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Harmonious music for nighttime listening

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

1 hour, 30 minutes

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Thu 2 Oct 202522:00
BBC Radio 3 & BBC Radio 3 Unwind

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Music Played

  • Trad.

    Vigstamoin

    Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Wood Works.
    • Dacapo.
    • 3.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Orpheus: Scene 1, Orpheus weeps for Eurydice. Lento sostenuto

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chandos.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Orpheus's Lament (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Performer: Ji Liu. Music Arranger: Wilhelm Kempff.
    • Classic FM.

  • Andrew Bird

    Orpheo

    • Hands of Glory.
    • Mom + Pop.
    • 7.

  • Claude Debussy

    Syrinx

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud.
    • EMI.

  • Mel Bonis

    Phoebée, Op 30

    Performer: Maria Stembolskaya.
    • Ligia.

  • Trio Da Kali and Kronos Quartet

    Sunjata

    • Ladilikan.
    • World Circuit.
    • 9.

  • John Dowland

    Orlando Sleepeth

    Performer: Jonas Nordberg.
    • Lessons.
    • BIS.
    • 13.

  • Awen Ensemble

    Rhyd

    Ensemble: Awen Ensemble.
    • New Soil.

  • Arvo Pärt

    Für Jan van Eyck

    Performer: Ene Salumäe. Choir: Vox Clamantis. Director: Jaan-Eik Tulve.
    • And I heard a voice.
    • ECM.
    • 10.

  • Helen Hopekirk

    The Seal-woman's Sea-joy (Two Tone Pictures)

    Performer: Gary Steigerwalt.
    • Toccata Classics.

  • Granville Bantock

    Prelude (The Seal Woman)

    Composer: Marjory Kennedy‐Fraser. Orchestra: Orchestra of Scottish Opera. Conductor: John Andrews.
    • Retrospect Opera.

  • Anna Phoebe

    Selkie

    • Eat the Peach.

  • Henry Purcell

    When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Stefano Montanari.
    • DECCA.

  • Tapani Rinne & Juha Mäki-Patola

    Fall

    • Open.
    • Hush Hush Records.
    • 9.

  • Ravi Shankar

    Sukanya: Prelude (excerpt)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Murphy.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.

  • Claire M Singer

    Goodbye (from "Tell it to the Bees")

    Performer: Claire M Singer. Orchestra: London Contemporary Orchestra.
    • Universal.

  • Alberto Ginastera

    Suite of native dances, Op 15 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Fernando Viani.
    • Naxos.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Lamento d'Arianna

    Performer: Anastasia Kobekina. Performer: Azul Lima.
    • Venice.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Ashley Paul

    Two Ships

    • Lost in Shadows.
    • Slip.
    • 9.

  • Suzanne Ciani

    Rain

    Performer: Suzanne Ciani.
    • Pianissimo.
    • BMG Ariola.
    • 6.

  • Florence Price

    An Elf on a Moonbeam

    Performer: Anna Lapwood.
    • Luna.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13.

  • Meitei

    Shinkai

    • Komachi.
    • Métron Records.
    • 11.

  • WOOM

    Circe

    • To Slow You.
    • House Anxiety.
    • 2.

  • Lewis Bolland

    Calm Sleep Version

Broadcast

  • Thu 2 Oct 202522:00
    BBC Radio 3 & BBC Radio 3 Unwind

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