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Radio 3,28 Feb 2026,360 mins
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective: Schumann, Holloway and Brahms
Through the NightAvailable for 29 days
Robin Holloway's new piano quartet receives its first London outing in this concert from Wigmore Hall. It's followed by Brahms' rich and ever-changing 1st Piano Quartet. John Shea presents. 12:31 AM Clara Schumann (1819-1896), arr. Tom Poster Ihr Bildnis, Op 13 no 1 Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective 12:33 AM Robin Holloway (b.1943) Piano Quartet, Op 143 Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective 12:49 AM Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Piano Quartet no 1 in G minor, Op 25 Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective 01:28 AM Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690-1749) Bist du bei mir - aria for voice and continuo Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord) 01:32 AM Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Symphony no 5 in C minor, Op 67 Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Pietari Inkinen (conductor) 02:08 AM Joseph Rheinberger (1839-1901) Horn Sonata in E flat major, Op 178 Martin Van der Merwe (horn), Huib Christiaanse (piano) 02:31 AM Henry Purcell (1659-1695) Timon of Athens, the man-hater - incidental music, Z.632 Lynne Dawson (soprano), Gillian Fisher (soprano), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Paul Elliott (tenor), Michael George (bass), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) 02:52 AM Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943) Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op 42 Duncan Gifford (piano) 03:13 AM Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Macbeth, Op 23 BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor) 03:32 AM Nicolaus Bruhns (1665-1697) De Profundis Max von Egmond (bass), Ricercar Consort 03:45 AM Judith Weir (1954-) String quartet Silesian Quartet 03:57 AM Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Sopranino Recorder Concerto in C major RV.444 Michael Schneider (recorder), Camerata Köln 04:07 AM Franz Schubert (1797-1828), orch. Anton Webern 6 Deutsche Tänze, D820 Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Justin Brown (conductor) 04:16 AM Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) Nocturne no 4 in E flat major, Op 36 Stéphane Lemelin (piano) 04:23 AM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) - Overture, K.620 BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) 04:31 AM Juriaan Andriessen (1925-1996) Sonnet No.43 Netherlands Chamber Choir, Uwe Gronostay (conductor) 04:38 AM Anton Arensky (1861-1906), arr. Vladimir Kriukov Romance no.3: Ne zazhigay ognya ('Do not kindle the fires') Hertz Trio 04:41 AM Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) Three Rag caprices, Op 78 CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Daniel Swift (conductor) 04:48 AM Dobrinka Tabakova (b.1980) Pirin for viola Maxim Rysanov (viola) 04:57 AM Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) Alma Redemptoris Mater & Ave Maria, O auctrix vite Sequentia, Elizabeth Gaver (medieval fiddle), Elisabetta de Mircovich (medieval fiddle) 05:08 AM Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) Symphony for strings in B flat major, Wq.182 no 2 Barbara Jane Gilby (violin), Barbara Jane Gilby (director), Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players, Geoffrey Lancaster (harpsichord) 05:18 AM Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Sonata for organ in A major, Op 65 no 3 Martti Miettinen (organ) 05:29 AM Johann Halvorsen (1864-1935) Symphony no.2 in D minor 'Fatum' Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Josep Caballé-Domenech (conductor) 06:03 AM Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Percy Bysshe Shelley (author), Alfred, Lord Tennyson (author), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (author), William Wordsworth (author), Thomas Middleton (author), Wilfred Owen (author), John Keats (author), William Shakespeare (author) Nocturne for tenor, 7 instruments and string orchestra, Op 60 Benjamin Butterfield (tenor), Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Simon Streatfield (conductor)
Programme WebsiteTracklist
- TrackArtist
- 1.Ihr Bildnis Op. 13 No. 1Ihr Bildnis Op. 13 No. 1Clara Schumann
- 2.Piano Quartet, Op. 143Piano Quartet, Op. 143Robin Holloway
- 3.Piano Quartet no 1 in G minor, Op 25Piano Quartet no 1 in G minor, Op 25Johannes Brahms