‘I’m working through 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die’: readers’ WFH playlists

Some of you went classic rock; others Iranian ambient. And yet others took on epic challenges that will take years to complete ... here's what you've been listening to while working under lockdown

If I need to concentrate on something really thorny, I go for Bach every time. It seems to allow my brain to work at a high level and I do almost all my best work to Bach. Andras Schiff or Angela Hewitt playing keyboard works, and Hilary Hahn on violin. Beethoven's late quartets and Schubert lieder are good for deep thought. If I'm just doing low-level stuff, then Radio Paradise is my go-to - it's a commercial-free internet station, which I like because it mixes a lot of stuff I know from my younger days with music that I'm less familiar with. Edward Collier, software developer, Cheltenham