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Through the Night: Casals Quartet

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10/01/2015

Casals Quartet

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With Jonathan Swain. Includes the Casals Quartet performing Mozart, Ligeti and Brahms.

Jonathan Swain's selection includes the Casals Quartet performing music by Mozart, Ligeti and Brahms.

The Casals Quartet play Mozart, Ligeti and Brahms. Presented by Jonathan Swain.

1:01 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) 
String Quartet in C major (K.465) "Dissonance" 
Casals Quartet: Vera Martínez-Mehner and Abel Tomàs (violins), Jonathan Brown (viola), Arnau Tomàs (cello) 


1:29 AM
Ligeti, Gyorgy (1923-2009)
Quartet no. 1 (Metamorphoses nocturnes) for strings 
Casals Quartet


1:52 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Quartet for strings no.1 (Op.51 No.1) in C minor 
Casals Quartet


2:25 AM
Falla, Manuel de (1876-1946)
El Sombrero de tres picos - suite no. 2: Dance of the miller (Farruca) 
Casals Quartet


2:29 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Symphony no. 5 (D.485) in B flat major 
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein (conductor) 


3:01 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony No.38 (K.504) in D major 'Prague' 
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor) 


3:31 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Klid for cello and orchestra (B.182) arr. from no.5 of 'From the Bohemian forest' 
Shauna Rolston (cello), Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)


3:37 AM
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)
Serenade for String Orchestra in E flat (Op.6) 
Virtuosi di Kuhmo, Peter Csaba (conductor) 


4:04 AM
Walpurgis, Maria Antonia (1724-1780)
Sinfonia from 'Talestri, Regina delle Amazzoni' - Dramma per musica
Batzdorfer Hofkapelle, Tobias Schade (harpsichord/director) 


4:11 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Mazurka No. 32 in C sharp minor, Op.50 No.3
Tobias Koch (piano) 


4:16 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Mazurka op. 24 no.2 in C major for piano 
Janusz Olejniczak (piano) 


4:20 AM
Blow, John (1649-1708)
The Graces' Dance; Gavott; Sarabande for the Graces - from Venus and Adonis
The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director)


4:27 AM
Schulz-Evler, Adolf (1852-1905)
Concert arabesque on themes by Johann Strauss for piano transcribed from "An der schonen, blauen Donau" (Beautiful Blue Danube) 
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) 


4:37 AM
Leclair, Jean-Marie (1697-1764)
Forlane from Deuxième Récréation de musique d'une exécution facile in G minor (for 2 flutes/violins and continuo, Op.8) 
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director) 


4:42 AM
Grossman, Ludwik (1835-1915)
Csárdás from the comic opera Duch wójewody (The Ghost of Voyvode) (1875)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice, Miroslaw Blaszczyk (conductor) 


4:52 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe [1683-1764]
Gavotte in A minor 
Alexander Romanovsky (piano) 


5:01 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Academic Festival Overture, Op.80 
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (Conductor) 


5:12 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto in D minor for strings and basso continuo (RV.128) 
Arte dei Suonatori, Eduardo Lopez (conductor) 


5:18 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Der Abend (Op.34 No.1) for 16 part choir 
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)


5:27 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Krakowiak - rondo for piano and orchestra (Op.14) in F major 
Nelson Goerner (Erard piano of 1849), Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brüggen (conductor) 


5:43 AM
Kodály, Zoltán (1882-1967)
A song about King Stephen
Hungarian Radio Chorus, Peter Erdei (conductor)


5:48 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
Song without Words (Op. 109)
Miklós Perényi (cello), Zoltán Kocsis (piano)


5:53 AM
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph [1732-1809]
Trio Sonata in E flat major (H.XV.29) 
Kungsbacka Trio 


6:10 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Kinderszenen for piano (Op.15) 
Havard Gimse (piano) 


6:30 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), completed by Zóltan Kocsis
Rondo (Concert rondo) for horn and orchestra in E flat major (K.371) 
László Gál (horn), Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltán Kocsis (conductor) 


6:37 AM
Andriessen, Hendrik (1892-1981)
Qui habitat
Netherlands Chamber Choir; Uwe Gronostay (director)


6:45 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
Capriccio (Op.81'3) in E minor 
Brussels Chamber Orchestra 


6:53 AM
Boulogne, Joseph - Chevalier de Saint-Georges (c.1748-1799)
Ballet music from the opera 'L'amant anonyme' (1780) 
Tafelmusik Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor).

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