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Through the Night: Mendelssohn's String Octet

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Mendelssohn's String Octet

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Mendelssohn's String Octet

The Jasper and Jupiter quartets join forces to play Mendelssohn's String Octet in E flat.

Catriona Young introduces performances by two American quartets, the Jasper and the Jupiter, who join forces to perform Mendelssohn's String Octet in E flat.

2 American Quartets, the Jasper and the Jupiter join forces in Mendelssohn's Octet. With Catriona Young.

12:31 am
Joseph Haydn 
String Quartet in F, Op.77, No 2,
Jasper Quartet

12:58 am
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) 
String Octet in E flat Op.20
Jasper Quartet, Jupiter Quartet

1:32 am
George Whitefield Chadwick 
Symphony No.2 in B flat major (Op.21) (1886)
Albany Symphony Orchestra, Julius Hegyi (Conductor)

2:09 am
Lou Harrison (1917-2003) 
Harp Suite (1952-1977)
David Tannenbaum (Guitar), William Winant (Percussion), Scott Evans (Percussion), Joel Davel (Drums) 

2:25 am
Louis Moreau Gottschalk 
Pasquinade (c.1863)
Michael Lewin (Piano)

2:31 am
Toivo Kuula 
Orjan poika Op.14 (1910)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Suomen Laula Choir, Jussi Jalas (Conductor)

2:56 am
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) 
Rakastava - suite for string orchestra (Op.14)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hannu Koivula (Conductor)

3:10 am
Ernst Mielck (1877-1899) 
Concert piece for piano and orchestra (Op.9)
Liisa Pohjola (Piano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Petri Sakari (Conductor)

3:37 am
Antonio Vivaldi 
Concerto in G minor for Strings and continuo (RV.157)
Il Giardino Armonico

3:43 am
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847) 
Allegro moderato (Song without words), Op 8, No 1 (1840)
Sylviane Deferne (Piano)

3:48 am
Jacobus Gallus Carniolus (1550-1591) 
2 Motets from Opus Musicum
Ljubljanski madrigalisti, Matjaz Scek (Director)

3:53 am
Petko Stainov (1896-1977) 
Paidoushko Horo
Bulgarian Television and Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Stefanov (Conductor)

3:56 am
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 
Keyboard Concerto No.5 in F minor (BWV.1056) (Moderato; Largo; Presto)
Angela Hewitt (Piano), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (Conductor)

4:07 am
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) 
The Three Wonders from The tale of Tsar Saltan - suite (Op.57)
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (Conductor)

4:15 am
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) 
Rondo a capriccio in G major Op.129 (Rage over a lost penny) for piano
Pavel Kolesnikov (Piano)

4:21 am
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) 
Lascia la spina, from Il Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno
Julia Lezhneva (Soprano), Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Giovanni Antonini (Conductor)

4:31 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) 
Overture (Der Schauspieldirektor, K486)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ivor Bolton (Conductor)

4:36 am
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) 
Introduction and allegro
Tinka Muradori (Flute), Josip Nochta (Clarinet), Paula Uršic (Harp), Zagreb String Quartet 

4:47 am
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) 
Intermezzo (Op.117 No.1) in E flat major "Schlummerlied"
Khatia Buniatishvili (Piano)

4:54 am
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) 
Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op.90 (Italian)
Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Giovanni Antonini (Conductor)

5:22 am
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) 
Concerto Grosso in A minor, Op 6, No 4
Sixth Floor Ensemble, Anssi Mattila (Conductor)

5:33 am
Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) 
Vlci stopa (The wolf's trail) for soprano, female choir & piano
Susse Lillesøe (Soprano), Danish National Radio Choir, Per Salo (Piano), Stefan Parkman (Conductor) 

5:41 am
Béla Bartók (1881-1945) 
For Children - Book 1 (nos.1-6)
Martá Fábián (Cimbalom), Agnes Szakaly (Cimbalom)

5:46 am
Claude Debussy 
Children's Corner
Roger Woodward (Piano)

6:04 am
Louis Spohr (1784-1859) 
String Sextet in C, Op 140
Wiener Streichsextett (Sextet)


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