Through the Night

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Through the Night: An Ode to Life

Helmuth Rilling conducts Bach cantatas

An Ode to Life

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, An Ode to Life

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra with Strauss's Four Last Songs. Jonathan Swain presents.

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in concert in 2020 performing Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs and Beethoven's 'Pastoral' Symphony. With Jonathan Swain.

The first symphony concert by the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, conducted by its music director Long Yu, after the outbreak of Covid-19. They perform Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs and Beethoven's 'Pastoral' Symphony. With Jonathan Swain.

01:01 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Solveig's Song from 'Peer Gynt Suite'
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Long Yu (conductor)

01:07 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs), AV 150
Liping Zhang (soprano), Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Long Yu (conductor)

01:27 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony no 6 in F, Op 68 ('Pastoral')
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Long Yu (conductor)

02:08 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Hail, Bright Cecilia: Ode for St Cecilia's Day, Z.328
Grace Davidson (soprano), Alex Potter (counter tenor), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), Damien Guillon (counter tenor), Peter Kooij (bass), Samuel Boden (tenor), Collegium Vocale Ghent, Philippe Herreweghe (director)

03:01 AM
Marjan Mozetich (b.1948)
Affairs of the Heart: a Concerto for Violin & String Orchestra (1997)
Juliette Kang (violin), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)

03:24 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
10 Pensees lyriques for piano, Op 40
Eero Heinonen (piano)

03:43 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Capriccio Italien, Op 45
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrey Boreyko (conductor)

03:59 AM
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Trio Sonata in D minor, Op 1 No 11
London Baroque

04:05 AM
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Lied (Lenau): Larghetto; Wanderlied: Presto Op 8 Nos 3 & 4 (1840)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)

04:11 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
4 songs from Im Grünen, Op 59 - Nos 1, 4, 5 & 6
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

04:20 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Flute Quartet No 4 in A major K298
Tom Ottar Andreassen (flute), Frode Larsen (violin), Jon Sonstebo (viola), Emery Cardas (cello)

04:32 AM
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Overture from Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)
Polish Radio Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor)

04:39 AM
Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896)
Aria: "Elle ne croyait pas" (from "Mignon", Act 3)
Benjamin Butterfield (tenor), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)

04:44 AM
Charles Gounod (1818-1893),Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Meditation sur le premier prelude de Bach (Ave Maria)
Kyung-Ok Park (cello), Myung-Ja Kwun (harp)

04:49 AM
Robert Kajanus (1856-1933)
Finnish Rhapsody No 1
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (conductor)

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