20 years of the Amaryllis Quartet

The Amaryllis Quartet has been performing in major concert halls from Hamburg to Tokyo for 20 years. In this birthday concert at Solothurn in Switzerland, chamber music classics by Beethoven and Brahms are performed alongside a new work by the Swiss oboist, composer and conductor Heinz Holliger. John Shea presents.

12:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Quartet no 5 in A major, Op 18 no 5
Amaryllis Quartett

01:00 AM
Heinz Holliger (b.1939)
nicht Ichts – nicht Nichts, 10 Monodisticha after Angelus Silesius
Amaryllis Quartett

01:19 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
String Quintet no 2 in G major, Op 111
Amaryllis Quartett, Lena Eckels (viola)

01:49 AM
Heinz Holliger (b.1939)
(S)irató for Orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer (conductor)

02:05 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Oboe Concerto in C major, K.285d/314a
Heinz Holliger (oboe), ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (conductor)

02:26 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), arr. Glenn Gould
Cadenza for Piano Concerto no 1 in C major, Op 15
Lukas Geniušas (piano)

02:31 AM
Francesco Corteccia (1502-1571)
Musica della commedia di Francesco Corteccia recitata al secondo convito
Ensemble Weser-Renaissance Bremen, Manfred Cordes (conductor)

02:49 AM
Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957)
Sommernacht (Summer Night): pastoral intermezzo for string orchestra, Op 58
Camerata Bern

03:00 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Violin Sonata in E flat major, Op 18
Minami Yoshida (violin), Jean Desmarais (piano)

03:28 AM
Mirko Krajči (b.1968)
Four Dances from the ballet 'Don Juan' (2007)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mirko Krajči (conductor)

03:36 AM
Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773)
Trio Sonata in E flat major
Atrium Musicium Chamber Ensemble

03:44 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
2 chorale-preludes on 'Herzlich tut mich verlangen', Op 122 nos 9 and 10
Jan Bokszczanin (organ)

03:50 AM
Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)
Piano Sonata in B minor, Op 40 no 2
Beatrice Rana (piano)

04:08 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Première rapsodie arr. for clarinet and orchestra
Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

04:16 AM
Annibale Gregori (?-c.1633)
Ciaccona a 2 soprani, from 'Ariosi concenti, Op 9'
Andrea Inghisciano (cornet), Gawain Glenton (cornet), Giulia Genini (soloist), Guido Morini (harpsichord), María González (organ)

04:22 AM
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Suite for chamber orchestra (1946)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)

04:31 AM
John Wilbye (1574-1638)
Draw on sweet night for 6 voices (1609)
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (director)

04:36 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), transc. Zóltan Kocsis
Pavane pour une infante defunte
Zsolt Szatmári (clarinet), Zóltan Kocsis (piano)

04:42 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)

04:53 AM
Roger Quilter (1877-1953)
7 Elizabethan Lyrics, Op 12
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo soprano), James Baillieu (piano)

05:07 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Meeresstille und gluckliche Fahrt - overture, Op 27
Orchestre National de France, Riccardo Muti (conductor)

05:21 AM
Heinz Holliger (b.1939)
From 5 Little pieces for solo oboe: nos 2, 4 & 5
Vera Flurina Gassmann (oboe)

05:26 AM
Erkki Melartin (1875-1937)
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 60
John Storgårds (violin), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu (conductor)

05:55 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Piano Sonata no 3 in B minor, Op 58
Jakub Kuszlik (piano)

06:23 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Romance for viola and piano
Steven Dann (viola), Bruce Vogt (piano)