After Dark Festival: Deep Night Mix
Music spanning 900 years in a nocturnal mix from Radio 3's After Dark Festival
A nocturnal mix from the Deep Night Tracks event at Radio 3's After Dark Festival - an immersive overnight experience in the main hall at Sage Gateshead, hosted by Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Hannah Peel, with the audience on beanbags listening to live performances from Manchester Collective, Memotone, Me Lost Me, Xenia Pestova Bennett and Ed Bennett.
In this mix, Manchester Collective play music spanning 900 years from Hildegard of Bingen to Edmund Finnis, Newcastle-based electronic folk innovator Jayne Dent aka Me Lost Me captures the nocturnal atmosphere with original songs and reworkings of traditional ballads, pianist Xenia Pestova Bennett and composer Ed Bennett present meditative music by Egidija Medeksaite and Gayle Young, and part of 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.
Radio 3βs After Dark Festival is a major new live music festival for 2022 featuring some of the biggest names in contemporary, classical and experimental music. For all related content, including the full 5-hour experience of Deep Night Tracks, search βAfter Dark Festivalβ in ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Sounds.
Music Played
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Hildegard von Bingen
Three Antiphons: no.1 'O virtus sapientiae'
Performer: Manchester Collective. -
Jayne Dent
Binoculars
Performer: Me Lost Me. -
Gayle Young
Forest Ephemerals - Four Flowers: Part 1 'Forest Ephemeral'
Performer: Xenia Pestova Bennett. -
William Yates
Illuminations (Part 1)
Performer: Memotone. -
Edmund Finnis
String Quartet no.2
Performer: Manchester Collective. -
Ed Bennett
Out of Nowhere (part 2)
Performer: Xenia Pestova Bennett. -
Ivor Cutler
Look at the moon
Performer: Ivor Cutler. Performer: Linda Hirst. -
Benjamin Britten
Interlude 5 'Moonlight' (Peter Grimes Op.53)
Performer: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. -
Egidija MedekΕ‘aitΔ
Chaandanee
Performer: Xenia Pestova Bennett. -
Traditional
Sheepstealer
Performer: Me Lost Me. -
Jayne Dent
Improvisation
Performer: Me Lost Me. -
Karlheinz Essl
Gold.Berg.Werk: Var. 15; Aria Electronica II; Var. 16
Performer: Xenia Pestova Bennett. Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach. -
William Yates
Illuminations (Part 2)
Performer: Memotone. -
Hamlet Gonashvili
Tsintskaro
Performer: Hamlet Gonashvili. -
Ed Bennett
The Space Between
Performer: Xenia Pestova Bennett. -
AntonΓn DvoΕΓ‘k
Nocturne in B major, op.40
Performer: Manchester Collective. -
Jayne Dent
Walking
Performer: Me Lost Me. -
Jayne Dent
I Had a Horse
Performer: Me Lost Me. -
Jayne Dent
Butterfly Effect
Performer: Me Lost Me. -
Xenia Pestova Bennett
Alice in Perfect Repose
Performer: Xenia Pestova Bennett. Composer: Ed Bennett.
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