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Through the Night: Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride

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26/08/2015

Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride

Jonathan Swain's selection features Gluck's opera Iphigenie en Tauride performed in Poland

Jonathan Swain's selection features a performance of Gluck's opera Iphigenie en Tauride given in Poland.

A performance of Gluck's opera Iphigénie en Tauride from Poland, presented by Jonathan Swain.

12:32 AM
Gluck, Christoph Willibald [1714-1787], Guillard, Nicolas-Francois (1752-1814) librettist after Euripides (480-406 BC)
Iphigénie en Tauride (Iphigenia in Tauris), Acts 1 & 2 
Iphigénie ..... Helena Juntunen (soprano)
Oreste ..... David Pershall (baritone)
Pylade ..... Eric Barry (tenor)
Thoas ..... George Mosley (bass)
Priestess ..... Anna Destraël (soprano)
Priestess/Greek woman ..... Laura Holm (soprano)
A Scythian ..... Benoît Deney (tenor)
Minister ..... Guillaume Durand (bass)
Marek Toporowski, harpsichord
Polish Radio Chorus
Izabela Polakowska (chorus director)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)

1:30 AM
Iphigénie en Tauride (Iphigenia in Tauris), Acts 3 & 4 

2:13 AM
Gossec, François-Joseph (1734-1829)
Symphony in D major (Op.5 No.3) 'Pastorella' 
Tafelmusik Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor) 

2:31 AM
Cherubini, Luigi [1760-1842]
Requiem Mass No. 1 in C minor for chorus and orchestra (à la mémoire de Louis XVI)
Slovenian Radio & Television Chamber Choir, Slovenian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra, Pavle Dešpalj (conductor)

3:16 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
String Quartet in D major (Op.64, No.5) (Hob.III.63) "Lark" 
Danish String Quartet 

3:34 AM
Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911) 
Carnival in Paris - Overture/Episode for orchestra (Op.9) 
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)

3:47 AM
Offenbach, Jacques (1819-1880) arr. Max Woltag
Belle nuit (Barcarolle from Contes d'Hoffmann) arr. for violin, cello & piano
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano) 

3:50 AM
Bizet, Georges (1838-1875)
Au fond du temple saint (from 'The Pearl Fishers')
Mark Dubois (tenor), Mark Pedrotti (baritone), Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Raffi Armenian (conductor)

3:55 AM
Françaix, Jean (1912-1997)
Le gai Paris for wind ensemble 
The Wind Ensemble of the Hungarian Radio Orchestra

4:06 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Berceuse in D flat (Op.57)
Anastasia Vorotnaya (piano) 

4:11 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); transcribed by Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Auf dem Wasser zu singen (D.744) arr. Liszt for piano 
Anastasia Vorotnaya (piano) 

4:15 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918] orchestrated by Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
Tarantelle styrienne (Danse), orch. Ravel 
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Maksymiuk (conductor) 

4:22 AM
Gounod, Charles (1818-1893)
Overture to Mireille
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Oliver Dohnányi (conductor)

4:31 AM
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)
Dance of the Furies from 'Orfeo ed Euridice', Act 2
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)

4:35 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
10 Variations in G on the aria 'Unser dummer Pöbel meint' from the opera 'La rencontre imprévue' by Christoph Willibald Gluck (K.455)
Shai Wosner (piano)

4:49 AM
Salieri, Antonio (1750-1825)
Sinfonia in D major 'Veneziana' 
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Biondi (conductor) 

4:59 AM
Spohr, Louis (1784-1859)
Fantasie and variations on a theme of Danzi in B flat (Op.81) (vers. clarinet & string quartet)
Joze Kotar (clarinet), Slovene Philharmonic String Quartet

5:06 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
Quartet for strings (Op.77'1) in G major Hob III/81 "Lobkowitz" 
Fine Arts Quartet 

5:32 AM
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)
Ballet music: 'Dances of the Blessed Spirits' - from 'Orphée et Euridice'
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)

5:40 AM
Cherubini, Luigi (1760-1842)
Ballet music from 'Anakreon'
Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)

5:48 AM
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687)
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme - suite 
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Terje Tønnesen (conductor) 

6:07 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
"Solitudini amate" (Beloved solitude) 
Sophie Boulin (Roxana, soprano), La Petite Bande, Sigswald Kuijken (director) 

6:14 AM
Boulogne, Joseph - Chevalier de Saint-Georges (c.1748-1799)
Ouverture to the opera 'L'amant anonyme' (1780) 
Tafelmusik Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor) 

6:22 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe [1683-1764]
Gavotte in A minor 
Alexander Romanovsky (piano).

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