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Through the Night: Shakespeare in Sound

Through the Night: Shakespeare in Sound: Episode 1

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Episode 1

Shakespeare in Sound

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Shakespeare in Sound, Episode 1

Jonathan Swain presents music inspired by Shakespeare performed in Barcelona.

Jonathan Swain presents music inspired by Shakespeare performed in Barcelona by the Palau de la Musica Chamber Chorus.

Shakespeare from Barcelona. With Jonathan Swain.

1:01 AM
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
3 Shakespeare Songs); "Over Hill, over Dale" (from A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Pere Arquillué (narrator), Toni Gubau (countertenor), Xavier Coll (Archlute), Palau de la Música Chamber Chorus, Josep Vila i Casañas (dir.)

1:14 AM
Shakespeare, William; Pagès, Xavier (b.1971)
Sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my absence been
Pere Arquillué (narrator), Palau de la Música Chamber Chorus, Josep Vila i Casañas (dir.)

1:19 AM
Shakespeare, William; Josep Vila i Casañas (b.1967)
Sonnet 19: Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws
Pere Arquillué (narrator), Palau de la Música Chamber Chorus, Josep Vila i Casañas (dir.)

1:28 AM
Dowland, John (1563-1626)
Fantasy in G
Xavier Coll (archlute)

1:32 AM
Shakespeare, William; Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
Sonnet 147: My love is like a fever longing still & Come way, Death
Pere Arquillué (narrator), Palau de la Música Chamber Chorus, Josep Vila i Casañas (dir.)

1:37 AM
Shakespeare, William; Martin, Frank (1890-1974)
Songs of Ariel: Come unto These Yellow Sands; Before you can say Come and Go; You are Three Men of Sin
Pere Arquillué (narrator), Palau de la Música Chamber Chorus, Josep Vila i Casañas (dir.)

1:46 AM
Shakespeare, William; Mantyjarvi, Jaakko (b.1963)
Double, Double Toil and Trouble, Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble from Macbeth
Pere Arquillué (narrator), Palau de la Música Chamber Chorus, Josep Vila i Casañas (dir.)

1:52 AM
Shakespeare, William; Lindberg, Nils (b.1933)
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a Summer's Day?
Pere Arquillué (narrator), Palau de la Música Chamber Chorus, Josep Vila i Casañas (dir.)

1:57 AM
Murcia, Santiago de [1682-1740]
2 pieces from "Codex de Saldívar"
Xavier Diaz-Latorre (guitar)

2:06 AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
Roméo et Juliette Op.17
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda (cond.)

3:01 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No.17 (Op.31'2) 'Tempest'
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

3:25 AM
Morley, Thomas (c.1557-1602) & Dowland, John (1563-1626)
Fantasie (Morley); Pavan; Earl of Derby, his Galliard (Dowland)
Nigel North (lute)

3:35 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony no.36, 'Linz' K425
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra; Fabio Biondi (cond.)

4:05 AM
Galan, Cristobal (c.1625-1684)
O que mal vamos, Amor!
Olga Pitarch (Soprano), Accentus Austria, Thomas Wimmer (dir.)

4:11 AM
Grossman, Ludwik (1835-1915)
Csárdás from the opera The Ghost of Voyvode
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Miroslaw Blaszczyk (cond.)

4:21 AM
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936)
The Muse Op.59'1
Peter Mattei (baritone), Stefan Lindgren (piano)

4:24 AM
Mikuli, Karol [1819-1897]
Mazurka Op.4
Tobias Koch (piano)

4:28 AM
Bouwman, Nicolaas Arie (1854-1941)
Thalia-ouverture
Dutch National Youth Wind Orchestra, Jan Cober (cond.)

4:37 AM
Byrd, William (c.1543-1623)
O Lord, how vain
Emma Kirkby (soprano), The Rose Consort of Viols

4:44 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Flute Concerto RV.90 (Il Gardellino)
Giovanni Antonini (flute/director), Il Giardino Armonico

4:55 AM
Gounod, Charles (1818-1893)
"L'amour! L'amour...Ah! lève-toi, soleil" from "Roméo et Juliette"
Richard Margison (tenor), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (cond.)

5:01 AM
Salieri, Antonio (1750-1825)
Overture La grotta di Trofonio
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Biondi (cond.)

5:08 AM
Andriessen, Juriaan [1925-1996]
Sonnet No.43
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Uwe Gronostay (cond.)

5:15 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707)
Ciacona in E minor BuxWV160
Jacques van Oortmerssen (organ)

5:21 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich [1840-1893]
Hamlet, fantasy overture Op.67
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (cond.)

5:39 AM
Bertali, Antonio (1605-1669)
Sonata Prima à 3
Le Nouveau Concert

5:46 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
Ballet Music for 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (cond.)

6:02 AM
Flothius, Marius (1914-2001)
Sonnet Op.9 "Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye"
Jard van Nees (mezzo), Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (cond.)

6:10 AM
Dvorák, Antonín [1841-1904]
Overture 'Othello' Op.93
BBC Symphony Orchestra; Jirí Belohlávek (cond.)

6:25 AM
Svendsen, Johan [1840-1911]
Romeo and Juliet Op.18
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, John Storgårds (cond.)

6:39 AM
Thomas, Ambroise (1811-1896)
"Ô vin dissipe la tristesse" from Hamlet
Brett Polegato (baritone), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (cond.)

6:43 AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
Le Roi Lear: overture Op.4
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (cond.).

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