The Music

What you are listening to

Every night has a piece of its own. All of it is freely licensed, and every one was chosen for the night it plays on.

  1. One Grieg · Morning Mood, from Peer Gynt Musopen Symphony · public domain
  2. Two Dvořák · Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”, Largo public domain
  3. Three Satie · Gymnopédie No. 1 Michael Laucke · public domain
  4. Four Ravel · Pavane pour une infante défunte Thérèse Dussaut · CC BY-SA 2.0
  5. Five Chopin · Nocturne in E-flat, Op. 9 No. 2 Frank Lévy · public domain
  6. Six Paganini · Caprice No. 24 Steinaco · public domain
  7. Seven Holst · Venus, the Bringer of Peace public domain
  8. Eight Liszt · Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 Philadelphia Orchestra, Stokowski · public domain
  9. Ten Bach · Air on the G String Air Force Strings, United States Air Force Band · public domain
  10. Eleven Schumann · Träumerei, from Kinderszenen public domain
  11. Twelve Gardel · A Media Luz public domain
  12. Thirteen Debussy · Première Arabesque Patrizia Prati · CC BY-SA 4.0
  13. Fourteen Vivaldi · Summer, III. Presto The Modena Chamber Orchestra · public domain
  14. Fifteen Bach · Cello Suite No. 1, Prélude public domain
  15. Sixteen Beethoven · Sonata No. 8 “Pathétique”, Adagio cantabile CC0
  16. Seventeen Saint-Saëns · Aquarium, from The Carnival of the Animals CC BY-SA 2.0
  17. Eighteen Elgar · Nimrod, from the Enigma Variations Hallé Orchestra, John Barbirolli · public domain
  18. Nineteen Bizet · Habanera, from Carmen public domain
  19. Twenty Massenet · Méditation, from Thaïs David Hernando Vitores · CC BY-SA 4.0
  20. Twenty-one Beethoven · Moonlight Sonata public domain
  21. Twenty-two Grieg · In the Hall of the Mountain King public domain
  22. Twenty-four Pachelbel · Canon in D Kevin MacLeod · CC BY 3.0
  23. Twenty-five Debussy · Clair de Lune public domain

Nights nine and twenty-three have no music on purpose. Your voice is on those.

The quieter pieces underneath everything else were written for you and exist nowhere else.

The cry of the owl on night four is a real American barn owl, recorded by Alexandra Liberato · xeno-canto XC611957 · CC BY-SA 4.0.

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