{"id":46883,"date":"2024-08-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54174f32-34c8-474f-8fa0-b5b4d0a4a82b"},"modified":"2024-08-24T12:07:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T10:07:22","slug":"classical-music-inspired-by-night-from-peaceful-moonlit-evenings-to-witching-hour-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/classical-music-inspired-by-night-from-peaceful-moonlit-evenings-to-witching-hour-nightmares\/","title":{"rendered":"Classical music inspired by night &#8211; from peaceful moonlit evenings to witching hour nightmares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By <\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Saturday, 24 August 2024 at 09:00 AM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><strong>Read on to discover the best classical music inspired by night&#8230;<\/strong><\/p><p>The day is done, the sun has set. Imagine it sinking majestically in the sky, as depicted by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/richard-strauss\">Richard Strauss<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0at the end of his vivid\u00a0<em>Alpine Symphony<\/em>. Perhaps the end of daylight gives rise to a languid mood, evoked in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/frederick-delius\">Delius<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s <em>Songs of Sunset<\/em>. Or maybe it is a time of revelry, talk and merry-making&#8230; Of dancing and drinking, as in Johann\u00a0Strauss II\u2019s fizzing\u00a0<em>Die Fledermaus<\/em>. <\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Delius - Songs of Sunset - Pale Amber Sunlight Falls...\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z-FECMc-bQc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/><\/div><\/figure><p>Let\u2019s move quickly through the wakefulness of evening and head to later on, when daytime is a distant memory. Now, the moon and the stars are out; the owls and the bats have woken up. Darkness has settled in. The night has arrived. And with it, a wealth of nocturnal music, written by composers throughout the centuries and across countries. <\/p><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/works\/best-classical-music-night\">6 classical works for the night<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><p>It\u2019s a time when not only the world looks different, a moonlit place of shadows. But somehow, we ourselves are also different, untethered from the safety of daylight. We enter altered states of consciousness, slipping into sleep and entering parallel universes in our dreams and nightmares. Rational thought is replaced by the surreal logic of the unconscious mind. <\/p><p>Asleep, we are suspended in time. Vulnerable. No wonder that the hours after dusk have long been a source of metaphor and imagery. When we talk about the night, about sleep, about darkness, we are talking about so much more&#8230; Fear, terror, love, lust, peace, calm, intimacy, the unknown, the unknowable. Even the biggest themes of all: life and death.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-classical-music-inspired-by-night-music-to-be-played-at-night\">Classical music inspired by night&#8230; music to be played at night<\/h2><p>Our tour begins with music written specifically to be played at night, around 11pm, when in the 18th century the evening was considered over. The German term \u2018Nachtmusik\u2019 was used for pieces, often serenades, written to be played at this time. <\/p><p>Take, for example,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/mozart\">Mozart<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s two Wind Serenades, which the composer described as \u2018Nachtmusik\u2019 and \u2018nacht musique\u2019 in letters to his father. Or his ubiquitous <em>Eine kleine Nachtmusik<\/em>, a genial serenade in G major for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/instruments\/string-instruments\">strings<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/10-mozart-myths\">Mozart myths debunked: from being buried in a pauper&#8217;s grave to a penchant for brightly-coloured wigs<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><p>Mozart often used the word for pieces with simple scoring; for more complex works, he favoured the Italian \u2018notturno\u2019. Both terms have had a long afterlife. Think of the beautiful melody that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/alexander-borodin\">Borodin<\/a><\/strong> spins in the third movement \u2018Notturno\u2019 of his String Quartet No. 2. Or <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/fanny-mendelssohn\">Fanny Mendelssohn<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s turbulent Notturno in G minor for solo piano. <\/p><p>In 1905, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/gustav-mahler\">Mahler<\/a><\/strong> completed his Symphony No. 7 with two \u2018Nachtmusik\u2019 movements, including the sounds of nature at night (cowbells and chattering birds). For <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/leonard-bernstein\">Bernstein<\/a><\/strong>, Mahler\u2019s \u2018Nachtmusik\u2019 wasn\u2019t a nocturne in the \u2018usual lyrical sense\u2019. Instead, it was \u2018nightmare \u2013\u00a0that is, night music of emotion recollected in anxiety instead of tranquillity\u2019.<\/p><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/works\/which-is-the-best-mahler-symphony\">Which is the best Mahler symphony?<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-classical-music-inspired-by-night-the-romantic-era\">Classical music inspired by night&#8230; the Romantic era<\/h2><p>As Bernstein alludes, pragmatic descriptions gave way to a poetic idea of night during the Romantic era. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/ludwig-van-beethoven\">Beethoven<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s <em>Sonata quasi una fantasia<\/em> was dubbed the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/recordings\/best-recordings-beethovens-moonlight-sonata\">\u2018Moonlight\u2019 Sonata<\/a><\/strong>. Its rippling broken chords are said to evoke lapping waves on a moonlit lake. And an entire genre came into being when Irish composer\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/john-field\">John Field<\/a><\/strong> published his 12 Nocturnes in 1812.\u00a0<\/p><p>Soon the arpeggiated left-hand and bel canto right-hand became hallmarks of the solo piano <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/musical-terms\/nocturne-definition\">nocturne<\/a><\/strong>. In Poland,\u00a0Maria Szymanowska\u2019s two Nocturnes possibly inspired or at least predate <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/frederic-chopin\">Chopin<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s&#8230; His 21 Nocturnes contain some of his most lyrical, profound music. Here, the night was a place of reverie and contemplation through endless melodies. <\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bruce Liu \u2013 Chopin: Nocturne in C Sharp Minor, KK IVa\/16 (WPD performance)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s_ST3hzMsVE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bruce Liu performs Chopin&#8217;s Nocturne in C sharp minor<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>The artist Whistler loved Chopin\u2019s evocative yet abstract title nocturne, giving it to his many \u2018moonlight\u2019 canvases. In turn these paintings inspired\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/claude-debussy\">Debussy<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s Nocturnes, three impressionistic orchestral pieces that end with \u2018Sir\u00e8nes\u2019 and the moonlight playing on the sea.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-bartok-and-creatures-of-the-night\">Bart\u00f3k and creatures of the night<\/h2><p>As nocturnal creatures wake up, the sound world changes. No composer has more atmospherically and onomatopoeically conveyed this shift than\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/bela-bartok\">Bart\u00f3k<\/a><\/strong>, who developed a signature \u2018night music\u2019 style. From\u00a0<em>The Miraculous Mandarin<\/em>\u00a0ballet to several of the string quartets, many of his pieces evoke nocturnal worlds. These often include imitations of insects and birds, as well as a sense of spaciousness. <\/p><p>One of the most moving examples is found in the\u00a0<em>Adagio religioso<\/em>\u00a0of the Piano Concerto No. 3, full of woodwind birdsong, rustling strings and chirruping piano. But our ears are also tightly attuned to the night in the timpani glissandos in\u00a0<em>Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta<\/em>, and the cluster chords of \u2018The Night\u2019s Music\u2019 in\u00a0<em>Out of Doors<\/em>\u00a0for solo piano.\u00a0.\u00a0<\/p><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/articles\/five-essential-works-bartok\">Five essential works by Bart\u00f3k<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-classical-music-inspired-by-night-the-bells-chime-midnight\">Classical music inspired by night&#8230; the bells chime midnight<\/h2><p>Midnight draws near. The significance of the clock chiming 12 is deeply woven into our collective subconscious: one day ends, another begins. Only the night owls and insomniacs are awake. \u2018The solitary, sometimes melancholy hours as one day moves into the next can be a time of reflection and unrest,\u2019 notes\u00a0Helen Grime. Her orchestral tone poem\u00a0<em>Near Midnight<\/em>\u00a0explores this pivotal time of night. Brass fanfares toll like bells, leading us inexorably to the middle of the night itself. <\/p><p>In\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/sergey-prokofiev\">Prokofiev<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s ballet\u00a0<em>Cinderella<\/em>, the frankly terrifying tick-tock of woodblocks over sustained <em>fortissimo<\/em> tremolo strings ratchet up the tension, as the deadline of midnight draws near. We are into the witching hour, when the rules of daytime no longer apply. Perhaps even the laws of the universe are stretched.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/thomas-ades\">Thomas Ad\u00e8s<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0takes us out of time in his\u00a0<em>The Four Quarters<\/em>\u00a0for string quartet. A turn around the 24-hour clock ends with \u2018The Twenty-Fifth Hour\u2019, written in the unusual, unstable time signature of 25\/16.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-blissful-life-and-the-cold-hand-of-death\">Blissful life&#8230; and the cold hand of death<\/h2><p>The bells toll, too, in\u00a0Mahler\u2019s\u00a0\u2018Um Mitternacht\u2019, one of his <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/recordings\/the-best-recordings-of-mahlers-ruckert-lieder\">R\u00fcckert-Lieder<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, a song which seems to hang in existential limbo as its narrator faces his death. Mahler was far from the first composer to use the night as a profound metaphor (although he returned to it more often than most). \u2018Come, heavy Sleep, the image of true Death,\u2019 begins the resigned narrator of\u00a0Dowland\u2019s eponymous song, written in 1597, and conveying a message of peaceful acceptance. <\/p><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/works\/most-famous-requiems\">Most famous requiems: how composers have portrayed death and the afterlife in music<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/works\/songs-about-death\">Songs about death: 10 of the most powerful melodies on mortality<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><p>The poetic power of night reaches its height in\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/richard-wagner\">Wagner<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/works\/guide-wagners-tristan-und-isolde\">Tristan und Isolde<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, in which his intoxicated lovers claim the darkness as their own. The night is where they can be together; the\u00a0long night of death will unite them forever. In Act II, the rapturous\u00a0\u2018Liebesnacht\u2019\u00a0(love-night) unfolds over a half-hour-plus, tracing, as writer Alex Ross notes, \u2018ecstatic greeting, serene bliss, sensual intimacy and a final majestic melody\u2019. Nocturnal music had never been so erotic.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-music-to-help-us-sleep\">Music to help us sleep<\/h2><p>For those, on the other hand, wishing for a restorative night\u2019s sleep, look no further than <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/johann-sebastian-bach\">JS\u00a0Bach<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/articles\/the-best-recordings-of-js-bachs-goldberg-variations\">Goldberg Variations<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, surely the world\u2019s most famous artistic cure for insomnia. Written for a sleepless Russian count, so the story goes, this solo keyboard work dazzles with its contrapuntal invention. <\/p><p>Or there\u2019s\u00a0Max\u00a0Richter\u2019s\u00a0<em>Sleep<\/em>,\u00a0written specifically with rest in mind: drawing on neuroscience, he created a 31-movement, continuous piece, for an ensemble including piano, strings, organ soprano, synthesisers and electronics, intended to work with our brain\u2019s sleep process. At eight hours,\u00a0<em>Sleep<\/em>\u00a0must surely be the world\u2019s longest lullaby \u2013 a whole topic in itself.\u00a0<\/p><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/works\/the-best-classical-music-for-sleep\">The best classical music for sleep<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><p>The <em>sommeil<\/em> or \u2018slumber scene\u2019, during which characters would drift off and find themselves in other realms and states of being, became popular in French operas of the 17th\u00a0and 18th\u00a0centuries. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/jean-baptiste-lully-composer\">Lully<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Atys<\/em> even has an allegorical character called Le Sommeil, who lulls the hero with slurred pairs of notes characteristic of the <em>sommeil<\/em>. <\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-classical-music-inspired-by-night-music-for-dreaming\">Classical music inspired by night&#8230; music for dreaming<\/h2><p>Dreams abound in classical music, whether daydreams (Debussy\u2019s\u00a0<em>R\u00eaverie<\/em>), visions (Prokofiev\u2019s <em>Visions fugitives<\/em>), dreamlike states (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/john-cage\">John Cage<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Dreams<\/em>), or desires (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/franz-liszt\">Liszt<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s <em>Liebestr\u00e4um<\/em>\u00a0No. 3). <\/p><p>Yet for a piece that captures the often absurd quality of dreams, turn to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/bohuslav-martinu\">Martin\u016f<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Julietta<\/em>\u00a0of 1938, based on a surrealist play by Georges Neveux. The Czech composer\u2019s colourful music, tinged with nostalgic accordion, underpins the quest of bookseller Michel to find the girl he once met whose voice he has been dreaming of for years. He searches for love in a place where no one has any memories, before arriving, in Act III, at the Central Bureau of Dreams, where he learns he has been in a dream-world: if he returns, he will never be able to leave.<\/p><p>What a life trapped in a dream might feel like is captured by\u00a0Delia Derbyshire.\u00a0<em>The Dreams<\/em>\u00a0is a 45-minute work created using recordings of people recounting their dreams, underpinned by Derbyshire\u2019s electronic sounds. It recreates \u2018some sensations of dreaming \u2013\u00a0running away, falling, landscape, underwater and colour,\u2019 noted the <em>Radio Times<\/em> at the premiere. It\u2019s a truly unsettling work. Tales of being chased by crocodiles and monsters, of falling, unable to speak, of walking in alien red lands, of drowning in deep sea, are related over a bed of eerie electronica.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-classical-music-inspired-by-night-from-dreams-to-nightmares\">Classical music inspired by night&#8230; from dreams to nightmares<\/h2><p>Bad dream \u2013\u00a0or nightmare?\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/harrison-birtwistle-an-introduction\">Birtwistle<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s 1968 opera\u00a0<em>Punch and Judy<\/em>\u00a0includes a scene overtly titled \u2018nightmare\u2019, in which vocal and orchestral shrieks instil anxiety in the audience, while perhaps the most famous m\u00e9lange of daydreams and diabolical nightmares is found in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/hector-berlioz\">Berlioz<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/works\/love-story-behind-berliozs-symphonie-fantastique\">Symphonie fantastique<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. <\/p><p>But for truly terrifying musical nightmares, turn to the <em>fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em> and the Austro-Germanic tradition. A decade after\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/arnold-schoenberg\">Schoenberg<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0explored the night as a place of psychological transformation in his string sextet\u00a0<em>Verkl\u00e4rte Nacht<\/em>, and two years before Sigmund Freud published his <em>Interpretation of Dreams<\/em>, the German composer wrote his one-woman monodrama\u00a0<em>Erwartung<\/em>\u00a0(1909). \u2018[It] could be interpreted as a nightmare,\u2019 said the composer, a comment surely not only on the hideous sequence of events it traces but also the music\u2019s dream-like character. <\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Schoenberg: Verkl\u00e4rte Nacht, Op. 4 - Janine Jansen - International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht HD\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L3vclwWOefM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Schoenberg&#8217;s Verkl\u00e4rte Nacht<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>That same year,\u00a0Richard Strauss\u00a0wrote his shocking opera\u00a0<em>Elektra<\/em>, a work, he said, of \u2018night and light, or black and bright\u2019, in which one unhappy character, Klyt\u00e4mnestra, is tormented by her lack of sleep. \u2018I am distraught with nights of horror,\u2019 she sings, over an orchestral score full of awful foreboding. The only cure is death.\u00a0<\/p><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/articles\/operas-monstrous-mothers\">Opera&#8217;s monstrous mothers<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-sun-rises-again\">The sun rises again!<\/h2><p>Or, for the rest of us, waking up. The glorious sunrise of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/maurice-ravel\">Ravel<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/recordings\/ravel-daphnis-et-chloe-guide-and-best-recordings\">Daphnis et Chlo\u00e9<\/a><\/strong><\/em> washes away the dramas of the night, or perhaps Strauss\u2019s <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/articles\/guide-strausss-also-sprach-zarathustra\">Also sprach Zarathustra<\/a><\/strong><\/em> stirs souls. A sigh of relief is breathed with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/edvard-grieg\">Grieg<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s \u2018Morning Mood\u2019 from <em>Peer Gynt<\/em>. The night is over, another day has begun.\u00a0<\/p><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/works\/five-essential-works-grieg\">The best works by Grieg<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Published: Saturday, 24 August 2024 at 09:00 AM Read on to discover the best classical music inspired by night&#8230; The day is done, the sun has set. Imagine it sinking majestically in the sky, as depicted by\u00a0Richard Strauss\u00a0at the end of his vivid\u00a0Alpine Symphony. 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