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Ghostly sounds for after-hours

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a spooky Halloween-inspired programme for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between, including supernatural folk songs, an orchestral postcard from Transylvania, haunted houses and a ghostly song of the sea.

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1 hour, 30 minutes

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Tomorrow22:00
BBC Radio 3 Unwind

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Music Played

  • Trad.

    The unquiet grave

    Ensemble: Juice Vocal Ensemble.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    And at the hour of Death [Prelude no.1 in C major BWV.846 (preludes & fugues bk.1)]

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson. Performer: Christian Badzura.

  • The Magnetic Fields

    Ghosts of the marathon dancers

    Performer: The Magnetic Fields.

  • David Garfield

    Voodoo Gumbo

    Performer: Larry Coryell. Performer: David Garfield. Performer: Airto Moreira.

  • William Bolcom

    Graceful ghost rag

    Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin.

  • HK Gruber

    Rat song (Frankenstein!!)

    Conductor: HK Gruber. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

  • Ulrich Herkenhoff

    Postcard from Transylvania (Postcards of a Romanian Journey)

    Performer: Ulrich Herkenhoff. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Toshiyuki Kamioka.

  • Tom Waits

    Whistlin’ past the graveyard

    Performer: Holly Cole.

  • Hermanos Gutiérrez

    Blood milk moon

    Performer: Hermanos Gutiérrez.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lover’s Ghost (5 English Folk Songs)

    Choir: CORO. Conductor: Mark Griffiths.

  • Michel Deneuve

    Danse Célèste

    Performer: Michel Deneuve.

  • Anoushka Shankar & Nils Frahm

    Daydreaming

    Performer: Anoushka Shankar & Nils Frahm.

  • Chihei Hatakeyama

    Phantom cats in cathedral

    Performer: Chihei Hatakeyama.

  • Claude Debussy

    Sirènes

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.

  • Buffy Sainte‐Marie

    The Vampire

    Performer: Buffy Sainte‐Marie.

  • Belle Chen

    Whispering tree

    Performer: Belle Chen.

  • Thomas Tallis

    In manus tuas, Domine

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.

  • Harold Budd

    Grace

    Performer: Harold Budd.

  • Toru Takemitsu

    Spirit garden (extract)

    Orchestra: Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hiroshi Wakasugi.

  • Allie Wrubel

    The masquerade is over

    Performer: Peggy Lee.

Broadcasts

  • Yesterday22:00
    BBC Radio 3
  • Tomorrow22:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind

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