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Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Borodin from Athens

A concert given on World Music Day 2024, as part of the Athens Epidaurus Festival, featuring Chopin's Second Piano Concerto performed by 13 year old Russian pianist Elisey Mysin.

A concert given on World Music Day in 2024, as part of the Athens Epidaurus Festival, featuring Chopin's Second Piano Concerto performed by 13 year old Russian pianist Elisey Mysin, alongside Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet fantasy overture and Borodin's Polovtsian Dances. John Shea presents.

12:31 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Piano Concerto no 2 in F minor, Op 21
Elisey Mysin (piano), ERT National Symphony Orchestra, Michalis Economou (conductor)

01:01 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Prelude in G sharp minor, Op 32 no 12
Elisey Mysin (piano)

01:04 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Lilacs, Op 21 no 5
Elisey Mysin (piano)

01:07 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Romeo and Juliet, fantasy overture after Shakespeare
ERT National Symphony Orchestra, Michalis Economou (conductor)

01:28 AM
Alexander Borodin (1833-1887), orch. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Polovtsian Dances, from 'Prince Igor' (original version with chorus)
ERT National Symphony Choir, Athens Mixed Municipal Choir, ERT National Symphony Orchestra, Michalis Economou (conductor)

01:41 AM
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Francesco Maria Piave (librettist)
Surta è la Notte (Recitative and aria: Surta è la Notte .... Ernani, Ernani)
Maria Callas (soprano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nicola Rescigno (conductor)

01:48 AM
John Foulds (1880-1939)
Isles of Greece, Op 48 no 2
91Èȱ¬ Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)

01:53 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
12 Studies, Op 25
Daniil Trifonov (piano)

02:23 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Andante from Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19
Sol Gabetta (cello), Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

02:31 AM
Henryk Gorecki (1933-2010)
String Quartet no 3, Op 67 ('...songs are sung')
Royal String Quartet

03:26 AM
Vic Nees (1936-2013)
De profundis clamavi (Psalm 130)
Polish Radio Choir, Wlodzimierz Siedlik (conductor)

03:29 AM
Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
In memoriam - overture in C major
91Èȱ¬ Philharmonic, Richard Hickox (conductor)

03:41 AM
Unico Wilhelm Van Wassenaer (1692-1766)
Concerto No.5 in F minor (from Sei Concerti Armonici 1740)
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Jan Willem de Vriend (conductor)

03:52 AM
Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919)
I Pagliacci – Prologue
Allan Monk (baritone), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)

03:57 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
3 Keyboard Sonatas (Kk.443; Kk.208; Kk.29)
Claire Huangci (piano)

04:08 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Fantasiestücke for clarinet (violin or cello) and piano, Op 73
Claudio Bohorquez (cello), Marcus Groh (piano)

04:19 AM
Vatroslav Lisinski (1819-1854)
Vecer (Evening) - orchestral idyll
Croatian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra, Enrico Dindo (conductor)

04:26 AM
Improvisation
Improvisation on 'Guardame las vacas'
Labyrinto

04:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Fugue BWV.542 'Great' (orig. for organ)
Guitar Trek

04:38 AM
Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613)
Ave dulcissima Maria
Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

04:45 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Coriolan - overture, Op 62
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Mark Taddei (conductor)

04:54 AM
Joseph Lauber (1864-1952)
Sonata Fantasia in una parte for flute & piano, Op 50
Marianne Keller Stucki (flute), Agathe Rytz-Jaggi (piano)

05:08 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Piano Sonata in D major, Hob.XVI.33
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)

05:25 AM
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Concerto gregoriano
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne, Stanislav Kochanovsky (conductor)

05:52 AM
Juan Crisostomo Arriaga (1806-1826)
Stabat Mater
Grieg Academy Choir, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Juanjo Mena (conductor)

06:00 AM
Antonio Soler (1729-1783)
Four Keyboard Sonatas (Nos 87, 84, 24 & 88)
Christian Zacharias (piano)

06:21 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Evening in the Mountains, Op 68 No 4; At the cradle, Op 68 No 5
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)

Release date:

6 hours

On radio

Sat 12 Apr 2025 00:30

Broadcast

  • Sat 12 Apr 2025 00:30

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