Vespertine with Ellen Cranitch Saturday 4 October 2025

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Vespertine with Ellen Cranitch Saturday 4 October 2025

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Let Ellen Cranitch be your guide on a night-time voyage, crossing time and space to share a selection of classical, jazz, roots and contemporary music.

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Let Ellen Cranitch be your guide on a night-time voyage, crossing time and space to share a selection of classical, jazz, roots and contemporary music.

Episode Playlist

22:00

Title: Stairway To The Stars

Composer: Malneck / Signorelli / Parish

Performer(s): Sarah Vaughan (vocals)

Album: Sarah Vaughan At Mister Kelly's

Duration: 5:05

22:06

Title: Imperial March

Composer: Williams

Performer(s): Trotter Trio

Album: Sketches On Star Wars

Duration: 5:07

22:11

Title: Space Odyssey

Composer: Belgrave, Marcus

Performer(s): Geri Allen (piano)

Album: GRand River Crossings - Motown & Motor City Inspirations

Duration: 5:37

22:16

Title: Outer Spaceways Incorporated

Composer: Sun Ra

Performer(s): Kronos Quartet & Friends

Album: Outer Spaceways Incorporated : Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra

Duration: 2:55

22:20

Title: Door Of The Cosmos

Composer:

Performer(s): Sun Ra And His Arkestra

Album: Sleeping Beauty (Expanded Edition)

Duration: 9:00

22:29

Title: Space

Composer: Pinera, Diego

Performer(s): Diego Pinera

Album: Odd Wisdom

Duration: 7:18

22:36

Title: Planet Earth

Composer: gurtu, Trilok

Performer(s): Trilok Gurtu

Album: Rememberance

Duration: 6:21

22:43

Title: Galaxy Song

Composer: Idle / Du Prez

Performer(s): Monthy Python And Stephen Hawking

Album: Stephen Hawking Sings Monty Python…Galaxy Song - Single

Duration: 2:36

22:46

Title: Written In The Stars

Composer:

Performer(s): Alexis Ffrench

Album: Dreamland

Duration: 3:27

22:50

Title: Pretty Stars

Composer: Bill Frisell

Performer(s): Bill Frisell

Album: Bill Frisell – Music Is

Duration: 3:57

22:53

Title: Oren

Composer: Rubalcaba, Gonzalo

Performer(s): Gonzalo Rubalcaba (piano)

Album: Supernova

Duration: 4:44

22:58

Title: Supernova

Composer: Lenczowski, Krzysztof

Performer(s): Atom String Quartet

Album: Supernova

Duration: 7:41

23:06

Title: Blackstar

Composer: Bowie, David

Performer(s): Anna Phoebe (acoustic violin, viola, electric violin with effects pedals)

Album: Promo copy

Duration: 3:14

23:10

Title: Galaxies (Between Worlds)

Composer: Phoebe, Anna

Performer(s): Anna Phoebe

Album: Galaxies (Between Worlds) - single

Duration: 3:00

23:12

Title: Talk To The Stars

Composer: Geir Jenssen, Pete Namlook

Performer(s): Geir Jenssen, Pete Namlook

Album: The Fires Of Ork ‎– The Fires Of Ork

Duration: 11:46

23:24

Title: Rocket Man

Composer: Elton John/bernie Taupin

Performer(s): Kate Bush

Album: Two Rooms (recordno: Not Available)

Duration: 4:53

23:29

Title: How To Go Off (Like A Rocket)

Composer:

Performer(s): Michael Gallen

Album: Difference In Clouds - Single

Duration: 4:51

23:34

Title: Walking In Space

Composer: Galt Mac Dermot, Gerome Ragni, James Rado

Performer(s): Quincy Jones

Album: Walking In Space

Duration: 12:06

23:48

Title: Princess Leia's Theme

Composer: Williams, John

Performer(s): The Trotter Trio

Album: Sketches on Star Wars

Duration: 4:58

23:52

Title: Six Inches East of the Moon & The Astronaut's Dilemma by O'Farrell

Composer: O'Farrell, Anne-Marie

Performer(s): Anne-Marie O'Farrell (harp, vocals), Cormac de Barra (harp, vocals) Fionan de Barra (guitar)

Album: Duoploy

Duration: 3:51

23:57

Title: Gealach agus Grian (Sun and Moon)

Composer: Buckley, Linda

Performer(s): Linda Buckley (electronics)

Album: Linda Buckley: From Ocean's Floor

Duration: 6:11

00:03

Title: Realta

Composer: Munnelly, David

Performer(s): David Munnelly Trio

Album: 3' Oh

Duration: 4:10

00:07

Title: Asleep In A Cradle Of Stars

Composer:

Performer(s): Seamie O'Dowd

Album: Wood & Iron

Duration: 5:41

00:13

Title: Stars

Composer: Yangchen, Soname

Performer(s): Soname Yangchen (vocals)

Album: Natural Mind - Soname

Duration: 4:04

00:17

Title: It's Strange About Stars

Composer: Doherty, Sean

Performer(s): Laetare Vocal Ensemble

Album: Ghost Songs

Duration: 4:30

00:22

Title: As The Planets and The Stars Collapse

Composer: Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Shabaka Hutchings

Performer(s): Shabaka

Album: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace

Duration: 4:40

00:24

Title: Turn Out The Stars

Composer: Evans, Bill

Performer(s): Bill Evans (piano)

Album: Bill Evans Some Other Time: The Lost Session from the Black Forest

Duration: 4:58

00:30

Title: Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)

Composer: Lees, Gene

Performer(s): Stan Getz (Saxophone)

Album: Getz/Gilberto

Duration: 2:20

00:32

Title: If The Stars Were Mine

Composer: Gardot

Performer(s): Melody Gardot

Album: My One and Only Thrill - Melody Gardot

Duration: 2:45

00:35

Title: The Universe Within You

Composer:

Performer(s): Voces8

Album: Infinity

Duration: 4:01

00:39

Title: The Universe Before Matter

Composer:

Performer(s): Hannah Peel

Album: The Unfolding

Duration: 10:58

00:50

Title: The Planets (2nd movement) Venus, the Bringer of Peace

Composer: Holst, Gustav

Performer(s): Philharmonia Orchestra

Album: Holst - The Planets (Recordno: HMV5721392)

Duration: 8:58