Through the Night

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Through the Night: Winner of the 18th Chopin International Piano Competition

John Shea - Through the Night

Winner of the 18th Chopin International Piano Competition

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Winner of the 18th Chopin International Piano Competition

Bruce Liu performs Chopin. John Shea presents.

Bruce Liu performs Chopin's Four Mazurkas, Op 33, Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat minor and Variations on 'Là ci darem la mano'. John Shea presents.

First Prize winner Bruce Liu performs Chopin's Four Mazurkas, Op 33, Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat minor and Variations on 'Là ci darem la mano'. John Shea presents.

12:31 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Four Mazurkas, Op 33
Bruce Liu (piano)

12:41 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Piano Sonata no 2 in B flat minor, Op 35
Bruce Liu (piano)

01:07 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Variations on 'Là ci darem la mano', Op 2
Bruce Liu (piano)

01:24 AM
Witold Maliszewski (1873-1939)
Symphony no 1 in G minor, Op 8
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)

01:59 AM
Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872)
String Quartet No.1 in D minor (1837-1840)
Camerata Quartet

02:15 AM
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Partita for orchestra 
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)

02:31 AM
Anonymous
Lauda Jerusalem (Psalm)
Claire Lefilliatre (soprano), Marnix De Cat (alto), Han Warmelinck (tenor), Currende, Erik van Nevel (director)

02:51 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Cello Sonata in A major, Op 69
Jong-Young Lee (cello), Keum-Bong Kim (piano)

03:16 AM
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
A Night on Bare Mountain, symphonic poem
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)

03:28 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Alpestre monte (HWV.81) for soprano, 2 violins & basso
Susie Le Blanc (soprano), Ensemble Tempo Rubato

03:39 AM
John Field (1782-1837)
Andante inédit in E flat major for piano
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)

03:47 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Franz Danzi (arranger)
Duos from Cosí fan Tutte
Duo Fouquet (duo), Elizabeth Dolin (cello), Guy Fouquet (cello)

03:56 AM
Franz Lehar (1870-1948)
Aria "Nem szeret igy teged mas" from 'Paganini'
Magda Kalmar (soprano), Denes Gulyas (tenor), Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Andras Sebestyen (conductor)

04:00 AM
Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012), David Lindup (arranger)
Murder on the Orient Express - music from the film (arr. Lindup)
BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba (conductor)

04:12 AM
Willy Hess (1906-1997)
Suite in B flat major for piano solo, Op 45
Desmond Wright (piano)

04:23 AM
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c.1620-1680)
Sonata in D major for 3 violins and continuo
Il Giardino Armonico

04:31 AM
Jozef Elsner (1769-1854)
Echo w leise  (Overture)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Straszynski (conductor)

04:37 AM
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), Eugene Ysaye (arranger)
Caprice for violin and piano, arr. Ysaye after Saint-Saëns
Minami Yoshida (violin), Jean Desmarais (piano)

04:46 AM
Nigel Westlake (b.1958)
Winter in the Forgotten Valley
Guitar Trek, Timothy Kain (guitar), Fiona Walsh (guitar), Richard Strasser (guitar), Peter Constant (guitar)

04:58 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Franz Liszt (transcriber)
Ave Maria, D839
Sylviane Deferne (piano)

05:06 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
4 Choral Songs, Op 53
BBC Symphony Chorus, Stephen Jackson (conductor)

05:21 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 129
Andreas Brantelid (cello), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Eri Klas (conductor)

05:44 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Timon of Athens, the man-hater - incidental music (Z.632)
Lynne Dawson (soprano), Gillian Fisher (soprano), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Paul Elliott (tenor), Michael George (bass), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

06:05 AM
Ester Magi (1922-2021)
Bucolic
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Volmer (conductor)

06:15 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Trio for keyboard and strings in G major (H.15.25) 'Gypsy Rondo'
Grieg Trio

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