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

BBC Radio 3

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Through the Night

Music: Classical

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

Through the Night: Early music revival of the 1900s

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Early music revival of the 1900s

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Early music revival of the 1900s

Catriona Young presents a recreation of a Riccardo Vines' piano recital.

Recreation of a Riccardo Vines Piano recital.  With Catriona Young.

12:31 AM
Antonio de Cabezón (c1510-1566)
Diferencias sobre el Canto del caballero
Miquel Villalba (Piano)

12:34 AM
Juan Moreno (1711-1776)
Minuetto, from 'Sonatina in F'
Miquel Villalba (Piano)

12:40 AM
William Byrd (1538-1623)
Pavane in A minor ('Earl of Salisbury')
Miquel Villalba (Piano)

12:41 AM
John Bull (c.1562-1628)
The King's Hunt
Miquel Villalba (Piano)

12:44 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Prelude in C
Miquel Villalba (Piano)

12:45 AM
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Fugue in G minor
Miquel Villalba (Piano)

12:49 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in D
Miquel Villalba (Piano)

12:55 AM
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (c.1601-1672)
La Loureuse
Miquel Villalba (Piano)

12:58 AM
François Couperin (1668-1733)
Les vieux seigneurs
Miquel Villalba (Piano)

01:01 AM
François Couperin 
L'Arlequin
Miquel Villalba (Piano)

01:03 AM
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Les tourbillons
Miquel Villalba (Piano)

01:05 AM
Jean-François Dandrieu (1682-1738)
L'hymen
Miquel Villalba (Piano)

01:08 AM
Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722)
Prelude and Minuet (Partita No. 3 in E major)
Miquel Villalba (Piano)

01:10 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach
Invention in B minor, BWV.786
Miquel Villalba (Piano)

01:12 AM
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Capriccio in G minor, HWV 483
Miquel Villalba (Piano)

01:13 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Les langueurs tendres, WQ 117/30
Miquel Villalba (Piano)

01:15 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Allegro con brio, from Sonata in D, Hob. XVI:37
Miquel Villalba (Piano)

01:19 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach, (arr. Liszt)
Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV.543/S. 462
Miquel Villalba (Piano)

01:29 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), 
Prelude and fugue in E flat major BWV.552 (St Anne), orch. Schoenberg
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart (Conductor)

01:46 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Suite italienne for violin and piano (1933)
Narek Hakhnazaryan (Cello), Oxana Shevchenko (Piano)

02:05 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music (Op.61)
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt (Conductor)

02:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Violin Concerto in D major (Op.61)
Christian Tetzlaff (Violin), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Michael Stern (Conductor)

03:11 AM
Franz Schubert
String Quartet in D major, D.74
Quartetto Bernini

03:35 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Waltz for piano in E flat major "Grande valse brillante" Op.18
Ingrid Fliter (Piano)

03:40 AM
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto da Camera in F major (RV.99)
Camerata Köln

03:48 AM
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Overture from 'Der Freischutz'
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery (Conductor)

03:59 AM
Franz Schubert, Friedrich Schiller (Author)
Der Alpenjager (D.588b)  (Op.37 No.2)
Christoph Prégardien (Tenor), Andreas Staier (Pianoforte)

04:05 AM
Frank Bridge (1879-1941)
Miniatures: Set 3 No 2 in G minor, 'Hornpipe' (Allegro moderato)
Moshe Hammer (Violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (Cello), William Tritt (Piano)

04:08 AM
Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805-1900)
Etudes instructives (Op.53) (1851)
Nina Gade (Piano)

04:18 AM
Johannes Bernardus van Bree (1801-1857)
Concert Overture in B minor
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen (Conductor)

04:31 AM
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga (1806-1826)
Los Esclavos Felices - overture
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Juanjo Mena (Conductor)

04:39 AM
Johann Philipp Kirnberger (1721-1783)
Cantata, 'An den Flussen Babylons'
Johannes Happel (Bass), Balthasar-Neumann-Chor, Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, Detlef Bratschke (Conductor)

04:51 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), 
Rondo (Concert rondo) for horn and orchestra  in E flat major (K.371) (arr. Kocsis)
László Gál (Horn), Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zóltan Kocsis (Conductor)

04:58 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
The Hebrides Overture, Op 26
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcin Nalecz-Niesiolowski (Conductor)

05:09 AM
Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585)
Gloria from Mass Puer natus est nobis for 7 voices
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (Conductor)

05:18 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony No.64 in A major, 'Tempora mutantur' (Hob: I/64)
Danish Radio Sinfonietta, Rolf Gupta (Conductor)

05:39 AM
Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611/2-1675)
Suite in G minor/G major for gambas
Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall (Director)

05:49 AM
Paule Maurice (1910-67)
Tableaux de Provence - 5 pieces for saxophone and orchestra
Julia Nolan (Saxophone), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (Conductor)

06:04 AM
Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (1711-1772)
Grand Motet 'Dominus regnavit'
Ann Monoyios (Soprano), Matthew White (Counter Tenor), Colin Ainsworth (Tenor), Tafelmusik Chamber Choir and Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (Conductor)

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