Poster Max Richter's 'Sleep'
This episode of 'Extra Eclectic' features music by Max Richter.
Mike Terry
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The world above

Extra Eclectic - July 30, 2025

After last week’s ballet episode explored things above and below as its secondary theme, we’re looking exclusively skyward on this episode of Extra Eclectic — with music celebrating the sun, the stars and even the aurora. We hear Max Richter’s music from the film Ad Astra, Jacob ter Velduis’s Piano Concerto No. 2 (Sky Falling), Olivia Bellis’ Limina Luminis and much more. 

Playlist

Choirbook: The Milky Way
Jesper Koch
Flemming Windekilde, conductor
Danish National Vocal Ensemble
Dacapo 220627

Ad Astra: The Wanderer
Max Richter
Robert Ziegler, conductor
Lyndhurst Orchestra
Max Richter, electronics
DG 4837518

Symphony No. 2 “Ad Astra”: Voyager
Jimmy Lopez
Andres Orozco-Estrada, conductor
Houston Symphony Orchestra
Pentatone 962

Piano Concerto No. 2 “Sky Falling”
Jacob ter Veldhuis
Thierry Fischer, conductor
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic
Ronald Brautigam, piano
Brilliant 94873

The Revolt of the Stars
Mary Kouyoumdjian
Caitlin Sullivan, cello
New Amsterdam 113

Milky Ways: At the Fountainhead of God
Outi Tarkiainen
Nicholas Collon, conductor
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Nicholas Daniel, English horn
Ondine 1432

Elegies of Thule: The Night is Darkening
Tonu Korvits
Risto Joost, conductor
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Ondine 1349

Limina Luminis
Olivia Belli
Anna Lapwood, organ
Sony 80927

Canto V: Into the heart of light
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Juha Kangas, conductor
Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra
Alba 414

Radif IV “Stars of Highest Magnitude”
Robert Morris
Galax Quartet
David Morris, crystal goblets
Music and Arts 1297

Aurora
Alva Noto/Ryuichi Sakamoto
Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto
Raster-Noton 65

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