Through the Night

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Through the Night: Verdi's Requiem

John Shea - Through the Night

Verdi's Requiem

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Verdi's Requiem

Han-Na Chang conducts the Oslo Philharmonic and its choir in Verdi's Messa da requiem.

In his monumental Messa da requiem, Giuseppe Verdi channelled his grief over losing two great idols – the composer Gioachino Rossini and the writer Alessandro Manzoni. Han-Na Chang conducts the Oslo Philharmonic and its choir in this music full of large contrasts and powerful emotions. John Shea presents.

12:31 AM
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Requiem
Miah Persson (soprano), Tone Kummervold (contralto), Bror Magnus Todenes (tenor), Mika Kares (bass), Oslo Philharmonic Chorus, Oslo Philharmonic, Han-Na Chang (conductor)

01:59 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
String Quartet in F major
New Helsinki Quartet

02:31 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Symphonische Etuden for piano, Op 13
Beatrice Rana (piano)

02:56 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony no 103 in E flat major, Hob.I:103 (Drumroll)
Swiss National Youth Orchestra, Kai Bumann (conductor)

03:27 AM
Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594)
3 motets: Jubilate Deo; Io ti voria; Tristis est anima mea
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Paul van Nevel (conductor)

03:33 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Piano Quartet in A minor
Marianna Shirinyan (piano), Nevena Tochev (violin), Alessandro D'Amico (viola), Rafael Rosenfeld (cello)

03:45 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Lascia la spina, from Il Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno
Julia Lezhneva (soprano), Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)

03:53 AM
Alberta Suriani (1920-1977)
Partita for harp
Branka Janjanin-Magdalenic (harp)

04:03 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Divertimento in B flat major, K 137
Orchestra Libera Classica, Hidemi Suzuki (conductor)

04:16 AM
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), Dario Castello (fl.1621-1629)
2 Madrigals by Monteverdi and a Sonate a 3 by Dario Castello
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (director)

04:31 AM
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
La forza del destino (Overture)
KBS Symphony Orchestra, Chi-Yong Chung (conductor)

04:39 AM
Judith Weir (1954-)
String quartet
Silesian Quartet

04:51 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto for flute in D major RV.428, 'Il Gardellino'
Karl Kaiser (flute), Camerata Koln

05:03 AM
Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613)
Ave dulcissima Maria
Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

05:10 AM
Toivo Kuula (1883-1918)
Prelude and Fugue for orchestra Op 10 (1909)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pertti Pekkanen (conductor)

05:20 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Preludes, Op 28 (Nos 16-20)
Krzysztof Jablonski (piano)

05:28 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony No 33 in B flat major, K 319
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)

05:49 AM
Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750)
Suite in D minor
Konrad Junghanel (lute)

06:05 AM
Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880)
Violin Concerto no 2 in D minor, Op 22
Bartek Niziol (violin), Sinfonia Varsovia, Grzegorz Nowak (conductor)

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