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Sir James MacMillan, Harry Bicket

Katie Derham talks to composer Sir James MacMillan and artistic director of The English Concert Harry Bicket.

Katie Derham talks to composer Sir James MacMillan about his Cumnock Tryst Festival, which this year centres around a community project with input from naturalist Chris Packham and writer Alexander McCall Smith among others. Artistic director of The English Concert Harry Bicket also joins Katie, and there's a specially recorded instrumental session from the viola players of the BBC orchestras.

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Last on

Wed 30 Sep 202017:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker (March)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker: LSO, Previn.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 15.

  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)

    Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet.

  • James MacMillan

    Stabat Mater (1st mvt excerpt)

    Singer: Julie Cooper. Choir: The Sixteen. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.

  • Sir James MacMillan

    Vidi Aquam

    Choir: ORA.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in F major, TWV 54:F1 (1st mvt, 'Vivace')

    Performer: La Stagione Frankfurt. Ensemble: La Stagione Frankfurt. Conductor: Michael Schneider.
    • Telemann - Grand Concertos IV.
    • 008.

  • Edward Elgar

    Enigma Variations - Nimrod (arranged James Manson)

    Performer: BBC Concert Orchestra. Performer: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Performer: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Performer: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Music Arranger: James Manson.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Four Hymns, no 1 ('Lord! Come Away!')

    Performer: Ruşen Güneş. Singer: Philip Langridge. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Vaughan Williams: Epithamalion; Merciless Beauty; Four Hymns.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Die Forelle

    Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Ian Bostridge.
    • Schubert: Lieder: Bostridge, Drake.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Chorale-Prelude 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme', BWV 645

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • The World of The Organ, Simon Preston.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in B minor, Op 33 No 1 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Lindsay String Quartet.
    • ASV.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Wonderful Town (Overture)

    Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Wonderful Town.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Fidelio (Overture)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Beethoven: Overturen - Wiener Philharmoniker/Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
    • 1.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No 1 in F sharp minor, Op 1; 3rd mvt

    Performer: Simon Trpceski. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 1 & 4, etc: Simon Trpceski, RLPO, Petrenko.
    • Avie.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Welcome as the dawn of day (Solomon)

    Singer: Rosemary Joshua. Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Harry Bicket.
    • Handel Duets: The English Concert.
    • Chaconne.
    • 3.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Armida abbandonata - Italian cantata no.13 HWV.105: Ah! crudele (Aria)

    Singer: Lucy Crowe. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Harry Bicket.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Since we met (Waltz Suite for Orchestra)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Prokofiev: Waltz Suite: Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Neeme Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    2 Nocturnes Op.27 (no.2 in D flat major)

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Nelson Freire: Chopin, The Nocturnes.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

Download sheet music of Elgar's Nimrod arranged for violas by James Manson

Play-along Viola 1

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Play-along Viola 2

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Play-along Viola 3

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Play-along Viola 4

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Play-along Viola 5

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Play-along Viola 6

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Play-along Viola 7

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Play-along Viola 8

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Broadcast

  • Wed 30 Sep 202017:00
    BBC Radio 3

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