through the night

Posted on March 31, 2005 by vhk10

We’re now rediscovering Radio 3’s Through the Night programming, now that we get woken in the small hours by Magnus (born Thursday March 24th). We listened to the programme regularly during the infancies of our older children so it will be interesting to find out whether the content has changed much. Is the most frequently occurring piece still the overture to Ruslan and Ludmila? Are certain other other pieces such as Richard Strauss’ First Horn Concerto, which came round more often than you’d expect, still regularly played? Are a disproportionate number of the performers still Canadian? And what about the composers who used to turn up week after week but whom you rarely encountered elsewhere, such as Clérambault and Hellendaal? (A little unfair. I have performed music by Clérambault; as for Hellendaal, he is buried in the churchyard of the church I used to attend and where we got married! Their music doesn’t get broadcast except in the middle of the night though.) I will report back in a future contribution.

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3 Responses to through the night

  1. vhk says:
    April 7, 2005 at 11:28 pm

    Some things haven’t changed. The day after I wrote the above I noticed that the programe featured the overture to Ruslan & Ludmila. So far the programming has been interesting enough to keep us awake, though I did pull the plug on Bruckner 3 a few nights ago.

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  2. vhk says:
    April 9, 2005 at 4:27 pm

    The Canadians are still out in force – a couple of nights ago we heard an ensemble from Manitoba followed by the Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra of Ottawa. And in the small hours last night Magnus had his first encounter with the music of Hellendaal …

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  3. vhk says:
    April 15, 2005 at 5:17 pm

    Along with the Canadians there seem to be a lot of performances from Denmark, but not as much as there used to be from Eastern Europe (apart from Hungary). Last night we heard what ought to be the programme’s theme tune: Nessun Dorma.

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