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Nocturnal music to bewitch the senses

In the last hours of Christmas Eve, Hannah Peel presents a sparkling and immersive soundtrack of festive music, from bells to traditional folk, and electronics to carols.

1 hour, 29 minutes

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Christmas Eve 202422:00
BBC Radio 3 & BBC Radio 3 Unwind

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Music Played

  • Percy Grainger

    Blithe Bells (A Free Ramble on Bach's Sheep May Safely Graze)

    Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Tognetti.
    • ABC CLASSICS.

  • Trad.

    Cradle Hymn

    Performer: Tessa Lark. Music Arranger: David Chase. Choir: Essential Voices Usa. Director: Judith Clurman.
    • ACIS PRODUCTIONS.

  • Mark Barrott

    The Light is still there

    • Everything Changes, Nothing Ends.
    • REFLECTIONS / INVOLVED.
    • 8.

  • GÅEL

    Glencoe

    Performer: Alice Allen. Performer: GÅEL.
    • XXX.

  • Terje Isungset

    Ice memories 2007

    • Ice Concerts.
    • ICEMUSIC.
    • 14.

  • Luke Howard

    Solidarity

    Performer: Lara Somogyi. Ensemble: Shards. Conductor: Kieran Brunt.
    • Interlinked.
    • MERCURY.
    • 7.

  • Pál Esterházy

    Dormi Jesu

    Performer: Hera Caius. Performer: Judit Andrejszki. Singer: Márta Sebestyén.
    • Magyar Kultura Kiado.

  • James MacMillan

    Gaude, Gaude! (Veni Veni Emmanuel)

    Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka‐Pekka Saraste.
    • CATALYST.

  • Laraaji

    Zither Dance

    • Two Sides of Laraaji.
    • ALL SAINTS RECORDS.
    • 4.

  • Sufjan Stevens

    Silent Night

    • Silver and Gold.
    • ASTHMATIC KITTY.
    • 1.

  • Lara Jones

    Focus [Single Edit]

    • Dome.
    • Lo Recordings.
    • 4.

  • Terje Isungset

    When ice sings

    • Glacial Poetry.
    • ALL ICE RECORDS.
    • 1.

  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    O magnum mysterium

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • A Spanish Nativity.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 1.

  • Claude Thornhill

    Snowfall

    Music Arranger: Angela Morley. Orchestra: Angela Morley & Her Orchestra.
    • GUILDHALL.

  • Mark Barrott

    It's just like falling asleep

    • Everything Changes, Nothing Ends.
    • REFLECTIONS / INVOLVED.
    • 7.

  • Trad.

    Still, still, still, weils Kindlein schlafen will

    Performer: Rudi Knabl.
    • ORFEO.

  • Hugo Wolf

    Schlafendes Jesuskind (Morike Lieder)

    Singer: Lise Davidsen. Orchestra: Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Eggen.
    • DECCA.

  • Brian Eno & Roger Eno

    Snow

    • Mixing Colours.
    • DG.
    • 9.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Advent Responsory

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Richard Marlow.
    • SONY.

  • Márta Sebestyén

    Született világ megváltója

    Performer: Judit Andrejszki. Singer: Márta Sebestyén.
    • Magyar Kultura Kiado.

  • Franz Liszt

    Lighting the Candles on the Tree (Weihnachtsbaum)

    Performer: Leslie Howard.
    • Liszt: Complete Piano Music 51 – Paralipomènes.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.

  • Elliott Jack Sansom

    Winter Light (Christmas Morning version)

    • Decca Records.

Broadcast

  • Christmas Eve 202422:00
    BBC Radio 3 & BBC Radio 3 Unwind

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