Got a quieter show tonight. If you fall asleep to this show, I promise I won’t mind; I’ve fallen asleep to a lot of this music myself. Migraine medicine and music for restless nights—something I’ve needed lately, and I know I’m not alone.

Intimate folk, classical piano, film scores, cool jazz, and more. Also talked a bit about getting into opera, with the help of Matthew Boyden’s Rough Guide to Opera pictured above.

Recording

Tracks played

• The Books — “The Lemon of Pink” (2003)
• Angelo Badalamenti — “Laurens Walking” (1999)
• Bill Evans — “Alice in Wonderland” (1961)
• Paul Simon — “Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War” (1983)
• David Sylvian — “The Boy with the Gun” (1987)
• Yasunori Mitsuda — “The Wind Calls to Shevat in the Blue Sky” (1998)
• Vashti Bunyan — “If I Were” (2005)
• Henry Purcell [perf. English Chamber Orchestra, Janet Baker; cond. Anthony Lewis] — “But Death, Alas! / When I Am Laid in Earth” (from Dido & Aeneas) (1689)
• Alexander Scriabin [perf. Marc-André Hamelin] — “Andante” (from Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 19 ‘Sonata-Fantasie’) (1898)
• Penguin Cafe Orchestra — “Silver Star of Bologna” (1993)
• Fripp & Eno — “Evening Star” (1975)