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Music for sleep

Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a musical meditation on sleep and dreams, including an exclusive preview of a brand new track from Isobel Waller-Bridge for World Sleep Day.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a musical meditation on sleep and dreams, including an exclusive preview of a brand new track from Isobel Waller-Bridge for World Sleep Day. We also hear R.I.P. Hayman's music for a sleeping audience, 'Dreamsound', and drift into a land of dreams after midnight with music by Lea Bertucci, Max Richter and Aidan O'Rourke.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 17 Mar 202123:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • John Dowland

    Come Heavy Sleep

    Ensemble: Ensemble Orlando Gibbons. Conductor: Gérard Lesne.
    • Naive.

  • Valgeir Sigurðsson

    Somnoptera

    Performer: Liam Byrne. Performer: James McVinnie.
    • Bedroom Community.

  • Leos Janáček

    On an Overgrown Path, Book I: No. 7, Good Night!

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Erato.

  • R.I.P. Hayman

    Dreamsound [extract]

    Performer: R.I.P. Hayman.
    • Audio Graphics.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 arranged for string trio

    Performer: Julian Rachlin. Performer: Nobuko Imai. Performer: Mischa Maisky. Music Arranger: Dmitry Sitkovetsky.
    • DG.

  • Duke Ellington

    Tonight I Shall Sleep With A Smile On My Face

    Ensemble: The Stan Getz Quartet.
    • Hi Hat.

  • Isobel Waller-Bridge

    Illuminations

    Performer: Isobel Waller-Bridge.
    • Mercury KX.

  • Ernest John Moeran

    3 Piano Pieces: The Lake Island

    Performer: Una Hunt.
    • ASV.

  • Tristan Perich

    Drift Multiply: section 1

    Conductor: Douglas Perkins.
    • New Amsterdam.

  • Johann Lindvall

    As though it had shut its eyes

    Performer: Fredrik Rasten.
    • Edition Wandelweiser Records.

  • Tarquinio Merula

    Canzonetta Spirituale sopra alla nanna "Hor ch'è tempo di morire"

    Singer: Sara Mingardo. Orchestra: Concerto Italiano.
    • Naive.

  • Hiroshi Yoshimura

    Sleep

    Performer: Hiroshi Yoshimura.
    • Light in the Attic.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 13 a 2 Clav

    Performer: Joanna MacGregor.
    • Sound Circus.

  • Lea Bertucci

    On Opposite Sides of Sleep

    Performer: Lea Bertucci.
    • Cibachrome Editions.

  • Traditional Malaysian

    Penhe:y

    Performer: Uda Anak Perempuan Tengah.
    • Smithsonian.

  • Max Richter

    Dream 8 (late and soon)

    Performer: Max Richter.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Aidan O’Rourke

    I Had a Dream in Which I Had Forgotten Almost Everything

    Performer: Aidan O’Rourke.
    • Reveal Records.

  • Donald WG Lindsay

    International Bagpipe Day

    Composer: Richard Youngs. Performer: Donald WG Lindsay. Performer: Richard Youngs.
    • Good Energy.

  • Franz Schubert

    Nacht und Traume

    Composer: Max Reger. Performer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

Broadcast

  • Wed 17 Mar 202123:00
    BBC Radio 3

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