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This playlist takes you on a journey through the night. Featuring music from the Renaissance to the Classical period, it traces the passage of time though the dark hours, and explores various aspects of night portrayed in music. It touches upon music for compline - for the ending of the day - by English Tudor composers, and visits France with music by Lully from his opera Atys, featuring a character called Sommeil, the god of sleep. Mozart's wind serenades offer music for celebrations after dark and Haydn's programmatic Symphony No.8 'Le Soir' is also included. Songs by English composers such as Purcell and Dowland are interspersed throughout.

Listen below or on our Spotify playlist - 'Journey through the Night.'

Henry Purcell: 'Evening Hymn', Z.193

The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood, Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley

Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2. Song. 'One Charming Night'

Sir Roger Norrington, Mark Padmore, London Classical Players

Joseph Haydn: Symphony No.8 in G Major 'Le Soir': II. Andante

Florilegium, Ashley Solomon

John Dowland: Second Booke of Songes, 1600: 14. 'Come ye heavy states of night'

Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley

W.A. Mozart: Serenade No.10 in Bb, K.361, 'Gran Partita': III. Adagio

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

W.A. Mozart: Serenade No.10 in Bb, K.361, 'Gran Partita': VII. Finale. Molto Allegro

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

John Dowland: 'Welcome, Black Night: Cease These False Sports'

Anthony Rooley

Thomas Tallis: 'Te lucis ante terminum'

Stile Antico

Robert White: 'Christe, qui lux et dies'

Stile Antico

John Sheppard: 'In pace in idipsum'

Stile Antico

Anthony Holbourne: 'The Night Watch'

His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts

John Dowland: 'Mister Dowland's Midnight' (orpharion)

Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley

Jean-Baptiste Lully: Atys: 'Sommeil'

Capriccio Basel Baroque Orchestra, Dominik Kiefer

John Dowland: 'Goe nightly cares, the enemy to rest'

Michael Chance, Christopher Wilson

Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 4: Song and Chorus. 'Now the Night is chased away'

Sir Roger Norrington, Catherine Pierard, Schütz Choir of London, London Classical Players