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Midnight in the garden

Hannah Peel with a special immersive soundtrack dedicated to the music of plants. From evocations of gardens and growing to music played on vegetables and created by spider plants

Hannah Peel with an special immersive soundtrack dedicated to the music of plants.

We'll be immersed in musical gardens from Puccini to Radiohead, Debussy to Caroline Shaw, and many more,as well as experimental electronic paeans to the plant world with Stevie Wonder's 'Secret Life of Plants' and electronic pioneer Mort Garson 'Mother's Earth Plantasia'

Hannah also mixes in music made with and by the plants themselves - from listening in to the biochemistry of a singing snake plant, to delving beneath the bark of a horse chestnut tree via the Tree Listening Project.

And if you've ever wondered what the avant-garde in the hands (or stalks?) of veg sounds like - then we've got the Vegetable Orchestra who craft their instruments from vegetables creating big beats from their carrot marimbas, gurkeridoos and calabash with parsleysticks...

1 hour, 30 minutes

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Tue 18 Aug 2020 23:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • David Bowie

    Moss Garden

    • Heros.
    • EMI.
    • 8.

  • Claude Debussy

    Bruy猫res arr for orchestra (from Preludes)

    Music Arranger: Colin Matthews. Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Jeux - Preludes.
    • Hall茅 Concerts Society.
    • 9.

  • Matthew Halsall

    The Sun in September

    • Fletcher Moss Park.
    • Gondwana Records.
    • 6.

  • Stevie Wonder

    The First Garden

    • Stevie Wonder's Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants - Volume I.
    • Motown.
    • 2.

  • Traditional Danish

    Now Found is the Fairest of Roses

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Last Leaf.
    • ECM.
    • 16.

  • Caroline Shaw

    Plan & Elevation: III. The Herbaceous Border

    Ensemble: Attacca Quartet.
    • Orange.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 5.

  • Yosi Horikawa

    Gull

    Performer: Yosi Horikawa.
    • Touch.
    • yosihorikawa-eklektik.bandcamp.
    • 4.

  • Mort Garson

    Rhapsody in Green

    • Mother Earth's Plantasia.
    • Sacred Bones Records.
    • 1.

  • Jonathan Dove

    Figures in the Garden - Nocturne Figaro and Susanna

    Conductor: Jonathan Dove. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • The Very Best of Glyndebourne on Record.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 15.

  • The Ink Spots

    Whispering Grass (don't tell the trees)

    • Smash Records.

  • Anandi Bhattacharya

    Flor de Puja (Flowers of Rain)

    • Joys Abound.
    • Riverboat Records.
    • 7.

  • Catrin Finch

    Listen to the Grass Grow

    • Soar.
    • bendigedig.
    • 6.

  • Einojuhani Rautavaara

    In the Shade of the Willow: No. 1, Melancholy

    Choir: Helsingin kamarikuoro. Conductor: Timo Nuoranne.
    • Rautavaara: 90th Anniversary Edition.
    • Ondine.
    • 15.

  • Balmorhea

    First Light

    • Clear Language.
    • Western Vinyl.
    • 10.

  • Pierre Dutour

    Deer Forest

    • Top Fiction.
    • Tele Music.
    • 1.

  • Alex Metcalf

    HORSE CHESTNUT Tree recording

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Cristanemi

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • 100 Best Puccini.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Radiohead

    Treefingers

  • The Vegetable Orchestra

    Hyperroots

    Orchestra: The Vegetable Orchestra.
    • Green Album.
    • Transacoustic Research.
    • 8.

  • Christopher DiPietro

    Pomegranate

    Composer: Kristen Drymala. Ensemble: Quarterly.
    • Pomegranate.
    • Whatever's Clever.
    • 3.

  • 罢谤盲诲

    Apples, Plums, Cherries

    Music Arranger: Kerry Andrew. Ensemble: Juice Vocal Ensemble.
    • Snow Queens.
    • Resonus.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sheep May Safely Graze

    Performer: Gabriela Montero. Music Arranger: Gabriela Montero.
    • Bach & Beyond.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 8.

  • Minnie Riperton

    Come to My Garden

    • Come To My Garden.
    • Castle Music.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Tue 18 Aug 2020 23:00
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