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Meditative music for night owls

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

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Sun 22 Nov 202622:00
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Music Played

  • Anon

    Duo et hora

    Performer: Viktor Kopatchinsky.
    • Kopatchinskaja: Rapsodia.
    • Naive.
    • 8.

  • Erno Dohnanyi

    Sextet Op.37 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Kálmán Berkes. Performer: Radovan Vlatković. Performer: Gábor Takács‐Nagy. Performer: Gábor Ormai. Performer: András Fejér. Performer: Sir András Schiff.
    • Dohnányi: Piano Quintet & Piano Sextet.
    • Decca.
    • 6.

  • Mahan Mirarab

    A way to mourn

    Performer: Mahan Mirarab. Performer: Lars Danielsson.
    • Unspoken.
    • ACT.
    • 2.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Orfeo ed Euridice (Melodie dell'Orfeo)

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Music Arranger: Giovanni Sgambati.
    • Yuja Wang: Fantasia.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • Davide Cedolin

    Benandants

    Performer: Davide Cedolin. Performer: Tommaso Rolando. Performer: Simone Mattiolo.
    • Cjera Aʃìn.
    • Rustic Lights.
    • 5.

  • Max Di Carlo

    Antro

    Performer: Max Di Carlo. Performer: Reda Zine. Performer: Gioele Pagliaccia.
    • Antro.
    • Massimiliano Di Carlo Records.
    • 2.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Crisantemi

    Music Arranger: Lucas Drew. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ivan Repušić.
    • Puccini: Orchestral Works.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 103.

  • Colin Stetson

    All the light in the world

    Composer: Brìghde Chaimbeul. Performer: Colin Stetson. Performer: Brìghde Chaimbeul.
    • Invada Records.

  • Bob Chilcott

    Canticles of Light (O nata lux de lumine)

    Choir: NFM Chorus Wroclaw. Ensemble: Instrumentalists of the Wrocław Philharmonic. Conductor: Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny.
    • Bob Chilcott: Canticles of Light.
    • Signum.
    • 3.

  • Farah Kaddour

    We Were Born in Purgatory

    Composer: Marwan Tohme. Performer: Farah Kaddour. Performer: Marwan Tohme.
    • Ghazel.
    • Ruptured Records.
    • 6.

  • William Whitney Pursell

    Christ Looking Over Jerusalem

    Orchestra: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Howard Hanson.
    • Music for Quiet Listening.
    • Mercury.
    • 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ascension Oratorio BWV.11 (Nun lieget Alles unter dir)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SDG.

  • Francesca Gaza

    Varco / Principio

    Ensemble: Kugelformigkeit Ensemble.
    • Crown Shyness.
    • New Amsterdam Records.
    • 8.

  • Leoš Janáček

    In tears (On an Overgrown Path)

    Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin.
    • Schumann - Kinderszenen & Waldszenen; Janacek - On the overgrown path I..
    • HYPERION.
    • 9.

  • Karine Polwart

    Make Your Heart a Cradle

    Ensemble: Spell Songs.
    • In Thin Air.
    • Hudson Records.
    • 2.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Nightingale (The Birds - suite)

    Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège. Conductor: John Neschling.
    • Respighi: The Birds & Ancient Dances and Airs.
    • BIS.
    • 104.

  • Steve Reich

    Quartet (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Colin Currie Group.
    • Pulse/Quartet.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 3.

  • Mats Berglund Trio

    Första valsen på Finnskogen

    Ensemble: Mats Berglund Trio.
    • Längs med gränsen.
    • Taragot Sounds.
    • 5.

  • George Gershwin

    Summertime / Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

    Composer: DuBose Heyward. Performer: Ralph Jones. Performer: Mildred Falls. Performer: Milt Hinton. Performer: Osie Johnson. Singer: Mahalia Jackson.
    • Bless this house.
    • AMIGA.

  • Steve Luck

    Blue Dot

Broadcasts

  • Last Wednesday22:00
    BBC Radio 3 & BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Sun 22 Nov 202622:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind