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Eclectic music for after dark

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

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BBC Radio 3 & BBC Radio 3 Unwind

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Music Played

  • Christian Forshaw

    Beyond the Causeway

    Performer: Christian Forshaw. Singer: Grace Davidson.
    • Beyond the causeway.
    • Decca.
    • 5.

  • Pau Casals

    Song of the birds

    Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Golden Oldies – More Favourite Encores.
    • Chandos.
    • 18.

  • Kris Drever

    Nest Builder

    Composer: Karine Polwart. Composer: Rachel Newton. Composer: Beth Porter. Composer: Jim Molyneux. Composer: Seckou Keita. Ensemble: Spell Songs.
    • In Thin Air
.
    • Hudson Records.
    • 4.

  • Arthur Somervell

    Clarinet Quintet (3rd mvt, Lament)

    Performer: Stephan Siegenthaler. Ensemble: Leipziger Streichquartett.
    • British Clarinet Quintets.
    • CPO.
    • 3.

  • Chris Watson

    Haefest

    Performer: Chris Watson.
    • In St Cuthbert’s Time.
    • Touch Records.
    • 4.

  • Kathryn Tickell

    Sycamore Gap

    Performer: Kathryn Tickell. Performer: Ian Stephenson.
    • Return To Kielderside
.
    • Resilient Records.
    • 5.

  • Robert Schumann

    The Prophet Bird (Waldscenen, Op 82)

    Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin.
    • Schumann: Kinderszenen & Waldszenen.
    • Hyperion Records.
    • 17.

  • Mats Gustafsson

    Backengrillen

    Composer: Kimmo Pohjonen. Performer: Mats Gustafsson. Performer: Kimmo Pohjonen.
    • Two balls are enough.
    • Trost.
    • 7.

  • Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov

    Behold, Bless the Lord

    Choir: Slavyanka Men’s Russian Chorus. Conductor: Paul Andrews.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Cello Sonata, Op 143 (2nd mvt, Cavatine)

    Performer: Amalie Stalheim. Performer: Christian Ihle Hadland.
    • Stravinsky, Poulenc & Debussy: Works For Cello and Piano.
    • LAWO.
    • 8.

  • Stefano Landi

    Canta la cicaleta

    Singer: Stephan va Dyck. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar.
    • Landi: Arias.
    • Erato.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Three Birds

    Performer: Belle Chen. Music Arranger: Belle Chen.
    • Ravel In The Forest.
    • Hanssler Classics.
    • 3.

  • Annie Bloch

    Gleitflug

    Performer: Annie Bloch.
    • Luvt.
    • OOH Sounds.
    • 3.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Organ Concerto No 7 in B flat major, HWV306 (3rd mvt, Largo e piano)

    Performer: Marie‐Claire Alain. Orchestra: Orchestre de Chambre Jean-Francois Paillard. Conductor: Jean‐François Paillard.
    • Handel: Organ Concertos.
    • Erato.

  • Dhafer Youssef

    Generalife Gardens

    Performer: Daniel García. Performer: Mario Rom. Singer: Dhafer Youssef. Singer: Swaéli Mbappé.
    • Shiraz.
    • ACT.
    • 4.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Goin' Home

    Ensemble: Silk Road Ensemble.
    • Sing Me Home: Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble.
    • Sony.
    • 9.

  • Joseph Marie Clément Dall'Abaco

    11 Capricci for Cello (Capriccio No 1)

    Performer: Kirill Timofeev.
    • Capricci and Bagatelles.
    • Genuin.
    • 1.

  • Sarah Nicholls

    Sleep Scene

    Performer: Sarah Nicholls.
    • We’re inside and outside.
    • Records DK.
    • 9.

  • Albert Brumley

    Give Me Just a Little More Time

    Choir: Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers.
    • Songs From The B. F. White Sacred Harp.
    • Death Is Not The End.
    • 19.

Broadcast

  • Tuesday22:00
    BBC Radio 3 & BBC Radio 3 Unwind