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Feel lighter with luminous sounds ft Laura Misch

Let Erland Cooper whisk you away on a musical journey into lightness and warmth. Also, the saxophonist and singer Laura Misch shares her musical safe haven.

Scottish composer Erland Cooper invites you to bask in the glow of luminous music, filled with a sense of lightness and warmth, selected to bring a sense of brightness and calm. There’ll be radiant songs from Mika Akim, Nora Brown and Kiri Ra! to leave you feeling lighter.

Also, we visit the musical safe haven of saxophonist and songwriter Laura Misch. Laura shares a piece of music that to her, brings with it a tapestry of memories, which she comes back to in moments where she needs to be grounded.

Produced by Cat Gough
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 3 Unwind

28 days left to listen

1 hour

Music Played

  • Erland Cooper

    Luminosa

    • Adoro Te Devote.
    • Mercury Classics.
  • Meitei

    ashita no koto

    • The Deepest Space In Us (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Universal.
  • Hanan Townshend

    Sanctus (The Resurrection)

    • The Vessel (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Hanan Townshend.
  • Joel Andrews

    Seraphic Borealis

    • I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America, 1950-1990.
    • Light In The Attic.
  • Ólafur Arnalds

    I Could Have Stopped It

    • Mercury Classics.
  • Mika Akim & Mika Persdotter Svensson

    Llaima

    • Llaima.
  • Resavoir

    Tea (feat. William Corduroy)

    • Themes for Dreams.
    • L'UNIVERS.
  • Harry Escott

    End Credits

    • Masterworks.
  • The White Mages & Peter Broderick

    The Prelude

    • The Prelude (Final Fantasy).
    • Erased Tapes Records.
  • John Carroll Kirby

    Suntory

    • Suntory.
    • Stones Throw Records.
  • Gregory Uhlmann

    Lucia (feat. Alabaster dePlume)

    • Extra Stars.
    • International Anthem.
  • Olovson

    Pause for Sound Healing (432hz)

    • Untangle.
  • M. Sage

    Telegraph Weed Waltz

    • Tender / Wading.
    • Rvng Intl..
  • Louise Spencer

    Porth Island

    • Piano Day: Places.
    • LEITER.
  • Laura Misch

    Shell

    • Lithic.
    • One Little Independent Records.
  • Laura Misch

    Daylight

    • Shaped by Who We Knew.
  • Laura Misch

    Moment of Calm

    • Shaped by Who We Knew.
  • Kara‐Lis Coverdale

    Moments in Love

    • Grafts.
    • Boomkat Editions.
  • Viktor Orri Árnason & Robot Koch

    Stars As Eyes (Foam and Sand Rework)

    • The Next Billion Years.
    • Modern Recordings.
  • Benge

    1975 Moog Polymoog 8

    • Twenty Systems.
    • Expanding Records.
  • Nora Brown

    Wade's Tune

    • Long Time To Be Gone.
    • Jalopy Records.
  • Danny Scott Lane

    Seven

    • How To Empty A Cup.
    • Shimmering Moods Records.
  • Dream House Quartet, Bryce Dessner, David Chalmin & Katia & Marielle Labèque

    Reflexion

    • Sonic Wires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Kiri Ra!

    ahiahi

    • Kiri Ra!.
    • Oona Recordings.

Broadcast

  • Monday21:00