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Verdi Requiem

Han-Na Chang conducts the Oslo Philharmonic and its choir in this music full of great contrasts and powerful emotions. John Shea presents.

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 great 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 (1602-1631)
2 Madrigals by Monteverdi and a Sonata a 3 by Dario Castello:
Io son pur vezzosetta pastorella (from Monteverdi's Libro VII de madrigali, SV143 - Venice 1619); Augellin in che la voce al canto spieghi (from Monteverdi's Libro VII de madrigali, SV143 - Venice 1619); Sonata Decima a 3 (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
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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6 hours

On radio

Mon 13 Jan 2025 00:30

Broadcast

  • Mon 13 Jan 2025 00:30

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