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Through the Night: Moldovan National Chamber Orchestra

Helmuth Rilling conducts Bach cantatas

Moldovan National Chamber Orchestra

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Moldovan National Chamber Orchestra

Handel's Concerto Grosso in D from a concert in Moldova. Presented by Jonathan Swain.

Handel's Concerto Grosso in D and Cimarosa's Requiem in G minor from a concert in Moldova. Presented by Jonathan Swain.

Jonathan Swain presents a concert from Moldova. 

12:31 AM
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Concerto Grosso in Dmajor, HWV 323
Moldovan National Chamber Orchestra, Leonardo Quadrini (Conductor)

12:47 AM
Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801)
Requiem in G minor (Missa pro Defunctis)
Ghiulnara Raileanu (Soprano), Liliana Marin (Mezzo Soprano), Ion Timofti (Tenor), Alexei Digore (Baritone), Moldovan National Chamber Chorus, Ilona Stepan (Director), Moldovan National Chamber Orchestra, Leonardo Quadrini (Conductor)

01:59 AM
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927)
String Quartet No.2 in C minor, Op 14
Yggdrasil String Quartet

02:31 AM
Witold Maliszewski (1873-1939)
Symphony No 1 in G minor, Op 8
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Łukasz Borowicz (Conductor)

03:06 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Symphonische Etuden, Op.13,  
Mikhail Pletnev (Piano)

03:39 AM
Toivo Kuula
Sorrow for cello and orchestra
Arto Noras (Cello), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jorma Panula (Conductor)

03:45 AM
Thomas Wiggins (1849-1908)
Battle of Manassas (1861) 
John Davis (Piano)

03:54 AM
Louis Spohr (1784-1859)
Harp Fantasia No 2 in C minor , Op 35
Mojca Zlobko Vaigl (Harp)

04:03 AM
Joseph Haydn,Ignace Joseph Pleyel (1757-1831), Harold Perry (Arranger)
Divertimento 'Feldpartita' in B flat major, H.2.46
Academic Wind Quintet

04:12 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
3 Studies Op.104b for piano
Sylviane Deferne (Piano)

04:21 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Francesco Squarcia (Arranger)
3 Hungarian Dances
I Cameristi Italiani

04:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Rondino in E flat,  WoO 25
The Festival Winds

04:38 AM
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Dica il falso, dica il vero -- from Alessandro Act 2 Scene 8
Emma Kirkby (Soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze (Director)

04:43 AM
Hendrik Andriessen (1892-1981)
Variations and fugue on a theme by Kuhnau
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, David Porcelijn (Conductor)

04:57 AM
Paul Schoenfield (b.1947)
4 Souvenirs for violin and piano
Elena Urioste (Violin), Michael Brown (Piano)

05:09 AM
George Gershwin ((1898-1937))
Piano medley
Bengt-Åke Lundin (Piano)

05:16 AM
Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904)
Suite in A major, Op 98b
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra Katowice, Stanislaw Macura (Conductor)

05:36 AM
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Clarinet Quintet in B flat major, Op 34
Jože Kotar (Clarinet), Slovenian Philharmonic String Quartet

06:01 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata in C minor, K457
Kristian Bezuidenhout (Fortepiano)

06:18 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Hymne de l'enfant a son reveil,  S19
Éva Andor (Soprano), Hédi Lubik (Harp), Gábor Lehotka (Organ), Girls' Choir of Gyõr, Miklós Szabó (Conductor)


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