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Through the Night

Music: Classical

Continuous broadcast of concert music and opera, recorded from locations throughout Europe

Through the Night: Vox Luminis

Helmuth Rilling conducts Bach cantatas

24/12/2016

Vox Luminis

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Vox Luminis

With Jonathan Swain. Vox Luminis perform music for the season.

From The Temple Church in London, Puer Natus in Bethleem with Vox Luminis. Jonathan Swain presents.

1:01 AM
Scheidt, Samuel [1587-1654], Bach, Johann Michael [1648-1694]
Puer Natus in Bethleem - Part 1 - Advent 
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier (director), Anthony Romaniuk (organ) 

1:13 AM
Schutz, Heinrich [1585-1672], Schein, Johann Hermann [1586-1630], Bach, Johann Michael [1648-1694], Praetorius, Michael [c.1571-1621]
Puer Natus in Bethleem - Part 2 - Annunciation 
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier (director), Anthony Romaniuk (organ) 

1:39 AM
Scheidt, Samuel [1587-1654], Schutz, Heinrich [1585-1672]
Puer Natus in Bethleem - Part 3 - Nativity 
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier (director), Anthony Romaniuk (organ) 

2:00 AM
Pachelbel, Johann [1653-1706], Praetorius, Michael [c.1571-1621], Praetorius, Hieronymus [1560-1629], Schein, Johann Hermann [1586-1630], Scheidt, Samuel [1587-1654]
Puer Natus in Bethleem - Part 4 - Adoration 
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier (director), Anthony Romaniuk (organ) 

2:23 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Piano Sonata in A minor (Op.42) (D.845) 
Alfred Brendel (piano) 

3:01 AM
Foulds, John [1880-1939]
Holiday Sketches (Op.16)
Cynthia Fleming (violin), Katharine Wood (cello), BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor) 

3:16 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Children's Corner 
Roger Woodward (piano)

3:34 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
L'Apothéose de la Dance - orchestral suite of dance music by Rameau compiled by Marc Minkowski 
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor) 

4:12 AM
Dupré, Marcel (1886-1971)
Variations on 'Adeste Fideles'
Tong-Soon Kwak (Rieger organ at the Torch Centre for World Missions in Seoul, Korea)

4:21 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Introduction and waltz from 'Eugene Onegin' - lyric scenes in 3 acts (Op.24) 
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor) 

4:29 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Le carnaval des animaux (for flute, clarinet, glockenspiel, xylophone, 2 pianos, string quartet & double bass)
The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound, James Campbell (director)

4:53 AM
Tormé, Mel (1925-1999) / Berlin, Irving (1888-1989) / Martin, Hugh (b.19??) arr. Cable, Howard (b.1920)
Christmas Medley - The Christmas Song (Mel Tormé & Robert Wells) / White Christmas (Irving Berlin) / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Hugh Martin & Ralph Blaine)
Louis Quilico & Gino Quilico (baritones), Toronto Children's Chorus, Judy Loman (harp), Members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Jean Ashworth Bartle (conductor) 

5:01 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Brandenburg Concerto no.2 (BWV.1047) in F major 
Alexis Kossenko (recorder), Erik Niord Larsen (oboe), Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet), Elise Båtnes (violin), Risör Festival Strings, Knut Johannessen (harpsichord) 

5:13 AM
Adam, Adolphe (1803-1856) arr. Howard Cable
Cantique de Noël
Gino Quilico (baritone), Judy Loman (harp), Toronto Children's Chorus, Members of the Toronto Symphony, Jean Ashworth Bartle (conductor)

5:17 AM
Reger, Max (1873-1916)
Maria Wiegenlied (Op.76 No.52) 
The Toronto Children's Chorus, Judy Loman (harp), Jean Ashworth Bartle (conductor)

5:19 AM
Yon, Pietro Alessandro (1886-1943)
Gesù Bambino
Louis Quilico (baritone), Toronto Children's Chorus, Judy Loman (harp), Members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Jean Ashworth Bartle (conductor) 

5:23 AM
Grieg, Edvard (Hagerup) (1843-1907)
Andante con moto for piano trio in C minor
Kungsbacka Piano Trio 

5:34 AM
Horovitz, Joseph (b.1926)
Music Hall Suite 
The Slovene Brass Quintet 

5:44 AM
Strauss (ii), Johann [1825-1899]
An der schonen, blauen Donau (The Blue Danube) - waltz Op.314 
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor) 

5:56 AM
Britten, Benjamin [1913-1976]
A Ceremony of Carols (Op.28) 
Polyphonia (soloists: Katya Dimanova, Evguenia Tasseva, Penka Kazandzhieva), Ivelina Ivancheva (piano), Ivelin Dimitrov (conductor) 

6:20 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Piano Sonata in C major (K.309)
Anna Vinnitskaya (piano)

6:37 AM
Palmgren, Selim (1878-1951)
Cinderella Suite (1902-3)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, George de Godzinsky (conductor).

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