Through the Night

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Through the Night: Grieg, Sibelius, Sally Beamish and Nielsen

Jonathan Swain - Through the Night

Grieg, Sibelius, Sally Beamish and Nielsen

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Grieg, Sibelius, Sally Beamish and Nielsen

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra perform the world premiere of Sally Beamishs's Distans.

The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Janine Jansen and Martin Fröst perform the world premiere of Sally Beamish's double concerto Distans. Plus music by Grieg, Sibelius and Nielsen.

The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra meet soloists Janine Jansen and Martin Fröst in a concert permeated by Nordic sounds. The world premiere of double concerto Distans by Sally Beamish, written for Jansen and Fröst, is interwoven with a string of works from Nordic musical history: Grieg’s Peer Gynt prelude, Sibelius’s symphonic poem The Bard, and Nielsen’s First Symphony in G minor. Jonathan Swain presents.

12:31 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Prelude, 'At the Wedding', from Act I of 'Peer Gynt, Op 23'
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Gustavsson (conductor)

12:37 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Barden, Op 64 
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Gustavsson (conductor)

12:46 AM
Sally Beamish (b.1956)
'Distans', double concerto for violin and clarinet
Janine Jansen (violin), Martin Frost (clarinet), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Gustavsson (conductor)

01:16 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Symphony no 1 in G minor, Op 7
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Gustavsson (conductor)

01:49 AM
Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Violin Sonata in A major (M.8)
Janine Jansen (violin), Kathryn Stott (piano)

02:17 AM
Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)
Vltava (Ma Vlast)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Matthias Foremny (conductor)

02:31 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Exsultate, jubilate - motet for soprano and orchestra (K 165)
Ellen van Lier (soprano), Netherlands Radio Orchestra, Roelof Van Driesten (conductor)

02:47 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Rinaldo Alessandrini (arranger)
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord), Concerto Italiano

03:31 AM
Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915)
Prelude and Nocturne for the Left Hand Op 9
Martina Filjak (piano)

03:42 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828),Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Sehnsucht (D.123) (Longing)
Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)

03:45 AM
Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
On hearing the first cuckoo in spring for orchestra (RT.6.19) (1911/12)
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)

03:54 AM
Pauline Viardot (1821-1910)
Choeur des elfes
Olivia Robinson (soprano), BBC Singers, Elizabeth Burgess (piano), Grace Rossiter (conductor)

04:00 AM
Bernhard Henrik Crusell (1775-1838)
Introduction et Air Suedois 
Anna-Maija Korsimaa (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)

04:11 AM
Albertus Groneman (c.1710-1778)
Concerto in G major for solo flute, two flutes, viola & basso continuo
Jed Wentz (flute), Marion Moonen (flute), Cordula Breuer (flute), Musica ad Rhenum

04:19 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Impromptu in G flat, D 899
Schaghajegh Nosrati (piano)

04:26 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
The Child Juliet (from Romeo and Juliet - suite no. 2 Op.64)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Maksymiuk (conductor)

04:31 AM
Thomas Baltzar (1630-1663)
John, Come Kiss Me Now, in G
Ilia Korol (violin), Jermaine Sprosse (harpsichord)

04:37 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Duet: Fra gli amplessi - from "Cosi fan tutte"
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), Michael Schade (tenor), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)

04:43 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Gigues - from Images for Orchestra
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)

04:51 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), Alan Civil (arranger)
Suite for Brass Quintet
Brass Consort Koln

05:02 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), Jan Hemmer (author)
Jordens sang (Song of the Earth), Op 93
Academic Choral Society, Helsinki Cathedral Chorus, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ulf Soderblom (conductor)

05:21 AM
Toivo Kuula (1883-1918)
3 Satukuvaa (Fairy-tale pictures) for piano (Op.19)
Juhani Lagerspetz (piano)

05:36 AM
Philip Glass (1937-)
Violin Concerto No 1
Piotr Plawner (violin), Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra Katowice, Michal Klauza (conductor)

06:02 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
5 Ruckert-Lieder
Jadwiga Rappe (alto), Ewa Poblocka (piano)

06:21 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Barcarolle, Op 60
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)

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