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Sounds for fresh starts ft. Stephen Fry

Ultimate CalmErland Cooper: Series 6
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Scottish composer Erland Cooper returns for a new series, with a reflective selection of music inspired by beginnings. Plus we visit the musical safe haven of Sir Stephen Fry.

Scottish composer Erland Cooper returns to the captain’s seat for a new series of Ultimate Calm, steering us into calm waters with musical selections close to his heart, guided by the elemental, the natural world and his experiences growing up in Orkney.

To kick off this new series, Erland looks for inspiration in the very concept of beginning itself, with a selection of music that has the feeling of starting anew. We’ll hear music from the likes of Laura Misch, Robbie Basho and Ichiko Aoba, and as in every episode of Ultimate Calm, we’ll travel to the musical safe haven of a very special guest. We begin this series with none other than Sir Stephen Fry, who shares the cinematic piece by Liszt that he finds utterly ravishing.

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Music Played

  • Blu Miles & Alaskan Tapes

    Blank Slate

    • Blank Slate/Open Space.
    • We All Speak In Poems.

  • Ministry of Interior Spaces

    Katie's Apartment WA

    • Life, Death and the Perpetual Wound.

  • Laura Misch

    Alchemy (Isobel Waller-Bridge rework)

    • Alchemy 'Ambient Reworks'.
    • One Little Independent Records.

  • Drexler

    Kirrikee

    • Kirrikee.

  • Ichiko Aoba

    Red Silence

    • Ichiko Aoba with 12 Ensemble (Live at Milton Court).
    • Hermine.

  • Robbie Basho

    Clair de Lune (for Twelve-String)

    • Live in Forli, Italy 1982.

  • Tony Njoku

    O.T.B.O.F.

    • All Our Knives Are Always Sharp.
    • Studio Njoku.

  • Franz Liszt

    Liszt: Années de pèlerinage: 1e année: Suisse, S.160: 6. Vallée d'Obermann

    Performer: Jorge Bolet.
    • Liszt Piano Works, Vol. 5.

  • Yana

    Intro, Now It Begins, Daydreaming (Live at the Royal Lazienki Museum)

    • Live session at the Royal Lazienki Museum in Warsaw.
    • OPIA Community.

  • Patrick Jonsson

    Suddenly We Looked Like Giants

    • Suddenly We Looked Like Giants.

  • Kira Kira

    Holding Space For The Unimaginable

    • Holding Space For The Unimaginable.

  • Amanda Seyfried & Daniel Blumberg

    Clothed by the sun

    • The Testament of Ann Lee (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Milan Records.

Broadcast

  • Monday21:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind

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