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Through the Night: Twenty Years of the Casals Quartet

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Twenty Years of the Casals Quartet

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The Casals Quartet perform Beethoven's String Quartets Nos 1 and 8.

To celebrate their 20th anniversary in 2017, the Casals Quartet performed all of Beethoven's string quartets in six concerts. Tonight, No 1 and No 8. Jonathan Swain presents.

To celebrate their anniversary the Casals Quartet performed all of Beethoven's string quartets over the course of six concerts. Each concert also contained a world premiere of a new quartet. Tonight we hear Beethoven's Quartets Nos 1 and 8 and Aureliano Cattaneo's String Quartet 'Neben'. Jonathan Swain presents.

12:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Quartet No 1 in F, Op 18 No 1
Casals Quartet

12:58 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Quartet in F, Op 14 No 1 (after the Piano Sonata)
Casals Quartet

01:12 AM
Aureliano Cattaneo (1974-)
String Quartet 'Neben'
Casals Quartet

01:24 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Quartet No 8 in E minor, Op 59 No 2 'Razumovsky'
Casals Quartet

01:59 AM
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Pablo Casals (arranger)
Apres un reve, Op 7 No 1 arr. for cello & piano
Andreas Brantelid (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano)

02:03 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Vocalise, Op 34 No 14 for orchestra
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)

02:09 AM
Henryk Gorecki (1933-2010)
Concerto – Cantata for flute and orchestra, Op 65
Carol Wincenc (flute), National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Michniewski (conductor)

02:31 AM
Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672)
Matthaus-Passion (SWV.479)
Paul Elliott (tenor), Paul Hillier (bass), Hilliard Ensemble, Paul Hillier (director)

03:26 AM
Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
Polovtsian dances (Prince Igor)
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Stuart Challender (conductor)

03:37 AM
John B Escosa (1928-1991)
Three Dances for 2 harps
Julia Shaw (harp), Nora Bumanis (harp)

03:43 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Eight Landler (German dances) (from D.790)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

03:51 AM
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Concerto for String Orchestra
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Dohnanyi (conductor)

04:06 AM
Pierre Mercure (1927-1966)
Pantomime for wind and percussion
Edmonton Wind Ensemble, Harry Pinchin (conductor)

04:11 AM
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Italian Serenade
Ljubljanski Godalni Quartet

04:20 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in A major (RV.335), "The Cuckoo"
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (director)

04:31 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Gaspard de la nuit (Scarbo)
Plamena Mangova (piano)

04:42 AM
Igor Stravinsky
Rag-time for 11 instruments
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (director)

04:47 AM
Scott Joplin (1868-1917)
Gladiolus Rag (1909)
Donna Coleman (piano)

04:51 AM
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Penthesilea, for soprano and orchestra
Elzbieta Szmytka (soprano), Orchestre National de France, Hans Graf (conductor)

04:58 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Adagio in E flat (WoO.43 No.2) for mandolin and piano
Lajos Mayer (mandolin), Imre Rohmann (piano)

05:03 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Choral dances from 'Gloriana' vers. chorus a capella
BBC Singers, Stephen Layton (conductor)

05:12 AM
Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840)
Violin Concerto No.2 in B minor, Op 7 - 3rd movement 'La Campanella'
Viktor Pikajzen (violin), Evgenia Sejdelj (piano)

05:21 AM
Harrison Birtwistle (b. 1934)
Night's Black Bird for orchestra
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)

05:34 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
La Cathedrale engloutie - no.10 from Preludes book 1 (1910)
Philippe Cassard (piano)

05:40 AM
Fernando Sor (1778-1839)
Introduction and variations on Mozart's 'O cara armonia' for guitar (Op 9)
Xavier Diaz-Latorre (guitar)

05:48 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony no 6 in D major 'Le Matin'
National Arts Centre Orchestra, Gabriel Chmura (conductor)

06:06 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Come, ye sons of Art, away (Ode for the birthday of Queen Mary (1694), Z323)
Anna Mikolajczyk (soprano), Henning Voss (contralto), Robert Lawaty (counter tenor), Miroslaw Borczynski (bass), Sine Nomine Chamber Choir, Concerto Polacco Baroque Orchestra, Marek Toporowski (director)

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