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The Sound of Sleep

Edwin Outwater conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a concert devised by BBC Open Music Trainees; a musical journey through patterns of sleep. Presented by Katie Derham.

Edwin Outwater conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a concert devised by BBC Open Music Trainees as they take us on a musical journey through the different patterns and states of sleep.

From Alexander Palace Theatre.

Presented by Katie Derham.

Philip Glass: Symphony No.3 (1st mvt)
Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit - Le Gibet
Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
Robin Haigh: SLEEPTALKER

----INTERVAL----

Celeste Waite, arr George Moore: Strange
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major
Mussorgsky: Night on the Bald Mountain
Max Richter: On the Nature of Daylight

Mishka Momen (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor Edwin Outwater
Director Ruth Mariner

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Music Played

  • Philip Glass

    Symphony No 3 (first movement)

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Edwin Outwater.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Gaspard de la nuit: No 2 - Le Gibet

    Performer: Mishka Momen.

  • Missy Mazzoli

    SInfonia for Orbiting Spheres

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Edwin Outwater.

  • Robin Haigh

    SLEEPTALKER

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Edwin Outwater.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    Northern Lights

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Decca.

  • Erik Satie

    Gymnopedie No 1

    Performer: Anne Queffélec.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Sleep

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers.
    • Decca.

  • Franz Liszt

    Dante Sonata (Annees de pelerinage, Book 2)

    Performer: Lukas Sternath.
    • No Silence Records.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Kala kalla (Five Hebrew Love Songs)

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Choir: Laudibus. Ensemble: Pavão String Quartet. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Eric Whitacre, Light & Gold.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Yesterday 19:30
    BBC Radio 3