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In space, no one can hear you — sing?

Editor’s note: Audio for this program is no longer available due to rights restrictions.

Thursday night was the the super blue moon, and Extra Eclectic host Steve Seel continued his visits to the 2023 BBC Proms festival. Featured on this episode is Samy Moussa's Symphony No. 2 (a BBC co-commission) and a special treat, Gyorgi Ligeti's mesmerizing, revolutionary choral work Lux Aeterna, a haunting piece used by Stanley Kubrick in 2001: A Space Odyssey to depict astronaut Dave Bowman's terrifying encounter with alien intelligence. He also featured these recordings:

The Snow
Redi Hasa
The Stolen Cello
Redi Hasa, cello
4:32

Favourite Things (More Light)
Errollyn Wallen
Errollyn
Errollyn Wallen, piano
6:10

Forty Finger Machine
Hassan Estakhrian
Breathing, Remembering, Dissolving
Kukuruz Quartet
6:49

ko?u inoa
Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti
to you through
India Gailey, cello
6:09

Symphony No. 7: Glass of Time
Gloria Coates
COATES, G.: Symphonies Nos. 1, 7 and 14
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Olaf Henzold, conductor
6:34

Olmsted: World's End
Robert Honstein
Unraveling Beethoven
Nicholas DiEugenio, violin
4:36

Dawn (Chacony for Orchestra)
Thomas Ades
Adès: Märchentänze
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Nicholas Collon, conductor
6:22

Piano Concerto No. 3
Philip Glass
Circles: Piano Concertos by Bach and Glass
A Far Cry Orchestra
Simone Dinnerstein, piano
33:20

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