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Soothing songs from the shoreline ft. Anna Meredith

Ultimate CalmErland Cooper: Series 5
Episode 2 of 12

Drift away with Erland Cooper and a selection of music that ebbs and flows, like tides lapping at the shoreline. Plus composer Anna Meredith shares her musical safe haven.

Scottish composer Erland Cooper takes us to the shoreline for this episode, drawing on his experiences growing up on a rock surrounded by the North Sea and the wild elements. He shares music that ebbs and flows, with wading seabirds, drifting boats, drones and tones, including Claire M Singer, Mary Lattimore and Peter Maxwell Davies.

Plus we travel to the musical safe haven of another Scottish composer, Anna Meredith. She shares the Messiaen piece that always reminds her to take a breath.

Produced by Kit Callin
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Tue 20 Jan 202621:00
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Music Played

  • Jónsi & Alex

    Wind in our ears

    • Lost and Found.
    • Krúnk.

  • Richard Gillis

    Butterfly Mornings

    Performer: Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions.
    • Bavarian Fruit Bread.
    • Rough Trade.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness, Op. 89 No. 1

    Performer: Peter Maxwell Davies.
    • Davies, Peter Maxwell: Farewell to Stromness.
    • Naxos.

  • Duval Timothy

    Grass

    Performer: Duval Timothy.
    • Wishful Thinking.
    • Carrying Colour.

  • Gabríel Ólafs

    Whales at dusk

    Performer: Gabríel Ólafs.
    • Polar: Dusk.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Claire M Singer

    Wrangham

    Performer: Claire M Singer.
    • Solas.
    • Touch.

  • Anna Meredith

    Waterfall

    Performer: Anna Meredith.
    • The End We Start From (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Universal Music.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    Quartet for the End of Time V. Louange à l'Eternité de Jésus

    Performer: Olivier Messiaen. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Song.
    • Decca.

  • Jonny Greenwood

    Alma

    Performer: Jonny Greenwood.
    • Phantom Thread (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Nonesuch Records.

  • Mary Lattimore

    Chop on The Climbout

    Performer: Mary Lattimore.
    • Silver Ladders.
    • Ghostly International.

  • Poppy Ackroyd & Norman Ackroyd

    Notes on Water

    • Notes on Water.
    • One Little Independent Records.

  • Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

    Tides V

    Performer: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith.
    • Tides: Music For Meditation and Yoga.
    • Touchtheplants Studio.

Broadcasts

  • Tue 28 Oct 202521:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Tue 20 Jan 202621:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind