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Howard Shelley and London Mozart Players, Emily Sierra and Adrian Butterfield

Katie Derham is joined by pianist Howard Shelley, playing with members of the London Mozart Players, and by mezzo-soprano Emily Sierra with conductor Adrian Butterfield.

Katie Derham is joined by pianist Howard Shelley, playing with members of the London Mozart Players, as they prepare to play all Beethoven's Piano Concertos in a single day. And the American mezzo-soprano Emily Sierra sings live in the studio. She appears this weekend at Wigmore Hall in Handel's opera Parnasso in Festa. Adrian Butterfield, who is conducting the performance, also talks to Katie about London Handel Festival 2020.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Overture in D major H.1a.7

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • BR Klassik : 40357-190010-2.
    • BR Klassik.
    • 1.
  • Richard Strauss

    Morgen, Op.27 no.4

    Singer: Jessye Norman. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Kurt Masur.
    • PHILLIPS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Quartet op 16 - final mvt (rondo allegro ma non troppo)

    Performer: Howard Shelley. Performer: Simon Blendis.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Symphony No.2 'The Four temperaments' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • BIS.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song without words in C minor (op 38 no 2)

    Performer: Howard Shelley.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Quartet in G K478 - 1st mvt - allegro

    Performer: Howard Shelley. Performer: Simon Blendis.
  • William Byrd

    Domine, praestolamur

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Ceremony and Devotion: Music for the Tudors.
    • Coro.
    • 7.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Eugene Onegin (Polonaise)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • EMI.
  • Kodály Zoltán

    Intermezzo (Hary Janos Suite, Op.35a)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Zoltan Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite: Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer.
    • Philips.
    • 15.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in G-sharp minor Op. 32/12

    Performer: Inon Barnatan.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Straussiana

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Korngold - Symphony in F sharp.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 5 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
    • Beethoven, Symphony no. 5 and no. 7: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Laschia ch'io pianga from Rinaldo

    Performer: Emily Sierra. Performer: Paul Nicholson.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Tra sentier di amene selve from Parnasso in Festa

    Performer: Emily Sierra. Performer: Paul Nicholson.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Qui d'amor nel suo linguaggio from Ariodante

    Performer: Emily Sierra. Performer: Paul Nicholson.

Broadcast

  • Fri 6 Mar 202017:00

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