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A musical moment of calm amongst rocks and stone ft. Lara Somogyi

Ultimate CalmErland Cooper: Series 5
Episode 11 of 12

Escape with Erland Cooper into the realms of calm with geologically inspired selections. Plus the harpist and composer Lara Somogyi shares her musical safe haven.

In this series of Ultimate Calm, we’ve been roaming the natural world, exploring the musical realms of psychogeography, the memory of landscape, people, place and time. Art and music can help to conjure up an internal landscape to explore, and in this episode, we walk the contours of rock and stone, with songs from Ennio Morricone, Hania Rani, Maria Somerville and words from the poet laureate, Simon Armitage.

Plus, we’re transported to the musical safe haven of harpist and composer, Lara Somogyi, an artist whose home in Joshua Tree is surrounded by the power of the rocks.

Produced by Cat Gough
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Music Played

  • Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka

    Suosan

    • Hiraeth.
    • Unsound (4).

  • Lara Somogyi & Jean‐Michel Blais

    Mythes

    • Désert.
    • Decca.

  • Patricia Wolf

    Guginn and Muninn

    • Hrafnamynd.
    • Balmat.

  • Phil Smith

    Hvar (Dream of Islands)

    • Zwischenzeit (bonus tracks from Tagebuch).
    • Kit Records.

  • Maria Somerville

    Realt

    • Luster.
    • 4AD.

  • Ennio Morricone

    Gabriel's Oboe

    • Original Soundtrack From The Film "The Mission".
    • Virgin.

  • John Carroll Kirby

    Walking through a house where a family has lived

    • Conflict.
    • Stones Throw Records.

  • LYR

    Leaves on the Line

    • Call In The Crash Team.
    • Mercury KX.

  • Nailah Hunter

    Soil: Song From Silence

    • Soil: Song from Silence.
    • Leaving Records.

  • Phi‐Psonics

    Where We've Been

    • Octava.
    • Gondwana Records.

  • Cyrus Reynolds

    Night Phase I. Waves

    • Night Phases.
    • Faber Alt.

  • Anja Lauvdal

    Gertrude

    • Farewell to Faraway Friends (Wurlitzer Improvisations 2021-23).
    • Smalltown Supersound.

  • Ishmael Ensemble

    Feather

    • Visions Of Light.
    • Severn Songs.

  • Aphex Twin

    Avril 14th

    • Drukqs.
    • Warp Records.

  • Hania Rani

    Piano Concerto In Four Movements - I.II Animato

    • Non Fiction - Piano Concerto in Four Movements.
    • Decca Records.

  • n‐So

    Mountain Song

    • Out of the Valley.
    • Moderna Records.

  • A Winged Victory for the Sullen

    The Haunted Victorian Pencil

    • The Undivided Five.
    • Ninja Tune.

  • Blue Lake

    Sun Arcs

    • Sun Arcs.
    • Tonal Union.

  • Jon Hopkins

    Small Memory

    • Insides.
    • Double Six.

  • Flaer

    Souvenir

    • Odda Recordings.

Broadcasts

  • Fri 7 Nov 202521:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Fri 30 Jan 202621:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind