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Music for the darkling hour

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

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1 hour, 29 minutes

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Tue 23 Dec 202522:00
BBC Radio 3 & BBC Radio 3 Unwind

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Music Played

  • Tor Lundvall

    Blankets of Snow

    • Ice.
    • Eternal Autumn Editions.
    • 20.

  • Lavinia Meijer

    A Winter Interlude (After Schubert)

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • Winter.
    • SONY.
    • 3.

  • Anonymous

    Missa Veterem Hominem (England, Ca. 1440)

    Performer: Blue Heron Renaissance Choir. Performer: Scott Metcalfe.
    • Christmas in Medieval England.
    • BLUE HERON.

  • Franco Robert

    Frozen Memory

    • Winter Vol 2.
    • BIGO AND TWIGETTI.
    • 10.

  • Björk

    Frosti

    • Vespertine.
    • Elektra.
    • 6.

  • Matthew Toogood & Nationaltheater-Orchester Mannheim

    Frosti

    • Vespertine.
    • OEHMS.
    • 11.

  • Ryuichi Sakamoto

    Out of Horse

    • The Revenant.
    • MILAN.
    • 11.

  • Nikolaus Newerkla

    This is the truth sent from above

    Ensemble: Quadriga Consort.
    • On a Cold Winter's Day - Early Christmas Music and Carols from the British Isles.
    • DEUTSCHE.
    • 14.

  • Daniel Herskedal

    Ice Crystals

    • Call for Winter.
    • EDITION RECORDS.

  • Luca Mauri, Matteo Uggeri & Francesco Giannico

    9:01 am : Melt

    • Pagetos.
    • BORING MACHINES.
    • 4.

  • Blossom Street Choir & Hilary Campbell

    Sleep, Holy Babe

    • Christmas Lullabies.
    • NAXOS.

  • Hiroshi Yoshimura

    Ice Copy

    • Music for Nine Post Cards.
    • Sound Process.
    • 5.

  • Sophia Jani

    When the Sun is Low

    • Sakamoto on Guitar.
    • SQUAMA.

  • Danny Clay

    No More Darkness, No More Night - Part 3

    Performer: Kevin Rogers. Performer: Otis Harriel. Performer: Taija Warbelow. Performer: Taija Warbelow. Performer: Doug Machiz. Performer: Doug Machiz. Performer: Danny Clay. Performer: Danny Clay.
    • No More Darkness, No More Night.
    • LAAPS.
    • 3.

  • Terje Isungset & Maria Skranes

    Silent Folk

    • All Ice Records.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Improvisation on Vivaldi: Winter ('The Four Seasons', Concerto No 4 'Winter')

    Composer: Gabriela Montero. Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • Baroque.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
    • 10.

  • Valgeir Sigurðsson

    1875 II. In the dead of winter

    Orchestra: Reykjavík Sinfonia.
    • Dissonance.
    • BEDROOM COMMUNITY.
    • 2.

  • John Tavener

    Ex Maria Virgine - Sweet was the Song

    Performer: James McVinnie. Performer: Timothy Brown. Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge.
    • Tavener: Ex Maria Virgine, Angels, Etc.
    • NAXOS.
    • 4.

  • Yuya Ota

    Maria

    • Arctic April Mother.
    • Glacial Movements Records.
    • 4.

  • BRIGHDE CHAIMBUEL

    Dùsgadh/Waking

    • Sunwise.
    • Self Release.
    • 1.

  • Andrew Bird

    Night's Falling

    • Hark!.
    • Loma Vista.
    • 8.

Broadcast

  • Tue 23 Dec 202522:00
    BBC Radio 3 & BBC Radio 3 Unwind

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