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Ian Bostridge and Joseph Middleton, Michael Pärt, Eivind Ringstad

Sean Rafferty is joined by tenor Ian Bostridge with pianist Joseph Middleton, viola player Eivind Ringstad and Estonian producer Michael Pärt.

Sean Rafferty is joined by tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist Joseph Middleton, performing live in the studio ahead of this weekend's Leeds Lieder Festival. Viola player Eivind Ringstad also joins Sean to talk about his new album, which features works by Vieuxtemps, Enescu and Hindemith, and the Estonian music producer Michael Pärt previews the 85th birthday celebrations this week for his father, composer Arvo Pärt.

2 hours

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Love sounds th' alarm (Acis and Galatea)

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Anthony Robson. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Director: Harry Bicket.
    • Great Handel - Ian Bostridge.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in B flat major, Op 55 No 3 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Salomon Quartet.
    • Haydn: "Tost II" Quartets Op.55.
    • HYPERION.
    • 12.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Carnival of the Animals - Finale

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Narrator: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf & Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
    • 13.
  • Béla Bartók

    Romanian Folk Dances

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • La Roxolana.
    • Alpha.
    • 09.
  • Franz Schubert

    Winterreise - Die Nebensonnen

    Performer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
  • Franz Schubert

    Winterreise - Der Leiermann

    Performer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
  • Benjamin Britten

    At the Railway Station from Winter Words

    Performer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
  • Franz Liszt

    Études d'exécution transcendante S139, No 8 in C minor 'Wilde Jagd' (Wild Hunt)

    Performer: Alexander Gadjiev.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake, Op. 20 (Excerpts), Act Iv: No. 29, Finale. Andante - allegro agitato

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
    • Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 401.
  • Trad.

    A young maid stood in her father's garden

    Music Arranger: Herbert Hughes. Singer: Ailish Tynan. Performer: Iain Burnside.
    • A Purse of Gold - Irish Songs by Herbert Hughes.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 23.
  • Arvo Pärt

    Für Alina; Für Anna Maria

    Performer: Ralph van Raat.
    • NAXOS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont, Op 84 (Overture)

    Orchestra: The Hanover Band. Director: Roy Goodman. Director: Monica Huggett.
    • Beethoven: Orchestral Overtures: Hanover Band, Goodman.
    • Nimbus.
    • 6.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Misera, dove son, K.369

    Performer: Christiane Karg. Performer: Jonathan Cohen. Performer: Arcangelo.
    • Scene!.
    • Berlin Classics.
    • 005.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita no.5 in G major BWV.829 (Allemande)

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • Sony Classical.

Broadcast

  • Tue 27 Oct 202017:00

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