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Radio 3,07 Aug 2026,360 mins

Choral music from Sweden

Through the Night

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The Swedish Radio Choir sings a carefully selected programme of sacred and secular music, spanning Palestrina to Ligeti. Penny Gore presents. 12:31 AM Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594) Excerpt from 'Missa Papae Marcelli' Swedish Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš (conductor) 12:35 AM August Söderman (1832-1876) Agnus Dei Swedish Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš (conductor) 12:37 AM Alice Tegnér (1864-1943) Ave Maria Swedish Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš (conductor) 12:41 AM Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020) Agnus Dei Swedish Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš (conductor) 12:49 AM Alma Mahler (1879-1964), Clytus Gottwald (arranger) Two songs from 'Drei frühe Lieder' Swedish Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš (conductor) 12:55 AM Frank Martin (1890-1974) Sanctus, from 'Mass for Double Choir' Swedish Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš (conductor) 01:00 AM Arne Mellnäs (1933-2002) Laude: Il cantico di frate sole Swedish Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš (conductor) 01:09 AM György Ligeti (1923-2006), Friedrich Hölderlin (lyricist) Drei Phantasien Swedish Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš (conductor) 01:21 AM Hans Gefors (b.1952), D. H. Lawrence (lyricist) Canto 1, from 'Whales weep not!' Swedish Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš (conductor) 01:29 AM Francis Poulenc (1899-1963),Paul Éluard (1895-1952) Liberté, from 'Figure humaine' Swedish Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš (conductor) 01:34 AM Folke Rabe (1935-2017) Rondes (encore) Swedish Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš (conductor) 01:39 AM Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) Canzon quinta à 4, Canto, Alto, Tenor Bass for cornet Musica Fiata Köln, Roland Wilson (director) 01:43 AM Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 43 Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor) 02:31 AM Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) Quintet in D major, Op 11, No 6 for flute, 2 violins, cello Musica Petropolitana 02:48 AM Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) Nights in the Gardens of Spain Elena Bashkirova (piano), Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice, Lawrence Foster (conductor) 03:11 AM Grace Williams (1906-1977) Sea Sketches Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor) 03:30 AM Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) Spem in Alium, for 40 voices BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor) 03:38 AM Genevieve Calame (1946-1993) Sur la margelle du monde Bienne Symphony Orchestra, Franco Trinca (conductor) 03:49 AM Gustav Holst (1874-1934), Claude Rippas (arranger) St Paul's Suite, Op 29 No 2 Hexagon Ensemble 04:01 AM Robert Schumann (1810-1856) 3 Fantasy Pieces, Op 73 Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), Simon Smith (piano) 04:13 AM Richard Wagner (1813-1883) Prelude (Act 1 'Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg') BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek (conductor) 04:24 AM Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677) 'L'Eraclito amoroso' for Soprano and continuo Musica Fiorita, Susanne Ryden (soprano), Rebeka Rusó (viola da gamba), Rafael Bonavita (theorbo), Daniela Dolci (harpsichord), Daniela Dolci (director) 04:31 AM Elfrida Andrée (1841-1929) Concert Overture in D major BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Chloé van Soeterstèd (conductor) 04:43 AM Dobrinka Tabakova (b.1980) Pirin for viola Maxim Rysanov (viola) 04:51 AM Henry Purcell (1659-1695) Let mine eyes run down with tears, Z.24 Grace Davidson (soprano), Aleksandra Lewandowska (soprano), Damien Guillon (counter tenor), Samuel Boden (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe (director) 05:00 AM Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) Slavonic Dance no 10 in E minor, Op 72 No 2 Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Juanjo Mena (conductor) 05:06 AM Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Bassoon Concerto in E minor, RV.484 Aleksander Radosavljevič (bassoon), RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Günter Pichler (conductor) 05:18 AM Nikita Koshkin (b.1956) The Fall of Birds Goran Listes (guitar) 05:27 AM Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Variations on a theme by Frank Bridge, Op 10 Royal Academy Soloists, Clio Gould (director) 05:53 AM Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Piano Sonata No 15 in C major, D.840 Alfred Brendel (piano) 06:14 AM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Horn concerto No 3 in E flat major, K.447 James Sommerville (horn), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)

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  1. Track
    Artist
  2. 1.
    Excerpt from 'Missa Papae Marcelli'
    Excerpt from 'Missa Papae Marcelli'
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
  3. 2.
    Agnus Dei
    Agnus Dei
    August Söderman
  4. 3.
    Ave Maria
    Ave Maria
    Alice Tegnér