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Tom Donald, Michael Butten

Katie Derham talks to composer Tom Donald about his series of lockdown music education sessions and to guitarist Michael Butten ahead of his Wigmore Hall recital.

Katie Derham talks to composer and pianist Tom Donald about his new series of lockdown music education sessions for young people and his new album 'Written in the Scrolls'. We also hear from guitarist Michael Butten, winner of this year's New Elizabethan Award, who will be performing a special recital at London's Wigmore Hall this weekend.

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Tue 2 Feb 202117:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Jules Massenet

    March of the Princesses (Cendrillon Suite)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Brilliant Classics.

  • Robert Schumann

    Traumerei (Kinderszenen, Op 15 No 7) arr. for choir

    Music Arranger: Heitor Villa‐Lobos. Choir: Coro da OSESP. Conductor: Valentina Peleggi.
    • Villa-Lobos: Choral Transcriptions.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto no. 3 in G (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Violin Concertos.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 10.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Art of Fugue BWV.1080 (Contrapunctus 12)

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Bach: The Art of Fugue.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 15.

  • Tom Donald

    Homecoming Warrior

    Performer: Tom Donald.
    • Written in the Scrolls.
    • 5.

  • Tom Donald

    Speaking with the Afterlife

    Performer: Tom Donald.
    • Written in the Scrolls.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphonic Dances, Op.45 (no.2)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, The Isle of the Dead, The Rock.
    • Avie.
    • 2.

  • Franz Schubert

    German Dance No 1 in A flat major, D 820

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Schubert: Piano Sonatas D664, D537 etc - Uchida.
    • Philips.
    • 1.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String quartet in E flat major, Op 76 No 6 (finale)

    Ensemble: London Haydn Quartet.
    • Joseph Haydn - String Quartets Op 76.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.

  • Claude Debussy

    Jardins sous la pluie (Estampes)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 4 in A major, Op 90, 'Italian' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphonies 3 & 4: Norrington/London Classical Players.
    • EMI.
    • 5.

  • Sulpitia Cesis

    Cantate Domino

    Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia. Director: Candace Smith.
    • Tactus.

  • Daniel François Esprit Auber

    Grand Overture for the Inauguration of the London Exhibition

    Orchestra: Moravská filharmonie Olomouc. Conductor: Dario Salvi.
    • Auber: Overtures, Vol. 3.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • John Dowland

    A Fancy in E minor

    Performer: Michael Butten.
    • First Hand Records.

  • John Dowland

    Lord Strang's March

    Performer: Michael Butten.
    • First Hand Records.

  • John Dowland

    Queen Elizabeth's Galliard

    Performer: Michael Butten.
    • First Hand Records.

  • John Dowland

    'Tremolo' Fancy

    Performer: Michael Butten.
    • First Hand Records.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Lo, the full, final sacrifice - Amen

    Performer: Andrew Lucas. Choir: St Paul's Cathedral Choir. Conductor: John Scott.
    • Hyperion.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Ballet des follets (from Damnation of Faust, Op 24)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Louis Frémaux.
    • WARNER.

  • Johann Paul von Westhoff

    Violin Sonata in A major, 'La guerra'

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Ensemble: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 22.

Broadcast

  • Tue 2 Feb 202117:00
    BBC Radio 3

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