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Radio 3,05 Feb 2026,360 mins

Bach in Madrid

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An all-Bach programme from Japanese baroque violinist Hiro Kurosaki and Spanish harpsichordist Ignacio Prego opened the Encuentro Silva de Sirenas Festival [FESS Madrid] with a monograph dedicated to the music for both instruments by Johann Sebastian Bach, under the title All Bach. The concert featured two of the Six sonatas for violin and harpsichord and two solo works, for violin and harpsichord respectively. Jonathan Swain presents. 12:31 AM Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Violin Sonata in B minor, BWV.1014 Hiro Kurosaki (baroque violin), Ignacio Prego (harpsichord) 12:43 AM Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Partita no 3 in E major, BWV.1006 Hiro Kurosaki (baroque violin) 12:58 AM Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) French Suite no 4 in E flat major, BWV.815 Ignacio Prego (harpsichord) 01:12 AM Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Violin Sonata no 6 in G major, BWV.1019 Hiro Kurosaki (baroque violin), Ignacio Prego (harpsichord) 01:29 AM Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Adagio from Violin Sonata in G major, BWV.1021 Hiro Kurosaki (baroque violin), Ignacio Prego (harpsichord) 01:33 AM Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), orch. Arnold Schoenberg Prelude and fugue in E flat major BWV.552 (St Anne) Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart (conductor) 01:50 AM Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Partita no 4 in D major, BWV.828 Schaghajegh Nosrati (piano) 02:22 AM Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817-1869) Bach: Liebster Jesu wir sind hier, BWV 731 and Lefébure-Wély: Sortie in G minor Antonio García (organ) 02:31 AM Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) Sheherazade, Op 35 Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Cristian Mǎcelaru (conductor) 03:16 AM Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), arr. Mauricio Sotelo Sonata in F minor, K.184; Interludio – Alegrías; Sonata in G minor, K.450 Chen Halevi (clarinet), Daniel Borovitzky (piano), Gringolts Quartet, Agustin Diassera (percussion) 03:29 AM Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924) Nocturne no 1 in E flat minor, Op 33 no 1 Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) 03:38 AM Gabriel Charpentier (1925-2019) Mass I Tudor Singers of Montréal, Patrick Wedd (artistic director) 03:47 AM Pieter Hellendaal (1721-1799) Concerto grosso for strings and continuo in F major, Op 3 no 3 Combattimento Consort Amsterdam 03:58 AM Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) Morrò, ma prima in grazia, Amelia's aria from 'Un Ballo in maschera' Birgitte Christensen (soprano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Petr Popelka (conductor) 04:03 AM Hilda Sehested (1858-1936) Tre Fantasistykker (3 Fantasy pieces) Nina Reintoft (cello), Malene Thastum (piano) 04:14 AM Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Rapsodie espagnole BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor) 04:31 AM Philip Sparke (b.1951) Pantomime for Euphonium in B major Valerian Alfaré (euphonium), Edward Cervenka (piano) 04:37 AM John Field (1782-1837) Andante inédit in E flat major Marc-André Hamelin (piano) 04:44 AM Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) The Four Seasons - Summer Davide Monti (violin), Il Tempio Armonico 04:55 AM Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927) Four Stockholmsdikter (4 Stockholm poems) vers. for voice & piano, Op 38 Karl-Magnus Fredriksson (baritone), Stefan Nilsson (piano) 05:06 AM Blagoje Bersa (1873-1934) Suncana Polja Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazushi Ono (conductor) 05:23 AM Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) String Quartet in D minor, Op 76 no 2 'Fifths' Signum Quartet 05:45 AM Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Fantasia for piano, chorus and orchestra in C minor, Op 80 Anton Kuerti (piano), Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor) 06:04 AM George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Suite no 2 in F major, HWV.427 (1720) Christian Ihle Hadland (piano) 06:13 AM Diego Ortiz (c.1510-1570), Pierre Regnault Sandrin (c.1490-c.1561) 3 pieces: La Spagna, Doulce Memoire & Recercada Trio Montparnasse 06:20 AM Gheorghi Arnaoudov (b.1957) Laus Solis, for orchestra Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Milen Nachev (conductor)

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  1. Track
    Artist
  2. 1.
    Violin Sonata in B minor, BWV.1014
    Violin Sonata in B minor, BWV.1014
    Johann Sebastian Bach
  3. 2.
    Partita no 3 in E major, BWV.1006
    Partita no 3 in E major, BWV.1006
    Johann Sebastian Bach
  4. 3.
    French Suite no 4 in E flat major, BWV.815
    French Suite no 4 in E flat major, BWV.815
    Johann Sebastian Bach