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Carolling

Elizabeth Alker shares a playlist of Christmas music with a difference: expect ambient and genre-defying artists with new takes on familiar festive songs and themes.

Produced by Geoff Bird
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3

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Sun 14 Dec 202523:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Tim Hecker

    Heaven Will Come

    • Shards.
    • Kranky.

  • Wojtek Mazolewski

    Dark Ecology

    • Solo.
    • NoPaper Records.

  • Federico Albanese

    Quietude

    • Quietude.
    • XXIM Records.

  • M83

    A Necessary Escape

    • A Necessary Escape - Dakar Chronicles.
    • M83 Recording Inc.

  • Jon Hopkins

    Ritual Part II Palace/Illusion

    • Ritual.
    • Domino.

  • Penelope Trappes

    A Requiem

    • A Requiem.
    • One Little Independent Records.

  • Martin Green

    Red Tannenbaum

    • Red Tannenbaum.

  • VOCES8

    Magnificat Quinti Toni

    • Christmas.
    • Signum Classics.

  • R. Schappert

    Waiting For Nothing

    • HELLHERZ.

  • Hior Chronik & Moshimoss

    Leafless Trees

    • Apofanie.
    • Moderna Records.

  • Anna Meredith

    Anno: Winter: Solstice (Light Out)

    • Anno: Four Seasons by Anna Meredith & Antonio Vivaldi.
    • Moshi Moshi Records.

Broadcast

  • Sun 14 Dec 202523:30
    BBC Radio 3

What is unclassified music?

What is unclassified music?

Elizabeth Alker introduces five of her favourite 'unclassifiable' pieces of music.