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Through the Night: Mozart's Requiem from Moscow

Helmuth Rilling conducts Bach cantatas

01/07/2018

Mozart's Requiem from Moscow

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Mozart's Requiem from Moscow

Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Mozart's Requiem recorded in Moscow.

Through the Night begins with a performance of Mozart's Requiem recorded in Moscow. Other music in the programme includes works by Albeniz and Sibelius. Jonathan Swain presents.

Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Mozart's Requiem, recorded in Moscow.

1:01 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Requiem in D minor K.626, compl. Sussmayr 
Svetlana Polyanskaya (soprano), Eugenia Segenyuk (mezzo-soprano), Yuri Postotsky (tenor), Dmitri Skorikov (bass), Yurlov Russian State Academic Chorus, Novaya Russia State Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Dmitryak (conductor) 

1:54 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Eight Piano Pieces Op 76
Robert Silverman (piano)

2:23 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Symphony No 2 in C major Op 61
Orchestre Nationale de France, Heinz Wallberg (conductor) 

3:01 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 -1827)
Triple Concerto for violin, piano and orchestra in C major Op 56 
Arve Tellefsen (violin), Truls Mork (cello), Havard Gimse (piano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Rolf Gupta (conductor)

3:36 AM
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Pictures from an Exhibition for piano 
Steven Osborne (piano) 

4:12 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Secondo Trietto 
La Coloquinte 

4:20 AM
Dmitry Bortnyansky (1751-1825)
Choral Concerto No 28 "Blessed is the Man"
Tasia Buchna (soprano), Valentina Slezniova (contralto), Vasyl Kovalenko (tenor), Fedir Brauner (tenor), Evgen Zubko (bass), Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Viktor Skoromny (conductor) 

4:28 AM
Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)
Sevilla (Sevillanas) and Cataluna (Corranda) 
Sean Shibe (guitar) 

4:36 AM
Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Spirit Music (Nos 1 to 4) - from Alcina
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Monica Huggett (guest conductor) 

4:43 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
3 Lieder, arr. for cello and piano 
Sol Gabetta (cello), Bertrand Chamayou (piano) 

4:51 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Finlandia Op 26 for orchestra 
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) 

5:01 AM
Giovanni Battista Fontana (c.1592-1631)
Sonata undecima for cornett, violin and continuo 
Le Concert Brisé - William Dongois (cornett/director), Christine Moran (violin), Carsten Lohff (harpsichord), Anne-Catherine Bucher (organ/harpsichord), Benjamin Perrot (theorbo) 

5:09 AM
Gertrude van den Bergh (1793-1840)
Rondeau Op 3
Frans van Ruth (piano)

5:17 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata BWV.118 "O Jesu Christ, mein's Lebens Licht"' 
Concerto Vocale Ghent (orchestra and choir), Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) 

5:26 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata for Mandolin in D minor, K.90 
Avi Avital (mandolin) , Shalev Ad-El (harpsichord) 

5:35 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
2 Elegiac melodies for string orchestra Op 34 (arrangement of Songs Op 33 Nos 2 and 3: No 1 - Den Saerde (The wounded heart) ; No 2 - Varen (Spring) )
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)

5:44 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
16 German Dances D.783
Ralf Gothoni (piano)

5:55 AM
George Enescu (1881-1955)
Romanian Rhapsody No 1 in A major, Op 11
Romanian Youth Orchestra, Cristian Mandeal (conductor)

6:09 AM
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B flat J.182 Op 34 
Lena Jonhäll (clarinet), Zetterqvist String Quartet

6:33 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Concerto for piano and orchestra No 23 K.488 in A major 
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Terje Tønnesen (conductor).

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