Sleeping with MAX RICHTER


2015-12-13: With only 12 sleeps to go until Christmas, Jarvis meets contemporary classical composer Max Richter to talk about his 'lullaby for a frenetic world', Sleep.  The eight-hour piece premiered on BBC Radio 3 live from the Wellcome Collection in London, where the slumbering audience lay in beds and the musicians played in shifts. Max discusses his interest in exploring the relationship between music and the subconscious mind. Jarvis recites a dreamy snippet of Coleridge and the listeners suggest some sedative sounds of our own.  Plus: another nod to the Paris climate change talks, and on this day the last ever moonwalk took place — just how would you get to sleep on the moon? Birthdays: Jackie Clune, Jamie Foxx, Tom Verlaine and Lester Bangs. 

The Specials - (Dawning of) A New Era
The Velvet Underground - Beginning to See the Light 
Hologram Teen - Tracksuit Minotaur 
Documenta - Love As a Ghost 
Winston Wright - Moon Invader 
Sun Ra - Space Is the Place 
New Model Soldier - Adrift [more info here

Dick Van Dyke, Julie Andrews, Karen Dotrice and Matthew Garber - Chim Chim Cheree 
R. Stevie Moore - I'm Only Sleeping 
Glenn Gould - Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria 
[Max Richter Interview] 
Max Richter - Path 17 (Before the Ending of Daylight) 
Jordi Savall - Purcell: Fantasia #7 in 4 Parts 
The Future Sound of London - Max 
Zuzana Růžičková - Couperin: Les Barricades Mystérieuses 
Max Richter - Vivaldi: Summer 1 (new arrangement) 
Max Richter - Path 3 (7676) 
The Charlatans - Keep Enough 

Ray Charles - Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying 
Television - Little Johnny Jewel 
Lester Bangs - Live 
Chain and The Gang - Chain Gang Theme (I See Progress) 
Walter Heller - Sailing By 
The Blue Nile - From a Late Night Train