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Music after dark

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

1 hour, 29 minutes

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Thu 9 May 202422:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Tom Ashbrook

    Dusk

    • Nocturnes.
    • THE OTHER SONGS.
    • 1.

  • Tapani Rinne & Juha Mäki-Patola

    Branches

    • Decaying Light.
    • Bigo & Twigetti.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Io son ferito ahi lasso

    Performer: Bruce Dickey. Performer: Andrew Lawrence‐King. Performer: Erin Headley. Performer: Stephen Stubbs.
    • "Quel Lascivissimo Cornetto ..." Virtuoso Solo Music For Cornetto.
    • Accent Plus.
    • 7.

  • William Byrd

    This Sweet and Merry Month of May

    Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • An Immortal Legacy.
    • CORO.
    • 8.

  • Thomas Newman

    May

    Ensemble: Studio Musicians.
    • The Shawshank Redemption - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
    • Epic Soundtrax.
    • 1.

  • Quercus

    As I Roved Out

    • Quercus.
    • ECM Records.
    • 3.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    Quatuor pour la fin du Temps: I. Liturgie de cristal

    Performer: Martin Fröst. Performer: Lucas Debargue. Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Torlief Thedeen.
    • Quatuor pour la fin du temps.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Elliott Smith

    Bye

    • Figure 8.
    • DreamWorks Records.
    • 16.

  • Christopher Simpson

    May a 4 (The Monthes)

    Ensemble: L’Achéron. Director: François Joubert‐Caillet.
    • A Consort’s Monument.
    • Ricercar.
    • 4.

  • Träd

    Mae'r Ddaear Yn Glasu (The Earth Is Becoming Green)

    Performer: Siwsann George. Performer: Roger Plater. Performer: Robin Huw Bowen. Performer: Ceri Matthews. Music Arranger: Roger Plater.
    • Traditional Songs Of Wales (Caneuon Traddodiadol Cymru).
    • SAYDISC.
    • 4.

  • Mike Olsen

    Mayday

    • Hand Drawn Dracula.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Suite for viola & orchestra: Group 2 Ballad. Lento Non Troppo

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jamie Phillips.
    • Music For Viola & Chamber Orchestra.
    • Claves.
    • 4.

  • Emmanuel de la Paix

    Ekkos

    • The Physics of Clouds.
    • STRAIGHT TO YOUR BRAIN.
    • 3.

  • Selim Palmgren

    Toukokuu, Op 27 No 4. Kevatyo May night

    Performer: Henri Sigfridsson.
    • Sonata, Op. 11 / 24 Preludes, Op. 17.
    • Ondine.
    • 4.

  • The Chieftains

    The May Morning Dew

    • Water from the Well.
    • RCA Victor.
    • 11.

  • Stimming

    Morgentau

    • Elderberry.
    • AWESOME SOUNDWAVE.
    • 1.

  • Roman Hoffstetter

    String Quartet in F Major Op.3 no.5 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Alban Berg Quartett.
    • Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 33 No. 3 'The Bird', Op. 77 Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 13.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    May - Spring song (The Year)

    Performer: Christina Bjørkøe.
    • Das Jahr - 12 Charakterstücke für Klavier.
    • DANACORD.
    • 5.

  • Silvana Estrada

    Brindo

    • Abrazo.
    • Glassnote Music, LLC.

  • PC Nackt

    Space_Schubert

    • Plunderphonia.
    • 7K!.

  • PC Nackt

    Exosphere_Schubert (excerpt)

    • Plunderphonia.
    • 7K!.
    • 2.

  • Florence Price

    String Quartet in G major (Unfinished): 2nd mvt

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • UNCOVERED Volume 2: Florence B. Price.
    • AZICA RECORDS.
    • 19.

  • Tara Nome Doyle

    Hush

    • Agape.
    • CITRINITAS RECORDS.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Thu 9 May 202422:00
    BBC Radio 3

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