Playlists with tracks by Olivier Messiaen
Friday 15th January 2021
02:00
Breakfast
Friday - Petroc's classical mix
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Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Friday poem.
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Maurice Ravel | Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs) | |
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John Dowland | If my complaints could passions move | |
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Johann Sebastian Bach | Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied | |
Traditional English | The Cheshire Waltz | ||
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Johann Strauss | Frederica-Polka, Op 239 | |
William Byrd | Fantasia no. 2 à 6 | ||
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Arthur Johnston | Cocktails for Two | |
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William Grant Still | Suite for violin and piano: Mother and Child | |
César Franck | Panis Angelicus (Mass, Op 12) | ||
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John Ireland | Tutto e sciolto | |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | String Quartet no.19 in C Major K.465 'Dissonance' (4th mvt) | ||
Claude Debussy | Preludes Book 1: Voiles | ||
Don van Vliet | A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond | ||
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Miriam Hyde | The Fountain | |
Erik Satie | Airs à faire fuir, No. 3: S'inviter (Pièces Froides I.) | ||
Olivier Messiaen | Quartet for the End of Time (Louange a l'immortalite de Jesus) | ||
Felix Mendelssohn | Concert piece no. 2 in D minor Op.114 | ||
Philip Glass | Etude No 14 for piano | ||
Franz Schubert | Symphony no.3 in D major D.200 (4th mvt) | ||
Richard Rodney Bennett | Murder on the Orient Express (Waltz) | ||
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Gottfried Finger | A Ground in D minor | |
Samuel Scheidt | Canzon ad imitationem Bergamasca (Ludi musici I) | ||
Johann Friedrich Fasch | Concerto in D major | ||
Sergey Rachmaninov | Prelude in G sharp minor, Op 32 No 12 |
Sunday 10th January 2021
15:00
The Electronic Century with Gabriel Prokofiev
New Sonic Territories
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Gabriel Prokofiev shares his love of electronically generated sound in classical music.
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Daphne Oram | Four Aspects | |
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Raymond Scott | The Rhythm Modulator | |
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Louis and Bebe Barron | Love At The Swimming Hole | |
François Bayle | Quadrille | ||
Gabriel Prokofiev | Pulse | ||
Raymond Scott Quintette | Twilight In Turkey | ||
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Bernard Parmegiani | Filature | |
György Ligeti | Artikulation | ||
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Suzanne Ciani | "Pop & Pour" Coca-Cola Logo | |
Bernard Parmegiani | Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport | ||
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Holly Herndon | Frontier | |
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Suzanne Ciani | 'Clean Room' ITT TV Spot | |
Charanjit Singh | Raga Bhairav | ||
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Hugh Le Caine | Dripsody | |
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Suzanne Ciani | Part Eight | |
Clara Rockmore | Pièce En Forme De Habanera | ||
Wendy Carlos | Timesteps | ||
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Conrad Schnitzler | 9 | |
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Oleg Buloshkin | Sacrament | |
Olivier Messiaen | Fête Des Belles Eaux | ||
Daphne Oram | Look At Oramics | ||
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Raymond Scott | Lightworks | |
Denis Smalley | Pentes | ||
Raymond Scott | Lightworks (Slow) | ||
Ensemble D'Ondes Martenot De Montréal | Oraison | ||
Raymond Scott | Manhattan Research, Inc. Copyright |
Monday 4th January 2021
07:00
Afternoon Concert
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra (1/3)
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Tom McKinney introduces recent concert recordings from the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra.
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Olivier Messiaen | Trois Petites Liturgies de la Presence Divine | |
Dmitry Shostakovich | Symphony No.13 "Babi Yar" | ||
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Ferruccio Busoni | Nocturne symphonique, Op 43 | |
Joseph Haydn | Cello Concerto No.1 in C |
Saturday 26th December 2020
06:00
Inside Music
Violinist and conductor Pekka Kuusisto with seasonal sounds from Scandinavia and beyond
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Hear a leading musician open up a colourful selection of music from the inside.
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Nat King Cole | The Christmas Song | |
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Joni Mitchell | River |
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John Adams | Short Ride in a Fast Machine |
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Ayub Ogada | Obiero | |
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Vincent Youmans | Tea for Two | |
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Missy Mazzoli | Vespers for Violin | |
Amanda Maier-Rontgen | Violin Sonata in B minor - I. Allegro | ||
Olivier Messiaen | Fêtes des belles eaux, mvmt 6: L'eau (à son maximum de hauteur) | ||
Olli Mustonen | Triple Concerto / Concerto for three violins - Finale | ||
Ellen Reid | The World Was Calling Me | ||
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | The Seasons - December | ||
François Couperin | Les Tours de passe-passe (22e order) | ||
Thomas Adès | 3 Studies from Couperin - Les Tours de passe-passe | ||
Jean Sibelius | En etsi valtaa loistoa Op. 1 No. 4 | ||
Traditional Swedish | Fran himmelen kom angeln Gabriel | ||
Jean Sibelius | Symphony No. 5 - 1st movement | ||
William Byrd | Bow thine ear | ||
Louise Farrenc | Nonet for string & winds in E flat major, Op. 38 - movements 3 & 4 |
Friday 25th December 2020
02:00
Breakfast
Petroc?s Christmas Breakfast
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A Christmas Day special, with Paul Guinery at the piano and featuring listener requests.
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Trad. | Sussex Carol | |
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Maurice Ravel | Lever du Jour (Daphnis et Chloe) | |
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John Lewis | England's Carol | |
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Lili Boulanger | Nocturne | |
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Orlando Gibbons | Go from my window | |
James Walton | Christmas Carol | ||
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Richard Rodgers | South Pacific: There Is Nothin' Like A Dame | |
Johann Sebastian Bach | Cantata 91: Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ | ||
Theo Adam | O Holy Night | ||
Anon | A Scots Tune (Rowallan MS) | ||
Trad. | Sans Day Carol | ||
Anon | A Scotts Tune, by Mr. Lesslie (Balcarres MS) | ||
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Jonathan Rathbone | The Oxen | |
Benjamin Britten | Cuckoo Song | ||
Trad. | Up in the Morning Early | ||
Carl Nielsen | A Dream about 'Silent Night' | ||
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Ludwig van Beethoven | String Quartet in B flat, Op. 130 (Finale. Allegro) | |
Traditional Cornish | Awake with Joy, Salute the Morn | ||
David Evans | Tu Bethlem dref | ||
Mats Wallman | Julottan - Christmas Morning | ||
Träd | The Banks O' Doon | ||
Eaton / L Wagner / Shuman | Penguin At The Waldorf | ||
Ernest John Moeran | Irish Love Song (no.1 of Two Folksong Arrangements) | ||
Nicolò Paganini | Violin Concerto No.1 in D, Op.6 - 3. Rondo: Allegro spiritoso | ||
Francesco Manfredini | Sinfonia Pastorale, Op 2 No 12 | ||
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Olivier Messiaen | La Nativité du Seigneur: Les Anges | |
Haydn Wood | The Horse Guards, Whitehall (from London Landmarks Suite) |
Saturday 19th December 2020
06:00
Inside Music
Conductor and organist Anna Lapwood on musical instinct and unexpected textures
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Hear a leading musician open up a colourful selection of music from the inside.
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Patrick Gowers | An Occasional Trumpet Voluntary | |
Olivier Messiaen | Vocalise-Etude (arranged for clarinet and piano) | ||
Benjamin Britten | This Little Babe & Interlude (from Ceremony of Carols) | ||
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Sleeping Beauty Waltz | |
Caroline Shaw | And the Swallow | ||
Richard Strauss | Rosenkavalier - final trio | ||
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Eleanor Daley | Child with the Starry Crayon | |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Fugue No. 1 in C minor K405 (after BWV 871,2) | ||
Georg Philipp Telemann | Trumpet Concerto, TWV 51:D7 - 1. Adagio | ||
Herbert Howells | Magnificat from 'Collegium Regale' | ||
Johann Sebastian Bach | Keyboard Concerto BWV 1052 - 1st movement | ||
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John Tavener | The Veil of the Temple: Mother of God Here I Stand | |
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges | Sonata for harp and flute - 1st movement, Andante | ||
Joseph Haydn | Piano Trio in A flat HXV No. 14 - 1. Allegro moderato |
Friday 18th December 2020
03:00
Essential Classics
Ian Skelly with Essential Sunrises, Anna Lapwood, Williams's O Adonai
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Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.
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Gustav Holst | The Planets, Op 32 (Neptune, the Mystic) | |
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Peter Maxwell Davies | An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise | |
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Fanny Mendelssohn | Fantasia in G minor | |
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Hector Berlioz | Hungarian March (The Damnation of Faust) | |
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Giovanni Gabrieli | Jubilate Deo | |
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Roderick Williams | O Adonai | |
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Giovanni Sollima | Prelude for Mandolin Solo | |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Dance of the Reed Pipes (The Nutcracker. Act 2) | ||
Anonymous | Swete was the song the Virgine soong | ||
Giuseppe Tartini | Violin Concerto in A major, D 96 | ||
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Mother Ginger and the Clowns (The Nutcracker. Act 2) | ||
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Benjamin Britten | A Ceremony of Carols (Procession) | |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Tea (The Nutcracker. Act 2) | ||
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | Symphony in G major, Wq.173 | ||
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Trepak (The Nutcracker. Act 2) | ||
Claude Debussy | Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (Children's Corner, No 1) | ||
Jan Dismas Zelenka | Trio Sonata No 2 in G Minor, ZWV 181 (2nd mvt) | ||
Johann Sebastian Bach | O Jesulein süss | ||
Sergey Rachmaninov | La Foire (Etudes-tableaux No 2, after Rachmaninov's Op 33 No 4) | ||
Franz Schubert | String Quartet No 4 in C major, D46 (4th mvt) | ||
Joseph Haydn | Cello Concerto no.1 in C major H.7b.1 (3rd mvt) | ||
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Piano Concerto No 14 in E flat major, K 449 (1st mvt, chamber version) | ||
Frédéric Chopin | Mazurka in A minor, 'Notre temps' | ||
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Ludwig van Beethoven | The Creatures of Prometheus Op.43 (Overture) | |
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Gerald Finzi | By Footpath and Stile, Op. 2: No. 3. The Oxen | |
Olivier Messiaen | Transports de joie (L'Ascension, 3rd meditation) | ||
Gerald Finzi | My Spirit Sang All Day, Op.17 no.3 | ||
Ottorino Respighi | Pines of the Janiculum (Pines of Rome, 3rd mvt) |
Tuesday 15th December 2020
07:00
In Tune
Gerald Finley, Fergus Sheil, Pierre-Laurent Aimard
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Sean Rafferty with music and conversation with some of the world's finest musicians.
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Frank Bridge | Sir Roger de Coverley - Christmas Dance | |
Georges Bizet | L'Arlésienne Suite No 1 (Carillon) | ||
Jonathan Ticher | Christmas Carol | ||
Karl Jenkins | Silent night | ||
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Ludwig van Beethoven | Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19 - III Rondo - Allegro molto | |
Olivier Messiaen | Preludes (8) - 3. Le nombre léger | ||
Rob Wright | Beethoven Remixed | ||
Tim Tricker | Christmas Carol | ||
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | The Abduction from the Seraglio (Overture) |
Thursday 10th December 2020
06:00
Afternoon Concert
The BBC Singers and the BBC SSO
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The BBC Singers and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, live in concert.
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Francis Poulenc | Videntes stellam | |
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Francis Poulenc | Quem vidistis pastores | |
Olivier Messiaen | No. 2 Les bergers'(The Shepherds) | ||
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William Byrd | Non vos relinquam orphanos | |
Olivier Messiaen | No. 3 Desseins éternels (Eternal designs) | ||
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Symphony No.34 | ||
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Adrian Peacock | Venite, Gaudete! | |
Olivier Messiaen | No. 5 Les enfants de Dieu (The Children of God) | ||
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Egil Hovland | The Glory of the Father | |
Olivier Messiaen | No. 6 Les anges (The Angels) | ||
Elfrida Andrée | Concert Overture in D | ||
Olivier Messiaen | No. 7 Jesus accepte la souffrance (Jesus accepts suffering) | ||
Olivier Messiaen | No. 8 Les mages (The Magi) | ||
Olivier Messiaen | No. 9 Dieu parmi nous (God among us) | ||
Ildebrando Pizzetti | The Quayside at the port of Famagusta | ||
Olivier Messiaen | No.4 Le verbe (The Word) | ||
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Joanna Marsh | Lord, Thou hast searched me and known me | |
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Pierre Villette | Hymn a la Vierge | |
Naji Hakim | Noel | ||
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Sally Beamish | Reckless | |
Olivier Messiaen | No. 1 La vierge et l'enfant (The Virgin and Child) | ||
Sarah Quartel | This endris night |
Monday 7th December 2020
13:00
Night Tracks
Musical Voyage through Space
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Hannah Peel with an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening.
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Public Service Broadcasting | The Race for Space | |
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Laurie Spiegel | Appalachian Grove I | |
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Phillip Wilkerson | Adrift in Peace | |
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Abul Mogard | Bound Universe | |
Reynaldo Hahn | Les Etoiles (Rondels) | ||
Arnold Schoenberg | String Quartet no.2 Op.10 | ||
Roland Pöntinen | Mercury Dream | ||
Hinako Omori | Teleport | ||
Rued Langgaard | Music of the Sphere (Glimpse of the Sun through Tears) | ||
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Justin Hurwitz | Moon Walk | |
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Spacecraft | Zodiacal Light | |
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Karlheinz Stockhausen | Interstellar no. 7 | |
Terry Riley | One Earth, One People, One Love | ||
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Karlheinz Stockhausen | Interstellar no.10 | |
Tim O'Brien | My sonification of X-rays from black hole Cygnus X-1 | ||
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Karlheinz Stockhausen | Interstellar no.9 | |
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Olivier Messiaen | Le banquet celeste |
Sunday 6th December 2020
18:00
Through the Night
Wagner, Debussy and Stravinsky
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The Halle Orchestra and Sir Mark Elder at the 2018 BBC Proms. Catriona Young presents.
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Olivier Messiaen | Theme and Variations for violin and piano | |
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Igor Stravinsky | Song of the Nightingale | |
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Claude Debussy | Danse sacree et danse profane for harp and strings | |
Frédéric Chopin | Ballade No 2 in F major, Op 38 | ||
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Richard Wagner | Tannhäuser - overture | |
George Enescu | Violin Sonata No 3 in A minor, Op 25, 'dans le caractère populaire roumain' | ||
Alexander Borodin | Notturno (Andante) - from String Quartet No.2 in D | ||
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina | Agnus Dei - super ut-re-mi-fa-sol-la (for 6 and 7 voices) | ||
Antonio Lotti | Sonata for 2 oboes, bassoon and continuo in F major, 'Echo sonata' | ||
Igor Stravinsky | Russian Folk Songs and Firebird Suite | ||
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | Sinfonia for 2 violins and continuo in D major, H.585 | ||
Johann Rosenmüller | Sinfonia Quinta | ||
Claude Debussy | La Damoiselle elue | ||
Johannes Brahms | Variations on a theme of Haydn (Op.56a) 'St Antoni Chorale' vers. for orchestra | ||
Étienne Méhul | Piano Sonata in D major Op.1 No.10 | ||
Josef Rheinberger | Horn Sonata in E flat major, Op 178 | ||
Felix Mendelssohn | Laudate Pueri (motet, Op 39 no 2) | ||
Modest Mussorgsky | Pictures at an Exhibition (orig for piano orch Ravel) | ||
Francis Poulenc | Motets pour un temps de penitence - No.3 Tenebrae & No.4 Tristis est anima mea | ||
Franz Berwald | Piano Trio No 1 in E flat [1849] | ||
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | 3 Characteristic Pieces |
Friday 4th December 2020
03:00
Essential Classics
Suzy Klein
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Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.
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Frederick Delius | On hearing the first cuckoo in spring | |
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Vincenzo Bellini | Norma (Overture) | |
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Igor Stravinsky | Firebird Suite (1919 Version): VII. Finale [Live] | |
Nicola Matteis | Grave / Ground after the Scotch Humour (Ayres for the Violin) | ||
Jean Villard Gilles | Les Trois Cloches | ||
Nicolas Gombert | Missa Media Vita (Kyrie) | ||
Aaron Copland | Saturday Night Waltz (4 Dance Episodes from 'Rodeo') | ||
Johann Sebastian Bach | Fugue in G minor, BWV 861 (The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1) | ||
Nicolò Paganini | Violin Concerto No 2 in B minor, Op 7 'La campanella' (3rd mvt, Rondo) | ||
Alessandro Scarlatti | Dormi, o fulmine di guerra (La Giuditta) | ||
Johann Sebastian Bach | Prelude in G minor, BWV 861 (The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1) | ||
Olivier Messiaen | Le baiser de l'Enfant-Jésus (Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jésus) | ||
Anonymous | Concerto in E flat major for horn, two oboes and continuo | ||
John Dowland | Time stands still in gazing on her face [1603] arr. for voice and orchestra | ||
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Symphony No 1 in G minor, Op 13 'Winter Daydreams' (1st mvt, Reveries of a Winter Journey) | ||
Antonio Bazzini | La ronde des lutins, scherzo fantastique for violin and piano, Op 25 | ||
Joseph Haydn | Symphony no. 9 in C major H.1.9 | ||
Trad. | Sevillanas | ||
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Felix Mendelssohn | Song Without Words in D major, Op. 109 | |
Ludwig van Beethoven | Symphony No 6 in F Major, Op 68 'Pastoral' (2nd mvt, Szene am Bach) arr. for four hands | ||
Florence Price | Organ suite no.1 (Toccato) | ||
Marc-André Hamelin | Study No 3 after Paganini-Liszt | ||
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | String Quartet No 8 in F Major, K 168 (1st mvt) | ||
Franz Schubert | String Quartet in C Minor, D. 703 "Quartettstatz": I. Allegro assai | ||
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Matthew Martin | O Oriens | |
Meredith Monk | On Behalf of Nature (Eon) | ||
George Gershwin | Girl Crazy (Overture) | ||
Modest Mussorgsky | The Old Castle (Pictures at an Exhibition) |
Wednesday 25th November 2020
09:00
In Tune
Katharine Dain and Sam Armstrong
9 / 20 Tracks
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Music and conversation with some of the world's finest musicians.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Major, K. 40 | |
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Bob Marley | Redemption Song | |
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Francisco Guerrero | Maria Magdalene | |
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George Butterworth | The Banks of Green Willow | |
Claire Delbos | L'âme en bourgeon: I. Dors | ||
Luigi Boccherini | String Quintet No. 60 in C Major, G. 324 - "La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid" (Arr. J. Azkoul) - - mov.5: La ritirata | ||
Claude Debussy | Proses lyriques, L. 84: II. De grève | ||
Marguerite Monnot | Hymne a l'amour (orch Jerome Ducros) | ||
Claudio Monteverdi | O dolce anima mia, dunque è pur vero (from Il Terzo Libro de Madrigali) | ||
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Matthew Hindson | Maralinga (Version for Violin & Orchestra) | |
Erik Satie | Gymnopédie No 1 in D major | ||
Nicola Porpora | Nell' attendere mio bene (Polifemo) | ||
Olivier Messiaen | Poèmes pour Mi: V. L'épouse | ||
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Gareth Farr | Mondo Rondo (Arr. J. Azkoul): III. Mambo Rambo | |
Robert Schumann | String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 41 No. 2 - first mov | ||
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Turlough O'Carolan | Planxty Irwin | |
George Frideric Handel | Pensieri, voi mi tormentate (Agrippina) | ||
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Jonathan Leshnoff | Piano Concerto: IV. Finale. Fast (Live) | |
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Kilema | Tambanivolo | |
Ludwig van Beethoven | Piano Sonata in A flat major, Op 110 (1st mvt) |
Tuesday 17th November 2020
13:00
Through the Night
Symphony of a Thousand
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Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts Mahler's epic, exuberant Symphony No 8. With Jonathan Swain.
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Erik Satie | Trois morceaux en forme de poire | |
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George Gershwin | Rhapsody in Blue | |
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Samuel Barber | Agnus Dei | |
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Joseph Haydn | Sonata Partita No 10 in C major | |
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Olivier Messiaen | Quatuor pour la fin du temps for clarinet, piano, violin and cello | |
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William Walton | Partita for orchestra | |
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Giuseppe Verdi | La Forza del Destino, Overture | |
Alfred Désenclos | Prelude, Cadence and Finale | ||
Gustav Mahler | Symphony No 8 in E flat 'Symphony of a Thousand' | ||
Antonio Vivaldi | Concerto da Camera in D major RV.95 | ||
Hans Krása | Overture for chamber orchestra | ||
Arthur Butterworth | Romanza for horn and strings | ||
Einojuhani Rautavaara | Regular Sets of Elements | ||
Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev | Overture on Russian themes | ||
Franz Schubert | Fantasy for piano in C major "Wandererfantasie" | ||
Georg Philipp Telemann | Quartet in D Minor, TWV 42 | ||
George Frideric Handel | Jeptha excerpt ('Scenes of horror .. While in never-ceasing pain') | ||
George Frideric Handel | Spirit Music (Nos.1 to 4) - from "Alcina" |
09:00
Radio 3 in Concert
The CBSO at 100
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Tom McKinney marks 100 years of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
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Jean Sibelius | The Swan of Tuonela | |
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Edward Elgar | Cello Concerto | |
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Jean Sibelius | Lemminkainen's Return | |
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Benjamin Britten | Sinfonia da requiem Op.20 | |
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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka | Ruslan i Lyudmila: Overture | |
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Ludwig van Beethoven | Overture to Leonore no. 3 | |
Olivier Messiaen | Turangalila-symphonie: Final | ||
Benjamin Britten | War Requiem Op.66: Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus | ||
Edvard Grieg | Peer Gynt - incidental music Op.23: In the hall of the Mountain King | ||
Georges Bizet | Symphony in C major: Scherzo |
Monday 16th November 2020
14:00
Night Tracks
Soundtrack for night
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Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening.
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Goldfrapp | Laurel | |
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Duke Ellington | Melancholia | |
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John Dowland | Sorrow, stay | |
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Floating Points | For Marmish | |
Jorge Sánchez-Chiong | Overclockers 3 | ||
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Ad Wammes | Miroir | |
Margaret Snyder | Witchcraft | ||
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Arvo Pärt | Spiegel im Spiegel | |
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Nathan Schram | Soft | |
Brian Eno | Stedelijk | ||
Olivier Messiaen | Regard du Pere (Vingt Regards dur l'enfant Jesus) | ||
Trygve Seim | In Your Beauty (Rumi Songs) | ||
Edvard Grieg | Piano Concerto in A minor Op.16 (2nd mvt) | ||
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Wyldest | Barefoot | |
Jean de Sainte-Colombe | Concert no.41 'Le Retour' ['67 Concerts a deux violes esgales'] | ||
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Johann Sebastian Bach | Cello Suite no.6 in D Major BWV.1012 (Allemande) |
Saturday 14th November 2020
21:00
Through the Night
Fair Music from Aargau and Rediscoveries from Norway
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Aargau Philharmonic performs Schubert's 'Great' Ninth Symphony. With Jonathan Swain.
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Claude Debussy | L'Isle joyeuse | |
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Maurice Ravel | Alborada del gracioso |
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Olivier Messiaen | Theme and Variations for violin and piano | |
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Pezzo capriccioso, arr. for cello and piano | |
Hjalmar Borgstrom | Violin Concerto in G, Op 25 | ||
Trad. | Traditional Homecoming | ||
Imants Zemzaris | The Light springs | ||
Traditional Hungarian | 17th Century Dances | ||
Anton Vranicky | Cello Concerto in D minor | ||
Johann Rosenmüller | Beatus vir qui timet Dominum | ||
Werner Wehrli | Chilbizite | ||
Antonio Vivaldi | Concerto in F major (RV.442) for treble recorder | ||
Johann Schobert | Keyboard Concerto in G major | ||
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Piano Sonata in F major K.280 | ||
Lepo Sumera | Symphony No 2 (dedicated to Peeter Lilje) (1984) | ||
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Rondo for violin and orchestra in C major, K373 | |
Edvard Grieg | 6 Orchestral songs (Nos 1-5 only) (EG.177) | ||
Edvard Grieg | The Last Spring, from 'Two Elegiac Melodies, Op 34' | ||
Nicolaus Bruhns | Jauchzet dem Herren alle Welt - cantata for voice, 2 violins, [bassoon] and continuo | ||
Ernest Chausson | Pavane & Forlane from Quelques danses for piano, Op 26 (1896) | ||
Franz Schubert | 3 Songs - Liebesbotschaft, Heidenroslein & Litanei auf das Fest | ||
Oskar Lindberg | Morgonen (Morning) | ||
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Franz Schubert | Fierrabras, D 796 (Overture) | |
Oskar Morawetz | Overture on a Fairy Tale | ||
Franz Schubert | Symphony no 9 in C, D.944 ('Great') |
Sunday 1st November 2020
11:00
Words and Music
Magic Numbers
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Sule Rimi and Alibe Parsons find beauty and wisdom in digits, numerals, and counting.
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The Beatles | Revolution 9 | |
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Kate Bush | Pi |
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Philip Glass | Knee Play 1 (Einstein on the Beach) | |
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Micachu & The Shapes | Calculator | |
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Ludovico Einaudi | Numbers | |
Ludwig van Beethoven | Symphony no. 9 in D minor, Op.125 (Choral)(4th mvt: Presto) | ||
Aleksandra Vrebalov | Numbers | ||
Blue Claw Philharmonic | Ode to Joy (Sleep Baby Music Mix) | ||
Michael Nyman | Drowning by Number 3 (Drowning by Numbers) | ||
Carl Orff | Vivamus, mea Lesbia (Catulli Carmina) | ||
Olivier Messiaen | Ile de Feu II (Quatre etudes de rhythme) | ||
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Iannis Xenakis | Pithoprakta | |
Paul Lansky | Alphanumeric Sound | ||
Johann Sebastian Bach | Aria da capo (Goldberg Variations, BWV.988) | ||
Per Nørgård | Momentum - cello concerto no.2 (4th mvt: Infinity) | ||
Johann Sebastian Bach | Fugue in E flat major (St Anne), BWV.552 | ||
José Manuel López López | Calculo secreto | ||
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Cinque... Dieci... (Le Nozze di Figaro) | ||
Kurt Schwitters | Drei |
Sunday 25th October 2020
15:00
Transcribe, Transform with Vikingur Olafsson
Limits and Possibilities
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Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson explores the art of musical transcription.
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Pietro Mascagni | Intermezzo (Cavalleria Rusticana) | |
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Maurice Ravel | Miroirs - La vallee des cloches | |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy - Nutcracker | ||
Claude Debussy | La damoiselle elue, L. 62 - Prelude (excerpt) | ||
Sergey Rachmaninov | Utro (from Op. 4, No. 2) | ||
Edgar Meyer | The Big Cheese (incorporating a Fantasia by William Byrd) (excerpt) | ||
Steve Reich | Piano Phase for Two Pianos (excerpt) | ||
George Crumb | Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) - 1st movement | ||
Träd | 3 songs from the county Czik - No. 1 | ||
Gregorian chant | Introitus Lux Fulgebit (The Light Will Shine) | ||
Hanns Eisler | Eislermaterial - Ammut sparet nicht noch Muhe; Allegro assai (excerpt) | ||
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber | Sonata Representativa (Frog, hen and cock) | ||
Henryk Mikolaj Górecki | Piece in the Old Style I | ||
Olivier Messiaen | Catalogue d'Oiseaux: 6 L'alouette Lulu (the woodlark) (excerpt) |
Thursday 22nd October 2020
08:00
In Tune Mixtape
Classical music to fill half an hour
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This eclectic 30-minute mix opens with Björk and ends with film music from Dunkirk.
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Johann Sebastian Bach | Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Aria) | |
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John Dowland | Time stands still | |
Benjamin Wallfisch | Variation 15 (Dunkirk) | ||
Björk | Overture | ||
Frédéric Chopin | Waltz in D flat major, Op 64 No 1, 'Minute' | ||
Knut Nystedt | Immortal Bach (Komm, süsser Tod, BWV 478) | ||
Olivier Messiaen | Liturgie de cristal; Vocalise; Abîme des oiseaux (Quartet for the End of Time) | ||
Ralph Vaughan Williams | Tuba Concerto in F minor (2nd mvt) |
Thursday 15th October 2020
14:00
Through the Night
A Catalan piano recital
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Young pianist Albert Cano Smit performs Schumann, Ligeti and Prokofiev. With John Shea.
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Benjamin Britten | Hymn to St Cecilia |
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Scott Joplin | Gladiolus Rag | |
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Jean Coulthard | Excursion Ballet Suite | |
Jeno Hubay | Der Zephir - from 6 Blumenleben | ||
Johan Wagenaar | Frithjof's Meerfahrt | ||
Sergei Prokofiev | Piano Sonata No 7 in B flat, Op 83 | ||
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Alexander Scriabin | Two Poems, Op 32 No 1 (Andante cantabile) | |
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer | Suite No 4 in D minor Op 1 no 4 from 'Le Journal du printemps' | ||
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski | Music at Night | ||
Anonymous | Wie schon leuchet der Morgenstern [from the Lubbenauer Orgeltabulatur] | ||
Johann Sebastian Bach | Capriccio in B flat, BWV 992 | ||
Stephen Hough | Toccata (5th movement from Partita for piano) | ||
Johannes Brahms | Song of the Fates | ||
Tarquinio Merula | Folle e ben che si crede (Merula); Odi, Euterpe (Caccini) | ||
Francesco Durante | Concerto per quartetto No 6 in A major | ||
Jonel Perlea | Lullaby | ||
Trad. | 3 Bulgarian Dances | ||
Frédéric Chopin | Nocturne No 7 in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 1 | ||
Joseph Martin Kraus | Quatre Intermedes for Moliere's comedy 'Amphitryon' - Intermede IV (VB.27) | ||
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Horn Concerto No 4 in E flat, K 495 | ||
Gustav Mahler | Symphony No 1 in D major 'Titan' | ||
Nino Rota | Divertimento Concertante | ||
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Adagio and fugue for strings (K.546) in C minor | ||
György Ligeti | Etude No 15 'White on white' and 13 'L'escalier du diable' | ||
Olivier Messiaen | Le baiser de l'Enfant-Jésus (Vingt regards sur l'Enfant Jésus') | ||
Hector Berlioz | Beatrice et Benedict Overture | ||
Raquel Garcia-Tomas | My Old Gramophone #1 | ||
Robert Schumann | Kreisleriana, Op 16 |
Thursday 8th October 2020
07:00
In Tune
Khatia Buniatishvili, Olivier Latry, Dame Felicity Palmer
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Katie Derham with music and conversation with some of the world's finest musicians.
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Johann Sebastian Bach | Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring |
Edward Elgar | Sea Slumber Song (Sea Pictures) | ||
Nitin Sawhney | Movement (solo piano version) | ||
Ennio Morricone | Deborah's Theme (From "Once upon a Time in America") - arranged by Khatia Buniatishvili | ||
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Olivier Messiaen | La Nativité du Seigneur: Les Anges | |
François Couperin | Les baricades mistérieuses (Pièces de clavecin, Ordre No 6) | ||
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Philip Glass | I'm Going to Make a Cake (from "The Hours" Soundtrack) | |
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Franz Liszt | Consolations, S. 172: No. 3, Lento placido | |
Ralph Vaughan Williams | Fantasia on 'Greensleeves' [adapted R Greaves from opera 'Sir John in love'] | ||
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Georg Frideric Handel | Samson, HWV 57, Act III: Let the bright seraphim (Aria) | |
Sir Henry Rowley Bishop | Home, Sweet Home | ||
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Johann Sebastian Bach | Toccata und Fuge D-Moll, BWV 565 | |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Laudate Dominum (Vesperae solennes de confessore, K 339) | ||
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Johann Sebastian Bach | In dir ist Freude, BWV 615 | |
Joseph Haydn | The heavens are telling (The Creation) | ||
Ludwig van Beethoven | Violin Sonata in E flat major, Op.12 No.3 (3rd mvt) | ||
Augustin Barié | Symphonie pour orgue (opus 5); IV. Intermezzo | ||
Luigi Boccherini | Quinteto n 7 in mi minore Allegretto |
Friday 2nd October 2020
05:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Elena Urioste and Tom Poster at Wigmore Hall
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Live from Wigmore Hall in London. Elena Urioste and Tom Poster play Messiaen and Grieg.
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Olivier Messiaen | Theme and Variations | |
Clara Schumann | 3 Romances Op. 22 | ||
Donald Grant | Bha là eile ann (There was a different day) | ||
Edvard Grieg | Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Op. 13 | ||
Mark Simpson | Essay in Love |
Monday 28th September 2020
15:00
Through the Night
Illness and hope
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Music by composers influenced by illness in their lives. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
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Richard Strauss | Death and Transfiguration |
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Carl Nielsen | Serenata in vano | |
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Olivier Messiaen | Louange a l'Eternite de Jesus (Quatuor pour la fin du Temps) | |
François Couperin | Bruit de Guerre | ||
Nicolò Paganini | Moses fantaisie (after Rossini) | ||
Franz Schubert | Der Leiermann (Winterreise) | ||
Aaron Copland | Hoe Down (Rodeo) | ||
Franz Schubert | Octet in F (D.803) [1824] | ||
Ramona Luengen | O Lacrimosa | ||
Antonio Rosetti | Concerto for 2 horns and orchestra in E flat | ||
Georg Muffat | Toccata Octava in G | ||
Antonio Vivaldi | Flute Concerto in G minor, RV 439 ('La notte') | ||
Gioachino Rossini | The Thieving Magpie (Overture) | ||
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Robert Schumann | Piano Quartet in E flat, Op 47 (Sostenuto assai - Allegro Ma Non Troppo) | |
Benjamin Britten | Phantasy | ||
Henry Purcell | Fantasia No 1 in D minor | ||
Sergei Prokofiev | Symphony No 1 in D 'Classical' | ||
Jean Coulthard | Four Irish Songs | ||
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Flute Quartet in D, K 285 (Rondo) | ||
Domenico Scarlatti | Keyboard Sonata in B minor | ||
Johann Sebastian Bach | Ricercar a 3 from the Musical Offering, BWV 1079 | ||
Edward Elgar | Variations on an original theme "Enigma" | ||
Joseph Haydn | String Quartet in A major, Op 55 no 1 | ||
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Erik Satie | Parade [Ballet realiste] | |
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Maurice Ravel | Le Tombeau de Couperin (Forlane: Allegretto) | |
Francesco Geminiani | Concerto Grosso in G minor | ||
Miklós Kocsár | Scale, tear! (Halog, hasadj meg!) - folk prayers |
04:00
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Essential flute music, Ailish Tynan, Handel's Acis and Galatea
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Pietro Mascagni | Intermezzo (Cavalleria rusticana) | |
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Reynaldo Hahn | A Chloris |
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Giacomo Puccini | Mi chiamano Mimi (La bohème) | |
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Claudio Monteverdi | O come sei gentile | |
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William Byrd | The Woods so Wild | |
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William Walton | Johannesburg Festival Overture | |
Isaac Albéniz | Iberia (El Puerto) | ||
Jean Sibelius | Symphony no.6 in D minor, Op.104 (4th mvt) | ||
Anon. | Pakington's Pownde | ||
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Johann Sebastian Bach | Cello Suite no.1 in G major, BWV.1007 (Prelude) | |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Symphony no.39 in E flat major K.543 (1st mvt) | ||
Antonio Vivaldi | Flute Concerto in G minor "La notte" RV.439 Op.10`2 | ||
Joseph Haydn | String Quartet in B flat major, Op.76`4 'Sunrise' (2nd mvt) | ||
Arthur Sullivan | The Sun Whose Rays (The Mikado) | ||
Louise Farrenc | Symphony no.1 in C minor, Op.32 (4th mvt) | ||
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Lucy Pankhurst | Diaphanousphere | |
Errollyn Wallen | Photography (Vivace) | ||
Ludwig van Beethoven | Piano Trio in E flat major Op.1`1 (4th mvt) | ||
Frédéric Chopin | Grande Valse Brillante in E flat major, Op.18 | ||
Olivier Messiaen | Regard des Hauteurs (20 Regards sur l'enfant Jésus) | ||
George Frideric Handel | Hush, ye pretty warbling choir (Acis and Galatea) | ||
Iiro Rantala | September (My Finnish Calendar) | ||
Stephen Sondheim | Green Finch and Linnet Bird (Sweeney Todd) |
Wednesday 23rd September 2020
03:00
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: De Falla's Serenata andaluza, essential autumnal music, Wayne Marshall
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Thomas Tallis | O nata lux | |
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Maurice Ravel | Jeux d'eau |
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Manuel de Falla | Serenata andaluza | |
Gabriel Fauré | Piano Trio in D minor, Op.120 (2nd mvt) | ||
Scott Joplin | Ragtime Dance | ||
Giovanni Gabrieli | Canzona No 4 à 6; O Jesu mi dulcissime | ||
Sir George Dyson | Violin Concerto (3rd mvt) | ||
Alexander von Zemlinsky | String Quartet no.1 in A major Op.4 (4th mvt) | ||
Johan Svendsen | Carnival in Paris Op.9 | ||
An-Lun Huang | Prelude in C Major Op.5 no.1 | ||
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Johannes Ockeghem | Deo Gratias | |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Deh, vieni alla finestra (Don Giovanni) | ||
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Dmitry Shostakovich | Festive Overture, Op.96 | |
Louise Farrenc | Sextet in C minor Op.40 (1st mvt) | ||
Xaver Scharwenka | Spanish Serenade | ||
Enrique Granados | Quejas o la Maja y el Ruiseñor (Goyescas) | ||
Eugène Ysaÿe | Solo Violin Sonata no.5, Op.27`5 'L'Aurore' (1st mvt) | ||
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Felix Mendelssohn | A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.61 (Overture, Op.21) | |
Olivier Messiaen | Joie Du Sang Des Etoiles (Turangalila Symphony) | ||
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Francisco Tárrega | Recuerdos de la Alhambra | |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | The Nutcracker (Pas de deux) | ||
François-Joseph Gossec | Symphonie in 17 parts (4th mvt) | ||
Richard Strauss | 4 Last Songs (September) | ||
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Franz Schubert | String Trio in B flat major D.471 | |
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Robert Schumann | Mondnacht, Op.39 no.5 |
Wednesday 16th September 2020
11:00
Radio 3 in Concert
Edinburgh International Festival: Mozart and Messiaen
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Great archive recordings from the Edinburgh Festival of Charles Mackerras and Ilan Volkov.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Serenade in Bb (Gran Partita) | ||
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Thomas Adès | Tevot | |
Olivier Messiaen | Eclairs sur l'au-dela | ||
Laura Jurd | Study #1 |
Tuesday 15th September 2020
13:00
Through the Night
Haydn the versatile
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Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Haydn's Missa Sancti Nicolai. With Catriona Young.
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Alexander Borodin | In the steppes of central Asia |
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Aaron Copland | Danzon Cubano | |
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Hector Berlioz | Roman Carnival overture, Op 9 | |
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Joseph Haydn | Insanae et vanae curae | |
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Ralph Vaughan Williams | Toward the Unknown Region | |
Igor Stravinsky | 8 Instrumental miniatures | ||
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Richard Strauss | Don Juan, Op 20 | |
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Johann Sebastian Bach | Prelude (Fantasia) in A minor, BWV 922 | |
Stevan Mokranjac | The Orthodox Liturgy | ||
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Quartet for strings (K. 421) in D minor | ||
Joseph Haydn | Mass No 6 in G 'Missa Sancti Nicolai' | ||
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Rondo for horn and orchestra in E flat, K 371 | |
Antonio Rosetti | Grande Symphonie in D major | ||
Joseph Haydn | String Quartet in C, Op 54 No 2 (1st and 2nd mvt) | ||
Antonio Vivaldi | Concerto in D minor, RV 128 | ||
Joseph Haydn | String Quartet in C, Op 54 No 2 (final mvt) | ||
Barbara Strozzi | Lagrime mie (Diporti di Euterpe) | ||
Joseph Haydn | Symphony No 1 in D | ||
Béla Bartók | Hungarian Sketches | ||
Joseph Haydn | Symphony No 92 'Oxford' | ||
Frédéric Chopin | Piano concerto No 2 in F minor | ||
Leonard Bernstein | Candide (Overture) | ||
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Graeme Koehne | Powerhouse - rhumba for orchestra | |
Olivier Messiaen | Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus (No 5, Quatuor pour la fin du temps) |
03:00
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Kathryn Rudge, Finzi's Proud Songsters, Essential Piano Studies
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Nico Muhly | Senex puerum portabat | |
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Johannes Brahms | Hungarian Dance no.1 in G minor | |
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Jean Mouton | Domine, salvum fac regem | |
Frédéric Chopin | Waltz in C sharp minor, Op.64 no.2 | ||
Olivier Messiaen | Quartet for the End of Time (Louange a l'immortalite de Jesus) | ||
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Gabriel Pierné | Canzonetta Op.19 | |
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Richard Strauss | 5 Lieder, Op.41 Wiegenlied) | |
Alison Berry | Caged Bird | ||
Gerald Finzi | Proud Songsters (Earth and Air and Rain Op.15) | ||
Samuel Akpabot | Scenes from Nigeria (Pastorale) | ||
Antonio Vivaldi | Violin Concerto in D major RV.208 'Il Grosso Mogul' | ||
Gioachino Rossini | The Thieving Magpie (Overture) | ||
Sergey Rachmaninov | Etudes-tableaux Op.33 (nos. 2, 3 & 6) | ||
Benjamin Britten | Proud songsters (Winter Words) | ||
Cecilia McDowall | Church Bells Beyond the Stars | ||
Domenico Scarlatti | Sonata in A minor Kk.109 | ||
John Playford | Wallom Green (English Dancing Master) | ||
Edward Elgar | Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85 (1st and 2nd mvts) | ||
Louise Farrenc | Symphony no.2 in D major (2nd mvt) | ||
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Elizabeth Maconchy | Ophelia's Song | |
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Ludwig van Beethoven | Symphony no.5 in C minor Op.67 (1st mvt) | |
Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco | Concerto a piu istrumenti in D major Op.5`6 | ||
Franz Schubert | String Quartet in A minor D.804 'Rosamunde' (4th mvt) | ||
Ólafur Arnalds | Reminiscence |
Thursday 20th August 2020
13:00
BBC Proms
Late Escapes, Paul Hillier's Theatre of Voices perform Stockhausen's Stimmung
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Theatre of Voices perform Stockhausen?s Stimmung for 'six singers and six microphones'.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen | Stimmung | |
Olivier Messiaen | Le courlis cendre (Catalogue d'oiseaux) |