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Through the Night: Pour le piano

Helmuth Rilling conducts Bach cantatas

Pour le piano

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Pour le piano

Beatrice Rana plays piano music by Clementi, Liszt and Debussy. Jonathan Swain presents.

Recent Radio 3 New Generation Artist Beatrice Rana plays piano music by Clementi, Liszt and Debussy. Jonathan Swain presents.

Jonathan Swain presents piano music played by recent Radio 3 New Generation Artist Beatrice Rana, including Sonatas by Clementi and Liszt, and Debussy's Pour le piano.

12:31 AM
Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)
Sonata in B minor Op.40, No.2 for piano
Beatrice Rana (Piano)

12:48 AM
Claude Debussy
Pour le piano
Beatrice Rana (Piano)

01:03 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Sonata in B minor S.178 for piano
Beatrice Rana (Piano)

01:37 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
String Octet in E flat major, Op 20 
Leonidas Kavakos (Violin), Per KristianSkalstad (Violin), Frode Larsen (Violin), Tor Johan Bøen (Violin), Lars Anders Tomter (Viola), Catherine Bullock (Viola), Øystein Sonstad (Cello), Ernst Simon Glaser (Cello)

02:09 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Suite for Orchestra No 2 in B minor, BWV.1067
Jan Dewinne (Flute), Ensemble 415

02:31 AM
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Romeo et Juliette - symphonie dramatique (Op.17) 
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda (Conductor)

03:24 AM
Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840),Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Variations On A Theme from 'Moses in Egypt'
Edgar Moreau (Cello), Pierre-Yves Hodique (Piano)

03:32 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in B flat major for wind ensemble
Bratislavska Komorna Harmonia

03:45 AM
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Barcarolle (Op.60)
Ronald Brautigam (Fortepiano)

03:54 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Overture (Egmont, Op 84)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Arthur Fagan (Conductor)

04:03 AM
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Caesar's aria: "Va tacito e nascosto" from Giulio Cesare
Graham Pushee (Counter Tenor), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (Artistic Director)

04:11 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
8 Instrumental miniatures for 15 instruments
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (Director)

04:19 AM
Maxim Berezovsky (1745-1777)
Ne otverzhy mene vo vremia starosti
Dumka Academic Cappella, Evgeny Savchuk (Director)

04:31 AM
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Overture to The Maid of Pskov
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (Conductor)

04:39 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Prelude (Introduction)  from Capriccio - opera in 1 act (Op.85)
Henschel Quartett, Soo-Jin Hong (Violin), Soo-Kyung Hong (Cello)

04:51 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Sonata Polonaise in A minor for violin, viola and continuo TWV 42
La Stagione Frankfurt

04:58 AM
Johannes Ockeghem (c.1410-1497)
Intemerata Dei mater
Hilliard Ensemble

05:07 AM
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Quartet no.1 in F major for flute, clarinet, bassoon and horn
Canberra Wind Soloists

05:18 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Impromptu No.4 in A flat major - from 4 Impromptus (D.899) for piano
Sook-Hyun Cho (Piano)

05:25 AM
Claude Debussy, Zóltan Kocsis (Transcriber)
Arabesque No.1 in E major 
Béla Horváth (Oboe), Anita Szabó (Flute), Zsolt Szatmári (Clarinet), György Salamon (Bass Clarinet), Pál Bokor (Bassoon), Tamás Zempléni (Horn), Péter Kubina (Double Bass)

05:29 AM
Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1554-1612)
Sonata Pian'e forte alla quarta bassa a 8 (B.2.64)   for wind
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (Conductor)

05:34 AM
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
La Bonne chanson Op.61, arr. for voice, piano & string quartet
Ruby Hughes (Soprano), Signum Quartet, James Baillieu (Piano), Lachlan Radford (Double Bass)

06:00 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No.1 in C major, Op.21
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, Frans Brüggen (Conductor)


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