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Radio 3,03 Jan 2026,360 mins

Iberian music from the Ricercar Consort

Through the Night

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Francisco Correa de Arauxo was one of the most innovative organists and composers of the Iberian Baroque. His work, written exclusively for keyboard, stands out for its rhythmic complexity, visionary style, and fascinating ornamentation. Philippe Pierlot explores Correa de Arauxo’s sonic universe interpreted by his consort of viols. Jonathan Swain presents. 12:31 AM Francisco Correa de Arauxo (c. 1584-1654) Tiento de primero tono, FO 1 12:36 AM Sebastián Aguilera de Heredia (c.1565-1627) Salve de primero tono por delasolre 12:39 AM Antonio de Cabezón (1510-1566) Diferencias sobre el canto llano del cavallero; ...la Gallarda Milanese 12:44 AM Francisco Correa de Arauxo (c. 1584-1654) Tiento tercero de sexto tono, sobre la Batalla de Morales, FO 23 12:51 AM Juan Bautista José Cabanilles (1644-1712) Pasacalles de primero tono 12:53 AM Francisco Correa de Arauxo (c. 1584-1654) Segundo tiento de cuarto tono por elami a modo de cancion, FO 16 12:58 AM Tiento de quarto tono, FO 15 01:03 AM Tiento de medio registro de tiple de decimo tono, FO 36 01:08 AM Juan Bautista José Cabanilles (1644-1712) Folías primero tono, WSC 152 01:13 AM Francisco Correa de Arauxo (c. 1584-1654) Quarto tiento de quarto tono, FO 18 01:19 AM Tres glosas sobre el canto llano de la Immaculada Concepcion, FO 69 01:22 AM Tiento de quinto tono, FO 5 01:27 AM Tarquinio Merula (1595-1665) La Monteverde Ricercar Consort, Myriam Rignol (tenor viol), Clémence Schiltz (bass viol), Lucile Boulanger (bass viol), Philippe Pierlot (conductor) 01:30 AM Juan Bautista José Cabanilles (1644-1712) Corrente Italiana Joan Boronat Sanz (harpsichord) 01:36 AM Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Vespro della Beata Vergine (excerpts) Elisabetta Tiso (soprano), Monica Piccinini (soprano), Lia Serafini (soprano), Carlos Mena (counter tenor), Lambert Climent (tenor), Lluís Vilamajó (tenor), Francesc Garrigosa (tenor), Furio Zanasi (baritone), Antonio Abete (bass), Daniele Carnovich (bass), Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall (conductor), La Capella Reial de Catalunya 01:55 AM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Symphony no 41 in C major, K.551 'Jupiter' Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, Michal Klauza (conductor) 02:31 AM Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Piano Sonata no 18 in E flat major, Op 31 no 3 Zhang Zuo (piano) 02:53 AM Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Agon - ballet BBC Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson (conductor) 03:17 AM Mirko Krajči (b.1968) Pains and Hopes (Dolore e speranze) Mucha Quartet 03:31 AM Erik Satie (1866-1925), orch. Claude Debussy Gymnopédies no 3 and no 1 Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice, Alexander Humala (conductor) 03:37 AM Clara Schumann (1819-1896) Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann for piano in F sharp minor, Op 20 Angela Cheng (piano) 03:47 AM Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) O clarissima Mater (respond) Rondellus 03:56 AM Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Concerto in G minor 'per l'Orchestra di Dresda' Cappella Coloniensis, Hans-Martin Linde (conductor) 04:06 AM Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710) Xácaras and Canarios (Instrucción de música sobre la guitara española" ) Eduardo Egüez (guitar) 04:15 AM Daniel Auber (1782-1871) Bolero - Ballet music no 2 from La Muette de Portici (Masaniello) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenárd (conductor) 04:22 AM Nicola Matteis (c. 1650-after 1713), arr. Lea Sobbe Diverse bizzarie sopra la vecchia sarabanda o pur ciaccona Lea Sobbe (recorder), Halldór Bjarki Arnarson (harpsichord) 04:31 AM Philippe Verdelot (1475-1552) Italia Mia Banchieri Singers, Dénes Szabó (conductor) 04:36 AM Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Contrapunctus 1 and 2 from 'Die Kunst der Fuge' ('The Art of Fugue') Young Danish String Quartet 04:42 AM Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Lemminkainen's Return (Lemminkainen Suite, Op 22) BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) 04:49 AM Arvo Pärt (b.1935) Fratres Petr Nouzovský (cello), Yukie Ichimura (piano) 05:02 AM Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729-1774) Stabat Mater Capella Nova Graz, Unknown (continuo), Otto Kargl (conductor) 05:15 AM Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) Bassoon Concerto in F major, Op 75 Juhani Tapaninen (bassoon), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) 05:33 AM Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) String Quartet no 2 in A minor, Op 13 Pacific Quartet Vienna 06:05 AM Francesco Scarlatti (1666-after 1741) Concerto Grosso no 4 in E minor Chiave d'Arco Baroque Orchestra, Sigiswald Kuijken (director) 06:11 AM Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) Five pieces from "6 kurze Stucke zur Pflege" (1923) Valerie Tryon (piano)

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  1. Track
    Artist
  2. 1.
    Tiento de primero tono, FO 1
    Tiento de primero tono, FO 1
    Francisco Correa de Arauxo
  3. 2.
    Salve de primero tono por delasolre
    Salve de primero tono por delasolre
    Sebastián Aguilera de Heredia
  4. 3.
    Diferencias sobre el canto llano del cavallero; ...la Gallarda Milanese
    Diferencias sobre el canto llano del cavallero; ...la Gallarda Milanese
    Antonio de Cabezón