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After Dark Festival: Deep Night Tracks

A special overnight event from the After Dark Festival with Manchester Collective, Memotone, Me Lost Me, Xenia Pestova Bennett, Ed Bennett, and Jason Singh and Jasdeep Singh Degun

Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Hannah Peel host an immersive overnight event recorded live at Radio 3's After Dark Festival at Sage Gateshead.

Live performances include a special collaboration between multi-instrumentalist Memotone and his father, the nature writer Chris Yates, who take us on a night walk through moonlit forests and nocturnal landscapes. Manchester Collective perform music spanning 900 years from Hildegard of Bingen to Edmund Finnis, including Arnold Schoenberg’s luminous β€Transfigured Night’ and Newcastle-based electronic folk innovator Jayne Dent aka Me Lost Me captures the nocturnal atmosphere with original songs and reworkings of traditional ballads. Plus pianist Xenia Pestova Bennett and composer Ed Bennett invite us to get lost in meditative music by Egidija Medeksaite and Gayle Young, as well as original pieces and a radical reinterpretation of Bach's Goldberg Variations for piano and live electronics.

As dawn approaches, the sound artist and beatboxer Jason Singh presents an evocative soundscape of real, manipulated and vocalised β€dawn chorusβ€ birdsong, followed by the Leeds-based sitarist Jasdeep Singh Degun, who welcomes the new day with a traditional north Indian dawn raag.

Part of Radio 3’s After Dark Festival, a major new live music festival for 2022 in partnership with Sage Gateshead and TUSK Music, featuring some of the biggest names in contemporary, classical and experimental music. For all related content, search β€After Dark Festivalβ€ on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Sounds.

5 hours

Last on

Sun 27 Mar 2022 02:00

Music Played

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Three Antiphons: no.1 'O virtus sapientiae'

    Ensemble: Manchester Collective.
  • Me Lost Me

    Binoculars

  • Gayle Young

    Forest Ephemerals - Four Flowers: Part 1 'Forest Ephemerals'

    Performer: Xenia Pestova Bennett.
  • Memotone

    Illuminations (Part I)

  • Edmund Finnis

    String Quartet no.2

    Ensemble: Manchester Collective.
  • Ed Bennett

    Out of Nowhere (part 2)

    Performer: Xenia Pestova Bennett. Performer: Ed Bennett.
  • Ivor Cutler

    Look at the moon [ ]

    Singer: Linda Hirst. Singer: Ivor Cutler. Featured Artist: Linda Hirst.
    • Privilege.
    • Hoorgi House Records.
    • 19.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Interlude 5 'Moonlight' (Peter Grimes Op.53)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Egidija MedekΕ΅aitΔ—

    Chaandanee

    Performer: Xenia Pestova Bennett.
  • Me Lost Me

    Sheepstealer

  • Me Lost Me

    Improvisation

  • Karlheinz Essl

    Gold.Berg.Werk: Var. 15; Aria Electronica II; Var. 16

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach. Performer: Xenia Pestova Bennett. Performer: Ed Bennett.
  • Memotone

    Illuminations (Part II)

  • Trad.

    Tsintskaro

    Performer: Hamlet Gonashvili.
    • Jaro Medien.
  • Ed Bennett

    The Space Between

    Performer: Xenia Pestova Bennett.
  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ΅k

    Nocturne in B major, op.40

    Ensemble: Manchester Collective.
  • Me Lost Me

    Walking

  • Me Lost Me

    I Had a Horse

  • Me Lost Me

    Butterfly Effect

  • Xenia Pestova Bennett

    Alice in Perfect Repose

    Composer: Ed Bennett. Performer: Xenia Pestova Bennett. Performer: Ed Bennett.
  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4

    Ensemble: Manchester Collective.
  • Marisa Anderson

    Into The Light

    • Chaos Kitchen Music.
  • Franz Schubert

    Fruhlingsglaube, D686

    Performer: Jacqueline Robin. Singer: Teresa Stich-Randall.
    • Decca.
  • Park Jiha

    Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans

    • The Gleam.
    • Glitterbeat.
    • 2.
  • Laurie Spiegel

    East River Dawn

    • Unseen Worlds.
  • Mary Ford & Les Paul

    The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise

    • Capitol Records.
  • Ed Bennett

    Static Glass Tones and Drones

    Performer: Ed Bennett.
  • John Dowland

    Pavane "Lachrymae Antiquae"

    Ensemble: Manchester Collective.
  • Memotone

    Illuminations (Part III)

  • Me Lost Me

    Time to Thaw

  • Jason Singh

    Suraj

    Performer: Jason Singh. Performer: Shriram Sampath. Performer: Liz Hanks.
  • Jasdeep Singh Degun

    Raag Ahiri

    Performer: Liam Walker.

Broadcast

  • Sun 27 Mar 2022 02:00

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