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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