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Through the Night

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Through the Night: 19/02/2014

19/02/2014

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, 19/02/2014

Simon Boccanegra, with Stephen Powell in the title role of Verdi's tale of struggle.

Simon Boccanegra from Warsaw - Verdi's tale of internecine struggle in Venice stars Stephen Powell as Boccanegra and Amanda Hall is his long-lost daughter. Presented by John Shea.

Simon Boccanegra from Warsaw. Verdi's tale of internecine struggle in Venice stars Stephen Powell as Boccanegra and Amanda Hall is his long-lost daughter. Presented by John Shea.

12:32 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe [1813-1901]
Simon Boccanegra
Stephen Powell (baritone - Simon Boccanegra), Amanda Hall (soprano - Maria Boccanegra), Nikolay Didenko (bass - Jacopo Fiesco), Eric Barry (tenor - Gabriele Adorno), Andrew Craig Brown (baritone - Paolo Albani), Alexander Hahn (bass - Pietro), Warsaw Philharmonic Chorus, Henryk Wojnarowski (chorus-master), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)]

2:37 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Romeo at Juliet's tomb (from Romeo and Juliet - Suite No.2 (Op.64b)) & Death of Tybalt (Funeral cortege of Tybalt's corpse) (from Romeo and Juliet - Suite No.1 (Op.64b)
Flemish Radio Orchestra, Yoel Levi (conductor)

2:49 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Gaspard de la nuit
Cedric Tiberghien (piano)

3:16 AM
Tartini, Giuseppe (1692-1770)
Concerto for violin and strings in D minor (D.45)
Carlo Parazzoli (violin), I Cameristi Italiani

3:31 AM
Lassus, Orlando (1532-1594)
3 motets: Jubilate Deo; Io ti voria; Tristis est anima mea
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Paul van Nevel (conductor)

3:37 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
On Wings of Song (Op.34 No.2) arr. anon for clarinet & piano
Hyun-Gon Kim (clarinet), Chi-Ho Cho (piano)

3:40 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Lucio Silla ? Overture (K.135)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)

3:49 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Two Nocturnes (Op.32)
Kevin Kenner (piano)

3:59 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Sonata in F major from "Der Getreue Music-Meister"
Michael Schneider (recorder), Rainer Zipperling (cello), Harald Hoeren (positive organ)

4:06 AM
Sullivan, (Sir) Arthur (1842-1900)
In memoriam ? Overture in C major
BBC Philharmonic, Richard Hickox (conductor)

4:18 AM
Villa-Lobos, Heitor [1887-1959]
Prelude for guitar No.1 in E minor
Norbert Kraft (guitar)

4:23 AM
Bernat Vivancos (b.1973)
El cant del ocells
Ieva Ezeriete (soprano); Latvian Radio Choir; Sigvards Klava (conductor)

4:31 AM
Arcadelt, Jakob (1500-1568)
Ave Maria
Tallinn Boys Choir, Lydia Rahula (conductor)

4:34 AM
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von [1644-1704]
Sonata No.12 a 8 from Sonatae tam aris, quam aulis servientes (1676)
Collegium Aureum, Georg Ratzinger (conductor)

4:40 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Allegro appassionato in C sharp minor (Op.70)
Stefan Lindgren (piano)

4:46 AM
Enescu, George (1881-1955)
Romanian Rhapsody No.1 in A major (Op.11, No.1)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

4:59 AM
Suchon, Eugen (1908-1993)
Nocturne for Cello and Orchestra
Ján Slávik (cello), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Mário Kosík (conductor)

5:15 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Psalm Nisi Dominus (RV.608)
Matthew White (counter-tenor), Arte dei Suonatori, Eduardo Lopez (conductor)

5:35 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
25 Variations and Fugue on a theme by G F Handel for piano (Op.24)
Simon Trpceski (piano)

6:01 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
String Quartet in G major (K.387)
Quattuor Mosaïques.

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