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At the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Ireland, the Ardeo Quartet performs Saariaho's Terra Memoria and Janáček's String Quartet no 2 'Intimate Letters'. Pianist Barry Douglas plays Schubert's Piano Sonata no 16. John Shea presents. 12:31 AM Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023) Terra Memoria Ardeo Quartet 12:51 AM Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) String Quartet no 2 'Intimate Letters' Ardeo Quartet 01:18 AM Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Piano Sonata no 16 in A minor, D.845 Barry Douglas (piano) 01:53 AM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Symphony no 41 in C major, K 551 'Jupiter' Camerata Ireland, Barry Douglas (conductor) 02:24 AM Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Intermezzo in E major, Op 116 no 4 Barry Douglas (piano) 02:31 AM Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745) Te Deum in D major, ZWV.146 Martina Janková (soprano), Isabel Jantschek (soprano), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (contralto), Krystian Adam Krzeszowiak (tenor), Felix Rumpf (bass), Dresdner Kammerchor, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Václav Luks (conductor) 03:00 AM Charles Mouton (1626-1710) Pièces de Lute in C minor Konrad Junghänel (11 string lute) 03:29 AM Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840), Franz Liszt (arr.), Franz Liszt (transc.) Etude no 2 in E flat major Arthur Friedheim (piano) 03:35 AM Paul Dukas (1865-1935) Villanelle for horn and orchestra Esa Tukia (horn), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Adelson (conductor) 03:42 AM Matthias Schmitt (b.1958) Ghanaia for percussion Colin Currie (percussion) 03:49 AM Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784) Sinfonia in F major, F.67 Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Stephan Mai (director) 04:02 AM Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Fantasia in G major BWV.572 for organ Tomás Thon (organ) 04:10 AM Jacques-François Halévy (1799-1862) Aria: "Quand de la nuit l'epais nuage" (from "L'eclair", Act 3) Benjamin Butterfield (tenor), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor) 04:15 AM Jan van Gilse (1881-1944) String Quartet (Unfinished, 1922) Ebony Quartet 04:25 AM Scott Joplin (1868-1917) Gladiolus Rag (1909) Donna Coleman (piano) 04:31 AM Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Overture, L'Isola disabitata Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Rolf Gupta (conductor) 04:39 AM Camilla de Rossi (fl.1707-1710) Duol sofferto per Amore' (excerpt Sant'Alessio ) Martin Oro (counter tenor), Musica Fiorita, Daniela Dolci (director) 04:45 AM Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) Sonatina super Carmen (Sonatina no 6) for piano 'Kammerfantasie' Valerie Tryon (piano) 04:54 AM Philip Sparke (b.1951) Pantomime for Euphonium in B major Valerian Alfaré (euphonium), Edward Cervenka (piano) 05:00 AM Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Morgen from 4 Lieder (Op 27 no 4) Christianne Stotijn (mezzo soprano), Joseph Breinl (piano) 05:04 AM Zygmunt Noskowski (1846-1909) The Steppe, Op 66 - symphonic poem Santander Orchestra, Lawrence Foster (conductor) 05:23 AM Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) Trio for piano and strings in E flat major, Op 12 Hertz Trio 05:40 AM Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), Jan Hemmer (author) Jordens sang (Song of the Earth), Op 93 Academic Choral Society, Helsinki Cathedral Chorus, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ulf Söderblom (conductor) 05:59 AM Santiago de Murcia (1673-1739) Obra por 7 tono (suite) Eduardo Egüez (lute) 06:18 AM George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Water Music - suite in G major, HWV.350 Collegium Aureum

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