOODWIN
2 tracks
February 20

Floating
The Album Leaf•
Spencer Zahn
1 tracks
February 20

When humans do algorythms
Joep Beving
1 tracks
February 16

deliver us from evil
Arms and Sleepers
1 tracks
February 14

Experience
Ludovico Einaudi
1 tracks
February 13

Nobody's diary
Stefano Guzzetti
1 tracks
February 13

Dawn: Pride & Prejudice for Solo Guitar
Dario Marianelli•
Plínio Fernandes
3 tracks
February 13

Einaudi: Primavera
Ludovico Einaudi
1 tracks
February 12

Raíces al Viento
Aukai
1 tracks
February 10

Under the Rotting Pizza (Final Fantasy VII)
Peter Broderick
2 tracks
February 6

With These Hands
Jan Bang•
Ensemble Modern
2 tracks