Rued Langgaard's Music of the Spheres is indeed a gorgous work; it'll be on
my show tomorrow.  Langgaard also has a piece called Glimpse of Sun in his
Symphony No.  4.

More works relating to the sun, the stars, the moon..

Lili Boullanger: Hymne au Soleil (Hymn to the Sun)
hyperion 66726

John Harle: Hymn to the Sun
argo 458 356

Philip Glass: Hymn  to the Sun
CBS 45580

R. Murray Schafer: Sun
Centredisques 6599

Johana Beyer: Music of the Spheres
cri 728

Hege Rimestad: Delivering the Light
northside 6016

Morten Lauridsen: Lament for Pasiphae (words by Robert Graves,
starts: Dying sun, shine warm a little longer!
rcm 19705

GF Handel: Eternal source of light divine
sony sk 46672

Geoffrey Bush: Fear no more the heat o' the sun
chandos 8864

Gerald Finzi: Fear no more the heat o' the sun
dg 445 946

Benjamin Britten: The sun shines down
collins 14902

Arnold Bax: Spring Fire (Daybreak & Sunrise)
chandos 8464

William Mathias: Helios, Op 76
nimbus 5343

Nielsen: Helios Overture
Philips 438 867

Gilbert and Sullivan: The sun whose rays (from the Mikado)
emi 62531

Anthony Plog: Die Sonne (The Sun, from 4 themes on Paintings of Munch)
bis 565

Zhou Long: Words of the Sun
teldec 24579

Songs by Mahler and Schubert

Brenton Broadstock: Toward the Shining Light
abc 426 807

Ives: Let there be Light
hyerion 66517

Phillip Houghton: The Mantis and the Moon
sony 62007

Jaron Lanier: The Story of Water Dancing in the Night Sky; Emerging Light
point 442-132

Michael Colgrass: Artic Dreams (Polar Night)
centaur 2288

Crumb: Music of the Starry Night
nonesuc 79149

Alnitak from I Ching (Alnitak is a star in Orion's belt)
point music 442-037

Henri Dutilleux: Timbres, Espace, Mouvement ou "La nuit etillee"
philips 438 008

Stephen Leek: ....beating off the stars
spc1002

Bernstein: Jupiter Has Seven Moons
Br 112

Hovhaness: Orbit No. 2, op. 102, no. 2
koch 7195

Hovhaness: Celestial Fantasy
delos 3157

Lou Harrison: Solstice (excertps)
argo 455 590

Olli Kortekangas: Sun and Moon from 3 fiord sketches
Revontulet: Northern Lights
Ondine 884

Jon Leifs: Nott
itm 9

Harbison: Sym. #2 (Dawn; Daylight; Dusk & Darkness)
london 443 376

Manuel Barrueco: Without Sunglasses; Northern Lights
angel 56941

Harry Partch: Castor and Pollux; Ring Around the Moon
cri 751

Virgil Thomson: The Canticle of the Sun; By Night
classical arts 250

and of course:
George Harrison (remember the Beatles?): Here Comes the Sun

Susan