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Handel's Esther - the first English oratorio

Solomon's Knot perform Handel's oratorio Esther at the 2024 Saar International Music Festival in the setting of the 14th-century Basilica of St. Wendelin.

Solomon's Knot perform Handel's oratorio Esther at the 2024 Saar International Music Festival. Esther's story of persecution, hardship and divine rescue is brought to life in the late gothic Basilica of St. Wendelin from the 14th century. Jonathan Swain presents.

12:31 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Esther Act 1
Zo毛 Brookshow (soprano), Xavier Hetherington (tenor), Joseph Doody (tenor), Alex Ashworth (bass), David de Winter (tenor), Thomas Herford (tenor), Clare Lloyd-Griffiths (soprano), Kate Symonds Joy (mezzo soprano), James Hall (tenor), Jonathan Sells (bass), Solomon's Knot, Jonathan Sells (director)

01:09 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Esther Act 2
Zo毛 Brookshaw (soprano), Xavier Hetherington (tenor), Joseph Doody (tenor), Alex Ashworth (bass), David de Winter (tenor), Thomas Herford (tenor), Clare Lloyd-Griffiths (soprano), Kate Symonds Joy (mezzo soprano), James Hall (tenor), Jonathan Sells (bass), Solomon's Knot, Jonathan Sells (director)

01:37 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Esther Act 3
Zo毛 Brookshow (soprano), Xavier Hetherington (tenor), Joseph Doody (tenor), Alex Ashworth (bass), David de Winter (tenor), Thomas Herford (tenor), Clare Lloyd-Griffiths (soprano), Kate Symonds Joy (mezzo soprano), James Hall (tenor), Jonathan Sells (bass), Solomon's Knot, Jonathan Sells (director)

02:12 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Aria with Variations, HWV 430 'Harmonious Blacksmith'
Marian Pivka (piano)

02:18 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Allegro vivace, 1st movement from Symphony no 4 in A major, Op 90 'Italian'
WDR Radio Orchestra, Rasmus Baumann (conductor)

02:31 AM
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)
Violin Concerto in B flat major
Andrea Keller (violin), Concerto Koln

02:44 AM
Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
Poeme de l'amour et de la mer, Op 19 vers. for voice and orchestra
Iwona Socha (soprano), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcin Nalecz-Niesiolowski (conductor)

03:11 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Sonata for piano in C minor, K.457
Denis Burshtein (piano)

03:35 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Peer Gynt Suite no 1, Op 46
麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

03:52 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
6 Lieder
Das Rosenband; Gluckes genug; Standchen; Ein Obdach gegen Sturm und Regen; Morgen; In goldener Fulle
Arleen Auger (soprano), Irwin Gage (piano)

04:10 AM
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Symphony in B flat major, Op 10 no 2
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor)

04:21 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Adagio con sentimento religioso, 2nd movement from String Quartet, Op 44
Young Danish String Quartet

04:31 AM
Louise Farrenc (1804-1875)
Overture no 2, Op 24
麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)

04:38 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata no 134 BWV.134: 'Wir danken und preisen' (duet)
Maria Sanner (contralto), Anders J. Dahlin (tenor), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)

04:44 AM
Nicolaas Arie Bouwman (1854-1941)
Thalia - overture for wind orchestra (1888)
Dutch National Youth Wind Orchestra, Jan Cober (conductor)

04:53 AM
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Danzon Cubano vers. for 2 pianos
Aglika Genova (piano), Liuben Dimitrov (piano)

05:00 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Sonata in F minor, from ''Der Getreue Music-Meister"
Michael Schneider (recorder), Rainer Zipperling (cello), Harold Hoeren (harpsichord), Camerata Koln

05:10 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
3 Songs for chorus, Op 42
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)

05:20 AM
Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)
String Quartet no 1 in E minor 'From My Life'
Vertavo String Quartet

05:49 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Symphony no 8 in B minor, D.759, 'Unfinished'
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy (conductor)

06:11 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Keyboard Trio in E major, Hob XV:28
Hiroko Sakagami (piano), Matthias Enderle (violin), Patrick Demenga (cello

Release date:

6 hours

On radio

Sun 17 Nov 2024 00:30

Broadcast

  • Sun 17 Nov 2024 00:30

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