Alexander's Feast from the 2025 BBC Proms

From the 2025 BBC Proms, soloists Hilary Cronin, Hugh Cutting and Stuart Jackson join the Irish Baroque Orchestra and Chorus and conductor Peter Whelan in Handel's Alexander's Feast. John Shea presents.

12:31 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Newburgh Hamilton (librettist)
Alexander's Feast, ode with music after Dryden, HWV 75
Hilary Cronin (soprano), Hugh Cutting (counter tenor), Stuart Jackson (tenor), Irish Baroque Chorus, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Peter Whelan (conductor)

02:11 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Hallelujah Chorus, from part 2 of 'Messiah'
Hilary Cronin (soprano), Hugh Cutting (counter tenor), Stuart Jackson (tenor), Irish Baroque Chorus, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Peter Whelan (conductor)

02:15 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
In den angenehmen Buschen (HWV.209) - German aria No 8
Hélène Plouffe (violin), Louise Pellerin (oboe), Dom André Laberge (organ)

02:19 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Trio sonata for 2 violins & bc HWV.388 in B flat major Op 2 no 3
Musica Alta Ripa

02:31 AM
Adolf Fredrik Lindblad (1801-1878)
String Quartet no 3 in C major
Yggdrasil String Quartet

03:07 AM
Ludwig Schuncke (1810-1834)
Grande Sonata for piano in G minor (dedicated to Robert Schumann), Op 3
Sylviane Deferne (piano)

03:30 AM
Pierre Max Dubois (1930-1995)
Quartet for flutes
Valentinas Kazlauskas (flute), Lina Baublyté (flute), Albertas Stupakas (flute), Giedrius Gelgotas (flute)

03:38 AM
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Siegfrieds Trauermarsch - from 'Gotterdammerung'
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Lovro von Matačić (conductor)

03:46 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Komm Jesu, komm, BWV 229 - motet
Voces Suaves, Cafebaum

03:54 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (no 6 from Lyric pieces, Op 65)
Valerie Tryon (piano)

04:02 AM
Ludwik Grossman (1835-1915)
Csardas from the comic opera Duch wojewody (The Ghost of Voyvode) (1875)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Miroslaw Blaszczyk (conductor)

04:12 AM
Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
Pavane & Forlane from Quelques danses for piano, Op 26
Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano)

04:21 AM
Francesco Durante (1684-1755)
Concerto per quartetto for strings no 5 in A major
Concerto Köln

04:31 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Overture in C minor for strings, D.8
Korean Chamber Orchestra

04:40 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Ballade No 2 in F major, Op 38
Zbigniew Raubo (piano)

04:48 AM
Maxim Berezovsky (1745-1777)
Do not reject me (Ps.70)
Seven Saints Chamber Choir, Dimitar Grigorov (conductor)

04:57 AM
Alexander Albrecht (1885-1958)
Quintet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon
Pavol Kovac (piano), Bratislava Wind Quintet

05:06 AM
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Partite Sopra Follia
Enrico Baiano (harpsichord)

05:14 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
12 Variations on 'Ein Madchen oder Weibchen' for cello and piano, Op 66
Miklós Perényi (cello), Dezső Ránki (piano)

05:23 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor, Op 1
Harald Aadland (violin), Nora Taksdal (viola), Audun Sandvik (cello), Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)

05:51 AM
Alfonso Ferrabosco (1543-1588)
Pavan and Fantasie for lute
Nigel North (lute)

05:59 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony No 38 in D major, K504, 'Prague'
Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Oksana Lyniv (conductor)