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Composer Thomas Ades plus a National Youth Orchestra studio takeover!

Tom Service talks to Thomas Adès ahead of his double Proms appearance as conductor and composer. Also, the brilliant players of the National Youth Orchestra play live in the studio

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

Tom is joined by the composer and conductor Thomas Adès. As a composer, Adès has created a stunning musical language all of his own and is one of the world's most inventive and in demand composers. Described as a 'modern masterpiece', his multi-award winning ballet 'Dante' is being performed at the Proms this week, the first part by the LA Phil and Gustavo Dudamel and the second with the young players of the National Youth Orchestra, with whom Adès has a long association.

Some of those players will be joining Tom in the studio to play an exclusive live session and chat about their concert happening later that day at the BBC Proms.

Also, as part of our focus on musical Creators, Tom talks to the Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz. Her music fuses Mexican traditions with contemporary classical music and has won her Best Contemporary Classical Composition at the Grammys for the past two years, including her ballet Revolución diamantina, which is given its UK premiere at the Proms this week. She chats to Tom about her musical language and background.

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Music Played

  • Manuel de Falla

    La vida breve - Spanish Dance No. 1

    Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque. Lyricist: Carlos Fernández Shaw.
    • 55.
    • Universal Music Division Decca Records France.
    • 14.

  • Georges Bizet

    Symphony in C Major: III. Menuetto. Scherzo

    Conductor: Paavo Järvi. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie.
    • Bizet : Symphony in C, Jeux d'Enfants, Roma.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Franz Schubert

    Du bist die Ruh, D776

    Music Arranger: Xandi van Dijk. Ensemble: Signum Quartett.
    • Franz Schubert - A Night of Classics.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 85.

  • Jerome Kern

    All the Things You Are

    Lyricist: Oscar Hammerstein II. Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Joyce and Tony.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 20.

  • Gabriela Ortiz

    Kauyumari for orchestra

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Platoon.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in A Flat Major, Op 42

    Performer: Sasha Stychkina.
    • ALPHA.

  • Edward Elgar

    Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85: I. Adagio - Moderato

    Performer: Astrig Siranossian. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Sir!.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 1.

  • Ruaidri Dáll Ó Catháin

    Tabhair dom do Lámh

    Performer: Chris Thile. Performer: Brad Mehldau. Lyricist: Ruaidri Dáll Ó Catháin.
    • Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 11.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade No 1 in D major (6th mvt, Rondo (Allegro))

    Orchestra: Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Keyboard Suite no.2 in F major HWV.427 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Murray Perahia plays Handel and Scarlatti.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 12.

  • Claude Debussy

    Nocturnes: III. Sirènes

    Conductor: Robin Ticciati. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Choir: Berlin Radio Choir.
    • Debussy: Nocturnes – Duruflé: Requiem.
    • Linn Records.
    • 3.

  • Thomas Adès

    Dante, Pt. I "Inferno"

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Thomas Adès

    Dante, Pt. II "Purgatorio"

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Thomas Adès

    Dante Pt. III "Paradiso"

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Franz Liszt

    La campanella

    Performer: Mariam Batsashvili.
    • Influences.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 13.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto for 3 Oboes, 3 Violins in B-Flat Major, TWV 44:43: I

    Conductor: Reinhard Goebel. Orchestra: Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum.
    • The Leipzig Collegium Musicum Vol. 1: Music before Bach.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Suite pastorale: 1st mvt Idylle

    Conductor: Neeme Järvi. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
    • Chabrier: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 107.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 'Waldstein' - 1st mvt

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • DG.

  • Timothy Jackson

    Ten Blue Bottles, from Four Kinds of Blue (horn duet)

    Performer: Emma Sandford. Performer: Jacob Adams.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony no.9 in E minor Op.95 'From the New World' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • Reference Recordings.

  • Thomas Adès

    O Albion - from Arcadiana

    Performer: Aki Blendis. Performer: Charlotte Shlomowitz. Performer: Rebecca Wells. Performer: Noah Hacking.

  • Gustav Holst

    March from Three Pieces for Oboe and String Quartet

    Performer: Alasdair Cottee. Performer: Aki Blendis. Performer: Charlotte Shlomowitz. Performer: Rebecca Wells. Performer: Noah Hacking.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto no.6 in B flat major (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos: Concerto Italiano.
    • Naive.
    • 8.

  • Arvo Pärt

    7 Magnificat-Antiphons: No. 2, O Adonai

    Lyricist: Arvo Pärt.
    • Pärt: And I Heard a Voice….
    • ECM New Series.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16

    Performer: Javier Perianes. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Gabriela Ortiz

    Revolución diamantina

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Platoon.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in E-Flat Major, K. 563: VI. Allegro

    Ensemble: Ssens Trio.
    • Mozart: Divertimento K. 563 / Preludes and Fugues K. 404a.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 6.

  • Väinö Raitio

    Legenda

    Performer: Linda Hedlund. Orchestra: La Tempesta Orchestra. Conductor: József Hárs.
    • Finnish Works for Violin & Orchestra.
    • Naxos.
    • 106.

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