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Mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly

Tom Service with guests, stories and the perfect classical soundtrack for the weekend. Tom's guest is the mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly.

Tom Service with guests, stories and the perfect classical soundtrack for the weekend.

Tom is joined by mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly who talks about her relationship to the music of Mahler, her ambition to become a jazz musician earlier in her career, and her upcoming concert at the Surrey Hills International Music Festival.

Violinist Randall Goosby chats to Tom about his current tour, making connections between the music of Harry Burleigh, Antonin Dvorak, Amy Beach, Claude Debussy and Ludwig van Beethoven.

And our focus on Creators continues with composer Gabriel Prokofiev, whose Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra turns 20 this year.

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Music Played

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Trittico Botticelliano: No. 1, La Primavera

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony (orchestra); Riccardo Frizza (conductor). Conductor: Riccardo Frizza.
    • Italian Perspectives.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Arturo Márquez

    Fandango (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Anne Akiko Meyers. Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Platoon.

  • Clara Schumann

    3 Romances Op.11 ( no.1 in E flat minor)

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Romance – The Piano Music of Clara Schumann.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute Concerto in G major, K 313 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Zofia Neugebauer. Orchestra: Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen. Conductor: Johannes Klumpp.
    • BERLIN CLASSICS.

  • Zofia Neugebauer

    Il Vento non Scritto

    Performer: Zofia Neugebauer.
    • BERLIN CLASSICS.

  • Claude Debussy

    Danse sacrée et danse profane, L. 103 (Arr. for Vibraphone and String Quartet)

    Performer: Vassilena Serafimova. Music Arranger: Vassilena Serafimova. Ensemble: Quatuor Ardeo.
    • Melodies in a Bottle.
    • La Dolce Volta.
    • 6.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Cantique de Jean Racine

    Choir: Accentus. Ensemble: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Naive.

  • Steve Reich

    The Four Sections (Full Orchestra)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • The Four Sections.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 4.

  • William Byrd

    Miserere mihi Domine for 6 voices

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi UK Limited.

  • Dora Pejačević

    Piano quartet in D minor, Op 25 (2nd mvt - Adagio)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no. 5 in C minor Op.67: 4th mvt; Allegro

    Conductor: Jordi Savall. Orchestra: Les Concert des Nations.
    • Beethoven: Révolution, Symphonies 1 à 5.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 20.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott, BWV 721 (Arr. Thomas for Piano Trio)

    Performer: Fred Thomas. Performer: Aisha Orazbayeva. Performer: Lucy Railton.
    • ECM.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Dopo notte (Ariodante)

    Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Orchestra: Symphony of Harmony and Invention. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Heroes and Heroines.
    • Coro.
    • 8.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Das Lied von der Erde: Der Abschied

    Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Orchestra: Berliner Rundfunk Sinfonie Chor. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Pentatone.

  • Franz Schubert

    Die junge Nonne, D.828

    Performer: Dalton Baldwin. Singer: Elly Ameling.
    • Philips.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Symphony in E flat, Op 1 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko.
    • Stravinsky: Symphony in E-Flat Major and Suites Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 102.

  • Lucien Durosoir

    Berceuse

    Performer: Jessie Ann Richardson. Performer: Emmanuel Despax.
    • RESONANCE: Schumann, Farrenc, Durosoir.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 110.

  • Nico Muhly

    Incipit lamentatio; ALEPH. Quomodo sedet (No resting place)

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • Nico Muhly: No Resting Place.
    • Linn Records.
    • 6.

  • William Grant Still

    Suite for Violin and Piano; III. Gamin

    Performer: Zhu Wang. Performer: Randall Goosby.

  • Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

    Blue/s Forms for Solo Violin: III. Jettin' Blue/s

    Performer: Randall Goosby.
    • Decca.

  • Florence Price

    Violin Concerto No 1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1; Florence Price: Violin Concertos.
    • Decca.

  • Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 - finale

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Decca.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture. Lentement - Vite - Lentement, from Overture in D, TWV 55:D1

    Ensemble: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Thomas Adès

    Forgotten Dances VI. Vesper (for Henry Purcell)

    Performer: Sean Shibe (guitar).
    • Vesper.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 6.

  • Robert Schumann

    Phantasiestucke Op.73, no.1; Zart und mit Ausdruck arr. for double bass

    Performer: Lorraine Campet. Performer: Nathanaël Gouin.
    • Âmes sœurs.
    • Aparté.
    • 16.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in E flat major, K 252 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Consortium Classicum.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 16.

  • Aaron Copland

    Symphony no.3 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Copland: Symphony No. 3.
    • SFS Media.
    • 4.

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