BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Through the Night

Music: Classical

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

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The Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra in concert playing Bruckner and Schubert.

Catriona Young presents a concert given by the Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra of Schubert's Symphony No 3 in D and Bruckner's Symphony No 2 in C minor.

Catriona Young presents performances of Schubert's third and Bruckner's second symphonies from the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra. 

12:31 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Symphony No.3 in D major (D.200)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Marcello Viotti (Conductor)

12:56 AM
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No 2 in C minor
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Hiroshi Wakasugi (Conductor)

01:57 AM
Bernat Vivancos (b.1973)
Salve d'ecos
Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Kļava (Conductor)

02:07 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Gaspard de la nuit for piano
Anna Vinnitskaya (Piano)

02:31 AM
Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 63
Tomaž Lorenz (Violin), Simfoniki RTV Slovenija [Slovenian RTV Symphony Orchestra], Samo Hubad (Conductor)

02:58 AM
Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942)
Trio for clarinet, cello and piano Op 3
Trio Luwigana

03:24 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Lyricist)
Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibit (D.478) from Three Songs of the Harpist Op 12
Christoph Prégardien (Tenor), Andreas Staier (Pianoforte)

03:28 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Friedrich Schiller (Author)
Die Gotter Griechenlands D.677b
Christoph Prégardien (Tenor), Andreas Staier (Pianoforte)

03:33 AM
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Sonata da Chiesa Op 1 No 9 in G major
London Baroque

03:39 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Horn Concerto No 2 in E flat major K.417
James Sommerville (Horn), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (Conductor)

03:54 AM
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
4 Folk Songs
Camerata Chamber Choir, Michael Bojesen (Conductor)

04:05 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Andante and variations in B flat major Op 46, arr. for 2 pianos
Andreas Staier (Piano), Tobias Koch (Piano)

04:20 AM
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941), Jerzy Maksymiuk (Arranger)
Nocturne Op 16 No 4 
Polish Radio Orchestra of Warsaw, Jerzy Maksymiuk (Conductor)

04:25 AM
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
The Blue Bird, from 8 Partsongs Op 119 No 3
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (Conductor)

04:31 AM
Domenico da Piacenza (c.1400-c.1476)
Pizochara - for treble viol, small lute and tambourine
Ensemble Claude Gervais

04:35 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Regina coeli for soloists SATB, chorus, orchestra & organ (K.276) in C major
Olivia Robinson (Soprano), Sian Menna (Mezzo Soprano), Christopher Bowen (Tenor), Stuart MacIntyre (Baritone), BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, Stephen Cleobury (Conductor)

04:42 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Johannes Brahms (Arranger)
Chaconne in D minor, from 'Partita No. 2, BWV 1004' arr. Brahms
Linda Nicholson (Fortepiano)

04:56 AM
Rosario Bourdon (1885-1961)
Elegiac poem for cello and orchestra
Alain Aubut (Cello), Orchestre Métropolitain, Gilles Auger (Conductor)

05:02 AM
Alexis Contant (1858-1918)
Trio No.1 for violin, cello and piano
Hertz Trio

05:21 AM
Claude Debussy
Trois Nocturnes
NRCU National Chorus, Lesya Shavlovska (Director), NRCU Symphony Orchestra, Vyacheslav Blinov (Conductor)

05:43 AM
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
2 Nocturnes for piano Op.62
Yulianna Avdeeva (Piano)

05:56 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Trio No 2 from Essercizii Musici, for Viola da gamba, Harpsichord obligato & bc
Camerata Köln, Rainer Zipperling (Viola Da Gamba), Ghislaine Wauters (Viola Da Gamba), Harald Hoeren (Harpsichord)

06:07 AM
Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904)
The Golden spinning-wheel (Zlaty kolovrat)  - symphonic poem Op.109
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (Conductor)


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