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A little night music

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classcal to contemporary and everything in between.

1 hour, 30 minutes

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Wed 17 Jun 202023:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Nick Harvey

    In the Woods

    Performer: Nick Harvey.
    • Eden.
    • Redrocca.
    • 25.

  • Ravi Shankar

    Forest of Bliss

    Composer: Tarun Bhattacharya. Performer: Ravi Shankar. Performer: Ravi Shankar. Performer: Tarun Bhattacharya. Performer: Tarun Bhattacharya. Performer: Tarun Bhattacharya. Performer: Tarun Bhattacharya. Performer: Tarun Bhattacharya.
    • Arc Music.

  • Arvo Pärt

    The Deer's Cry

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.

  • Goldfrapp

    Deer Stop

    Performer: Goldfrapp. Performer: Alexander Bălănescu. Performer: Sonia Slany. Performer: Nick Barr. Performer: Nick Cooper. Performer: Mary Scully.
    • MUTE.

  • Traditional Irish

    Lord Frog & Buckingham House

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Performer: Frank McGuire.
    • Alia Vox.

  • Hawktail

    Frog and Toad

    Performer: Hawktail.
    • Padiddle Records.

  • John Dowland

    The Frogg Galliard P.23a for lute

    Performer: Paul O’Dette.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Susumu Yokota

    Fairy Dance of Twinkle and Shadow

    Performer: Susumu Yokota.
    • Lo Recordings.

  • Henry Purcell

    The Fairy Queen: Prelude & Song - See, Even Night Herself Is Her

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Signum.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Nocturne

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • LSO LIVE.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Peter Grimes, Act 1: 'Now the Great Bear and Pleiades'

    Singer: Peter Pears. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • Decca.

  • Husky Rescue

    Silent Woods

    Performer: Husky Rescue.
    • Catskills Records.

  • Gene Lees

    Nightingale

    Composer: Oscar Peterson. Performer: Oscar Peterson. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Nelson Riddle.
    • Verve Records.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Le rossignol et la rose

    Singer: Rita Streich. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Kurt Gaebel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Leos Janáček

    On an Overgrown Path: The barn owl has not flown away

    Performer: Rudolf Firkušný.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Edward Elgar

    Four Part-Songs, Op 53: Owls

    Ensemble: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Signum.

  • Agnes Obel

    Parliament of Owls

    Performer: Agnes Obel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Herbert Howells

    Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks

    Performer: Philip Scriven. Choir: Choir of Winchester Cathedral.
    • Herald.

  • Stanley Myers

    The Deer Hunter: Cavatina

    Performer: John Williams. Orchestra: Orchestra.
    • Sony.

  • Rain Tree Crow

    New Moon at Red Deer Wallow

    Performer: Mick Karn. Performer: Steve Jansen. Performer: Richard Barbieri. Singer: David Sylvian.
    • Virgin.

  • Thomas Hansen

    People in the Forest

    Performer: St. Thomas.
    • City Slang.

Broadcast

  • Wed 17 Jun 202023:00
    BBC Radio 3

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