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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 3’s 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 β€œAfter Dark Festival” in ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Sounds.

Release date:

2 hours, 21 minutes

Music Played

  • 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 DvoΕ™Γ‘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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