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Through the Night: Mozart from Moscow

Helmuth Rilling conducts Bach cantatas

Mozart from Moscow

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Mozart from Moscow

Jonathan Swain with Mozart's Piano Concertos Nos 9 and 16 played by Mikhail Voskresensky. 

Jonathan Swain presents Mozart's Piano Concertos No 9 in E flat and No 16 in D played by Mikhail Voskresensky. 

Piano concertos Nos.9 and 16 performed by Mikhail Voskresensky. Presented by Jonathan Swain.

12:31 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto no.9 in E flat major, K.271
Mikhail Voskresensky (Piano), Pavel Slobodkin Centre Chamber Orchestra, Moscow, Leonid Nikolaev (Conductor)

01:03 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto no.16 in D major, K.451
Mikhail Voskresensky (Piano), Pavel Slobodkin Centre Chamber Orchestra, Moscow, Leonid Nikolaev (Conductor)

01:26 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Quartet No.10 in Eb major "Harp" (Op.74) (1809)
Florian Kellerhals (Violin), Harald Grimsrud (Violin), Elisabeth Sijpkens (Viola), Hjalmar Kvam (Cello)

01:56 AM
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Missa sancta no.1 (J.224) in E flat major 'Freischutzmesse'
Norwegian Soloist Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Grete Pedersen (Conductor)

02:31 AM
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Cello Sonata in D minor, Op 40
Narek Hakhnazaryan (Cello), Katya Apekisheva (Piano)

03:00 AM
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Six Songs from Polish Songs, Op 74
Marika Schönberg (Soprano), Roland Pontinen (Piano)

03:19 AM
Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884)
Vltava (Moldau) from 'Ma Vlast'
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Québec, Raffi Armenian (Conductor)

03:31 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
2 Marches for wind band
Bratislavská komorná harmónia, Justus Pavlík (Conductor)

03:38 AM
Carlo Gesualdo (c.1561-1613)
Merce, grido piangendo - from Madrigali a cinque
Ensemble Daedalus

03:43 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Trio No.5 from Essercizii Musici, for Recorder, Violin, and continuo
Camerata Köln

03:54 AM
Alexander Borodin
In the steppes of central Asia (V sredney Azii) - symphonic poem
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (Conductor)

04:02 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Sonatine (1903-05)
Aldo Ciccolini (Piano)

04:15 AM
Ruth Watson Henderson (1932-)
The Song my Paddle Sings for SATB with piano accompaniment
Anonymous

04:19 AM
Benjamin Britten
Courtly Dances from Gloriana, Op 53
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Łukasz Borowicz (Conductor)

04:31 AM
Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889)
Variations on "Casta diva - Ah! Bello"  from Bellini's 'Norma'
Alison Balsom (Trumpet), John Reid (Piano)

04:37 AM
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Aria Ella mi fu rapita, from Rigoletto (Act II)
Kaludi Kaludov (Tenor), Sofia Symphony Orchestra, Metodi Matakiev (Conductor)

04:43 AM
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Symphony (K.24) (Op.10 No.6) in A major
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (Conductor)

04:56 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in B minor (Kk.87)
Andreas Staier (Harpsichord)

05:02 AM
Anton Bruckner
3 Motets: Ave Maria; Christus factus est; Locus iste
Sokkelund Choir, Morten Schuldt-Jensen (Conductor)

05:16 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Serenade to music for 16 soloists (or 4 soloists & chorus) & orchestra
Bette Cosar (Soprano), Delia Wallis (Mezzo Soprano), Edd Wright (Tenor), Gary Dahl (Bass), Alexander Skwortsow (Violin), Vancouver Bach Choir, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bruce Pullan (Conductor)

05:30 AM
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Verklarte Nacht for string sextet (Op.4)
Andrés Díaz (Cello), Borromeo String Quartet, Cynthia Phelps (Viola)

05:58 AM
César Franck (1822-1890)
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue (M.21)
Robert Silverman (Piano)

06:19 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Academic Festival Overture, Op.80
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (Conductor)


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