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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

• 00:00

  James Rhodes

  Nocturnes - Fetes

  Performer: The Cleveland Orchestra Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy

  • Decca 467 428-2.
  • 3.

• Walt Whitman

  A Clear Midnight

• Emily Dickinson

  Wild Nights

• 00:02

  Aaron Copland

  Rodeo – Corral Nocturne

  Performer: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

  • Naxos 8.559240.
  • 3.

• Charles Tomlinson

  Fireflies

• 00:07

  Mark-Anthony Turnage

  Night Dances - Prelude

  Performer: London Sinfonietta Conductor: Oliver Knussen

  • Argo 452 598-2.
  • 2.

• John Burnside

  The Light Trap

• 00:10

  Toru Takemitsu

  Toward the Sea III – I The Night

  Performer: Aureole Trio

  • Koch 374492.
  • 7.
• 00:13

  Gabriel Fauré

  Apres un Reve

  Performer: Veronique Gens, soprano Performer: Roger Vignoles, piano

  • Virgin Classics VC5453602.
  • 1.

• Billy Collins

  The Night House

• 00:17

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Notturno for 4 Orchestras in D Major

  Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Conductor: Neville Marriner

  • Decca 430 496-2.
  • 12.
• 00:20

  Steve Reich

  Electric Counterpoint - Slow

  Performer: Pat Metheny, guitar

  • Nonesuch.
  • 10.

• Robert Frost

  Acquainted with the Night

• 00:22

  Mann and Hilliard

  In the wee small hours of the morning

  Performer: Frank Sinatra

  • Capitol CDP765712.
  • 1.

• Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  from Flight to Arras

• 00:27

  Alexander Borodin

  String Quartet no 2 in D Major - Notturno

  Performer: Lafayette String Quartet

  • Dorian DOR90203.
  • 3.
• 00:35

  John Sheppard

  In Manus Tuas

  Performer: Clare College Chapel Choir Conductor: Timothy Brown

  • Guild GMCD7108.
  • 18.

• A.E. Housman

  The Weeping Pleiads Wester

• 00:39

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Entr'Actes and Sappho Fragments – The Moon and the seven Pleiades

  Performer: Heidi Grant Murphy Conductor: Paul Hotstetter

  • Koch 3-7486-2111.
  • 24.

• Rachel Carson

  from Silent Spring

• 00:43

  Karol Szymanowski

  Symphony no 3 – Allegretto tranquillo

  Performer: Warsaw Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra Conductor: Antoni Wit

  • Naxos 8570721.
  • 11.

• Pablo Neruda

  Tonight I can Write

• 00:52

  Manuel de Falla

  Noches en los jardines de Espana – Danza lejana

  Performer: Orquesta Cuidad de Granada Conductor: Josep Pons

  • Harmonia Mundi HMC901606.
  • 13.

• Jackie Kay

  This Long Night

• 00:59

  Thelonius Monk, Cootie Williams, Bernie Hanighen

  Round Midnight

  Performer: June Tabor

  • Hannibal HNCD1347.
  • 12.
• 01:02

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Verklarte Nacht

  Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker Conductor: Herbert von Karajan

  • Deutsche Grammophon 4274242.
  • 5.

• Dylan Thomas

  from Under Milk Wood

• 01:08

  Henri Tomasi

  Trumpet Concerto - Nocturne

  Performer: Alison Balsom and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Edward Gardner

  • EMI 3532552.
  • 17.