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A little night music

Night Tracks embraces hygge, wraps up warm, lights the candles and looks to the dancing flames for comfort, hope and a sense of wonder.

1 hour, 30 minutes

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Mon 14 Dec 202023:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Trad.

    Sankta Lucia

    Performer: Svante Henryson. Performer: Markus Leoson. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter.
    • DG.

  • Evelyn Glennie

    Light in Darkness

    Performer: Evelyn Glennie.
    • RCA VICTOR.

  • Sinikka Langeland

    Pillar to Heaven

    Performer: Trygve Seim. Performer: Anders Jormin. Performer: Markku Ounaskari. Performer: Arve Henriksen. Performer: Sinikka Langeland. Ensemble: Trio Mediæval.
    • ECM.

  • Billy Mayerl

    Song of the fir-tree

    Performer: Philip Dyson.
    • ASV.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Solveig's Song (Peer Gynt Suite no.2 Op.55)

    Orchestra: Malmö SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • NAXOS.

  • Elskavon

    Refrost

    Composer: John Hayes. Performer: Elskavon. Performer: John Hayes.
    • Western Vinyl.

  • PIQSIQ

    Qimuksiq: Dogsled Ride

    Singer: Kayley Inuksuk Mackay. Singer: Tiffany Kuliktana Ayalik.
    • Quviasugvik: In Search of Harmony.
    • Digital download.

  • Trad.

    'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime

    Music Arranger: Nikolaus Newerkla. Ensemble: Quadriga Consort.
    • GRAMOLA.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    Tundra

    Performer: Ola Gjeilo. Performer: Thomas Gould. Performer: Ciaran McCabe. Performer: Jon Thorne. Performer: Matthew Sharp. Choir: Tenebrae.
    • DECCA.

  • Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff

    Chant from a Holy Book

    Performer: Anja Lechner. Performer: Vassilis Tsabropoulos. Music Arranger: Anja Lechner. Music Arranger: Vassilis Tsabropoulos.
    • ECM NEW SERIES.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O Quam Mirabilis Est

    Ensemble: Taracea.
    • ALPHA.

  • Simon Kirby

    Sing the Gloaming: Reconstructed_Form

    Composer: Tommy Perman. Composer: Rob St. John. Performer: Simon Kirby. Performer: Tommy Perman. Performer: Rob St. John.
    • Sing the Gloaming.
    • Blackford Hill.
    • 4.

  • Brian Eno

    Celeste

    Composer: Roger Eno. Performer: Brian Eno. Performer: Roger Eno.

  • Gunnar Idenstam

    Northern Bells

    Composer: Erik Rydvall. Performer: Gunnar Idenstam. Performer: Erik Rydvall.
    • Toccata Next.

  • Biosphere

    Bergsbotn II

    Performer: Biosphere.
    • The Senja Recordings.
    • Biophon Records.

  • Björk

    Aurora

    Performer: Björk.
    • ONE LITTLE INDIAN.

  • Ödland

    Santa Lucia

    Ensemble: Ödland.
    • Sankta Lucia.
    • Self-release.
    • 19.

  • John Lewis

    Skating in Central Park

    Ensemble: The Modern Jazz Quartet.
    • BLUE NOTE.

  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    New York Skyline

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • DECCA.

  • Heathered Pearls

    Life Out Of Balance

    Performer: Heathered Pearls. Performer: santpoort. Performer: Krzysztof Wodiczko.
    • Ghostly International.

  • Julie Fowlis

    The snow hare

    Composer: Karine Polwart. Performer: Karine Polwart. Lyricist: Robert Macfarlane. Singer: Julie Fowlis.
    • The Lost Words: Spell Songs.
    • Quercus Records.

  • Vangelis

    Memories of Green (Blade Runner)

    Performer: Vangelis.
    • POLYDOR.

  • Charles Derringer

    Keeper of the Flame

    Singer: Nina Simone.
    • VERVE RECORDS.

Broadcast

  • Mon 14 Dec 202023:00
    BBC Radio 3

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