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Music for sleep

Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a musical meditation on sleep and dreams, including an exclusive preview of a brand new track from Isobel Waller-Bridge for World Sleep Day.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a musical meditation on sleep and dreams, including an exclusive preview of a brand new track from Isobel Waller-Bridge for World Sleep Day. We also hear R.I.P. Hayman's music for a sleeping audience, 'Dreamsound', and drift into a land of dreams after midnight with music by Lea Bertucci, Max Richter and Aidan O'Rourke.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 17 Mar 2021 23:00

Music Played

  • John Dowland

    Come Heavy Sleep

    Ensemble: Ensemble Orlando Gibbons. Conductor: G茅rard Lesne.
    • Naive.
  • Valgeir Sigur冒sson

    Somnoptera

    Performer: Liam Byrne. Performer: James McVinnie.
    • Bedroom Community.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    On an Overgrown Path, Book I: No. 7, Good Night!

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Erato.
  • R.I.P. Hayman

    Dreamsound [extract]

    Performer: R.I.P. Hayman.
    • Audio Graphics.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 arranged for string trio

    Performer: Julian Rachlin. Performer: Nobuko Imai. Performer: Mischa Maisky. Music Arranger: Dmitry Sitkovetsky.
    • DG.
  • Duke Ellington

    Tonight I Shall Sleep With A Smile On My Face

    Ensemble: The Stan Getz Quartet.
    • Hi Hat.
  • Isobel Waller-Bridge

    Illuminations

    Performer: Isobel Waller-Bridge.
    • Mercury KX.
  • Ernest John Moeran

    3 Piano Pieces: The Lake Island

    Performer: Una Hunt.
    • ASV.
  • Tristan Perich

    Drift Multiply: section 1

    Conductor: Douglas Perkins.
    • New Amsterdam.
  • Johann Lindvall

    As though it had shut its eyes

    Performer: Fredrik Rasten.
    • Edition Wandelweiser Records.
  • Tarquinio Merula

    Canzonetta Spirituale sopra alla nanna "Hor ch'猫 tempo di morire"

    Singer: Sara Mingardo. Orchestra: Concerto Italiano.
    • Naive.
  • Hiroshi Yoshimura

    Sleep

    Performer: Hiroshi Yoshimura.
    • Light in the Attic.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 13 a 2 Clav

    Performer: Joanna MacGregor.
    • Sound Circus.
  • Lea Bertucci

    On Opposite Sides of Sleep

    Performer: Lea Bertucci.
    • Cibachrome Editions.
  • Traditional Malaysian

    Penhe:y

    Performer: Uda Anak Perempuan Tengah.
    • Smithsonian.
  • Max Richter

    Dream 8 (late and soon)

    Performer: Max Richter.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Aidan O鈥橰ourke

    I Had a Dream in Which I Had Forgotten Almost Everything

    Performer: Aidan O鈥橰ourke.
    • Reveal Records.
  • Donald WG Lindsay

    International Bagpipe Day

    Composer: Richard Youngs. Performer: Donald WG Lindsay. Performer: Richard Youngs.
    • Good Energy.
  • Franz Schubert

    Nacht und Traume

    Composer: Max Reger. Performer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

Broadcast

  • Wed 17 Mar 2021 23:00

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