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Through the Night

Music: Classical

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

Through the Night: In Mahler's night garden

Helmuth Rilling conducts Bach cantatas

In Mahler's night garden

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, In Mahler's night garden

The Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop perform Mahler's Symphony No 7.

The Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop perform Mahler's Symphony No 7. Introduced by Jonathan Swain.

The São Paulo Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop take a journey through the night in Mahler's 7th Symphony introduced by Jonathan Swain.

12:31 am
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) 
Symphony No 7 in E minor
Sao Paolo Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop (conductor)

1:53 am
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) 
Piano Trio No 3 in C minor, Op 101
Christopher Krenyak (violin), Jan Insinger (cello), Dido Keuning (piano)

2:13 am
Blagoje Bersa (1873-1934) 
Suncana Polja 
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazushi Ono (conductor)

2:31 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) 
Violin Concerto No 5 in A major, K 219 'Turkish'
Bartlomiej Niziol (violin), Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Neville Marriner (conductor) 

3:01 am
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941), Stanislaw Wiechowicz (arranger) 
6 Lieder, Op 18 (arranged for choir)
Polish Radio Chorus, Wlodzimierz Siedlik (conductor)

3:13 am
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) 
Sonata in D major K 96 'La Chasse'
Daniel Blumenthal (piano)

3:16 am
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) 
Symphony No 73 in D major, Hob.1.73, 'La Chasse'
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Pavle Dešpalj (conductor)

3:38 am
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643),Ottavio Rinuccini (1562-1621) 
Lamento della ninfa
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (director)

3:43 am
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) 
Serenata in vano, FS 68 (for clarinet, horn, bassoon, cello & d.bass)
Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound, James Campbell (conductor)

3:51 am
Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Joseph Eichendorff (author) 
Wehmut (No 9) & Im Walde (No 11) from Liederkreis, Op 39
Olle Persson (baritone), Stefan Bojsten (piano)

3:55 am
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 
Partita No 1 in B flat major, BWV 825
Zhang Zuo (piano)

4:08 am
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) 
Romance for viola and piano
Steven Dann (viola), Bruce Vogt (piano)

4:15 am
Vatroslav Lisinski (1819-1854) 
Grand Overture No 7
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Ilmar Lapinjs (conductor)

4:31 am
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) 
3 Pieces for piano
Niklas Sivelöv (piano)

4:37 am
William Walton (1902-1983) 
Johannesburg Festival Overture
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, David Atherton (conductor)

4:45 am
Michael Haydn (1737-1806) 
Missa Tempore Quadragesimae, MH 553
Ex Tempore, Marian Minnen (cello), Elise Christiaens (violone), David Van Bouwel (organ), Florian Heyerick (director) 

4:59 am
Anonymous 
Toccata; Angelus pastoribus 
Marek Toporowski (chamber organ)

5:04 am
Graeme Koehne (b.1956) 
Unchained Melody 
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, David Porcelijn (conductor)

5:15 am
Pietro Locatelli (1695-1764) 
Concerto grosso in E flat major, Op 7 No 6, 'Il Pianto d'Arianna'
Amsterdam Bach Soloists

5:31 am
Franz Schreker (1878-1934) 
Symphonic Interlude from The Treasure-Seeker
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

5:46 am
Antonio Soler (1729-1783) 
Fandango for keyboard in D minor, R 146
Scott Ross (harpsichord)

5:58 am
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) 
Quartet for strings in C major, Op 59 No 3 'Rasumovsky'
Yggdrasil String Quartet

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