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

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Through the Night

Music: Classical

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

Through the Night: Razumovsky in the Alps

Sven-David Sandstrom's St John Passion

Razumovsky in the Alps

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Razumovsky in the Alps

The Ebene Quartet perform Beethoven and Faure in Verbier. Presented by John Shea.

The Ebene Quartet perform Beethoven and Faure as well as some jazz standards in Verbier. Presented by John Shea. 

12:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Quartet in D major, Op 18, No 3
Ebene Quartet

12:56 AM
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
String Quartet in E minor, Op 121
Ebene Quartet

01:19 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Quartet in C major, Op 59, No 3, 'Razumovsky'
Ebene Quartet

01:50 AM
Miles Davis (1926-1991)
Milestones
Ebene Quartet

01:54 AM
Thelonious Monk (1917-1982)
Round Midnight
Ebene Quartet

01:58 AM
Francois Couperin (1668-1733)
Les Fastes de la grande et ancienne Menestrandise
Jautrite Putnina (piano)

02:08 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Suite for orchestra No 3 in D major,BWV 1068
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ketil Haugsand (conductor)

02:31 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Symphony No 3 in C minor, Op 78, 'Organ Symphony'
Karstein Askeland (organ), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Vedernikov (conductor)

03:08 AM
Robert de Visee (c.1655-1733)
Suite in A major
Yasunori Imamura (theorbo)

03:21 AM
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
The Flying Dutchman, Overture
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

03:33 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Ave Maria
Eolina Quartet

03:38 AM
Robert Schumann
Overture, Genoveva,  Op 81
Orchestre Nationale de France, Heinz Wallberg (conductor)

03:48 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Keyboard Concerto No 5 in F minor, BWV 1056
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Risor Festival Strings

03:59 AM
Hjalmar Borgstrom (1864-1925)
Music to Johan Gabriel Borkman
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Kjell Seim (conductor)

04:10 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Tu del Ciel ministro eletto (excerpt 'Il Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno')
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)

04:17 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Violin Concerto in F minor, RV.297 'L'Inverno'
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (director)

04:25 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Marriage of Figaro,  overture
Danish Radio Chamber Orchestra, Adam Fischer (conductor)

04:31 AM
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732-1795)
Symphony in D minor, WFV I:3
Les Passions de L'Ame, Meret Luthi (conductor)

04:40 AM
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Intermezzo (excerpt Manon Lescaut (between Acts 2 and 3))
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

04:45 AM
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Nocturne No 4 in E flat major, Op 36
Stephane Lemelin (piano)

04:52 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Iberia: Images for Orchestra, No. 2 (1909)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Jun Markl (conductor)

05:15 AM
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Andante molto, 3rd movement from the Symphonic Suite "Roma"
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava, Oliver Dohnanyi (conductor)

05:22 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Keyboard Partita No 1 in B flat major, BWV 825
Beatrice Rana (piano)

05:40 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Symphony No  3 in A minor,  Op 56 'Scottish'
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcin Nalecz-Niesiolowski (conductor)

06:18 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Keyboard Sonata in B flat major,  Hob.16.41
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)

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