Through the Night

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Through the Night: Festive Music from Aachen

Helmuth Rilling conducts Bach cantatas

Festive Music from Aachen

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Festive Music from Aachen

WDR Radio Orchestra and soloists celebrate the Advent season. Presented by Jonathan Swain.

WDR Radio Orchestra and soloists celebrate the contemplative Advent season. Pesented by Jonathan Swain.

WDR Radio Orchestra celebrates Advent. With Jonathan Swain.

12:31 AM
Traditional
Macht hoch die Tür
Chorwerk Ruhr, Aachen Cathedral Girls' Choir

12:33
George Frideric Handel
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, from 'Solomon'
WDR Radio Orchestra, Enrico Delamboye (conductor)

12:36
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ave Maria
Polina Pastirchak (soprano), WDR Radio Orchestra, Enrico Delamboye

12:39
Trad.
Maria durch ein Dornwald ging
Aachen Cathedral Girls' Choir

12:42
Sergei Rachmaninov
Vocalise
Harriet Krijgh (cello), WDR Radio Orchestra, Enrico Delamboye

12:46
Jacques Arcadelt
Ave Maria
Chorwerk Ruhr

12:48
George Frideric Handel)
Tochter Zion, freue dich
Chorwerk Ruhr, Aachen Cathedral Girls' Choir

12:51
Camille Saint-Saens
Prelude (Oratorio de Noël)
WDR Radio Orchestra, Enrico Delamboye

12:54
Georges Bizet
Agnus Dei
Polina Pastirchak (soprano), WDR Radio Orchestra, Enrico Delamboye

12:58
Franz Xaver Gruber
Silent Night, Holy Night
Aachen Cathedral Girls' Choir, Chorwerk Ruhr

01:02
Johann Sebastian Bach
Air (Orchestral Suite No 3 in D, BWV 1068)
WDR Radio Orchestra, Enrico Delamboye

01:05
Trad.
Sei uns willkommen, Herre Christ
WDR Radio Orchestra, Enrico Delamboye

01:08
George Frideric Handel
Hallelujah Chorus (Messiah)
Chorwerk Ruhr, Aachen Cathedral Girls' Choir, WDR Radio Orchestra, Enrico Delamboye

01:12
Trad.
Veni Veni Emmanuel
Aachen Cathedral Girls' Choir

01:14
Cesar Franck
Panis Angelicus
Polina Pastirchak (soprano), WDR Radio Orchestra, Enrico Delamboye (conductor)

01:19
Trad.
O Heiland, reiss die Himmel auf
Chorwerk Ruhr

01:24
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
December (The Seasons)
WDR Radio Orchestra, Enrico Delamboye (conductor)

01:28
Trad.
O du fröhliche, o du selige
Polina Pastirchak (soprano), Chorwerk Ruhr, Aachen Cathedral Girls' Choir, WDR Radio Orchestra, Enrico Delamboye (conductor)

01:31
Johannes Brahms
25 Variations and fugue on a theme by G F Handel for piano, Op 24
Simon Trpceski (piano)

01:57
Antonin Dvorak
Piano Quintet in A major, Op 81
Menahem Pressler (piano), Orlando Quartet

02:31
Alessandro Scarlatti
Cinque Profeti
Barbara Schlick (soprano), Heike Hallaschka (soprano), Kai Wessel (alto), Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Michael Schopper (bass), Vokalensemble La Stagione, Michael Schneider (director)

03:31 
Charles Trenet
Noel
Les chanteurs de Saint-Coeur-de-Marie, Richard Pare (harpsichord), Claude Gosselin (conductor)

03:34
Andrew Ford
Wassails and Lullabies
Anne Cooke (soprano), Matthew Baker (bass), Ian Cleworth (percussion), Rebecca Lagos (percussion), Brian Nixon (percussion), Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir, Antony Walker (conductor)

03:53
Frank Bridge
Sir Roger de Coverley
BBC Concert Orchestra, David Hill (conductor)

03:58
Peter Warlock
Bethlehem Down
BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, David Hill (conductor)

04:03
Trad.
La Vileem colo jos (Down there in Bethlehem)
Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Romanian Madrigal Choir, Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Tiberiu Soare (conductor)

04:06
Bo Holten
Nowell Sing We Now
Micaela Haslam (soprano), BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

04:10
Giuseppe Torelli
Concerto a quattro in forma Pastorale per il Santo Natale
Tafelmusik, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)

04:17
Carlos Salzedo
Concert Variations on "O Tannenbaum"
Judy Loman (harp)

04:21
Trad.
Deck the Hall
Les chanteurs de Saint-Coeur-de-Marie, Richard Pare (harpsichord), Claude Gosselin (conductor)

04:23
Mel Torme
Christmas Medley
Louis Quilico (baritone), Gino Quilico (baritone), Toronto Children's Chorus, Judy Loman (harp), Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Jean Ashworth Bartle (conductor)

04:31
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sinfonia from Christmas Oratorio
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ketil Haugsand (conductor)

04:37
Michael Haydn
Cantata: Run ye shepherds, to the light
Wolfgang Brunner, Salzburger Hofmusik

04:46
Marcel Samuel-Rousseau
Variations Pastorales sur un vieux Noel
Erica Goodman (harp), Amadeus Ensemble

04:55
Trad.
A u sviecie nam navina byla 
Belarussian Radio Academic Chorus, Pavel Shepelev (conductor)

04:57
Traditional Belarusian
Heaven and Earth
Belarusian Radio Academic Choir, Pavel Shepelev (conductor)

04:58
Valery Kalistratov
Kalyada
Belarusian Radio Academic Choir, Pavel Shepelev (conductor)

05:00
Christian Friedrich Ruppe
Christmas Cantata
Francine van der Hayden (soprano), Karin van der Poel (mezzo soprano), Otto Bouwknegt (tenor), Mitchell Sandler (bass), Ensemble Bouzignac, Musica ad Rhenum, Jed Wentz (conductor)

05:32
Robert Schumann
Symphonische Etuden
Beatrice Rana (piano)

05:57
Sergey Prokofiev
Cinderella  - Suite No 1
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

06:25
Adolphe Adam 
Cantique de Noel
Gino Quilico (baritone), Judy Loman (harp), Toronto Children's Chorus, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Jean Ashworth Bartle (conductor)

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