About
Music for classical education, made for leisure.
One recording each day, with a painting and something worth reading.

Guercino
Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1624
Why this music
Everything we take in forms us, music included. Much of what we listen to today is fun or catchy in the moment, but it isn’t building much in us. The music here has lasted for decades and centuries because it is good, and listening to it day after day shapes the soul.
Scholé
The Greek scholé means leisure: time set free for things worth attending to. It is the root of the word school.
Canon
From kanōn, a measuring rod. Here it means a standard to measure by. This one grows by a recording each day.
How recordings are chosen
Each morning one recording is added, chosen for the performers as well as the work. An AI model does the research to a fixed brief, and the notes on each track are its summary.
No work appears twice. Periods with fewer recordings come first. Performers and approaches vary from day to day. Recordings come from established labels, or are landmark historical recordings. No crossover or novelty arrangements. Anything that can’t be verified is left out rather than guessed.
Every track links to YouTube Music, YouTube, Spotify and Apple Music. Where the exact recording can’t be found, the link opens a search instead.
Who made it

I’m Gabriel Leake. I started this for myself: a playlist my kids and I could keep adding to and listen to every day. It has been a help to us, so I built it out as a resource for classical educators and families to share. More about me at gabrielleake.com.