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Rose Matafeo

In conversation with Sean Rafferty, New Zealand comedian Rose Matafeo chooses music by Elgar, Debussy, Ravel, Bernstein, Gershwin, Wagner from the BBC Experience Classical Archive.

Sean Rafferty meets much-loved figures from the worlds of dance, drama and the media. This evening New Zealand comedian Rose Matafeo chooses music from the BBC Experience Classical Archive, including pieces with the flavours of impressionism, which she loves, like Debussy La mer and Ravel Jeux d'eau, but also in Delius' tone poem 'On hearing the first cuckoo in spring'. Rose also loves Gershwin and jazz-infused pieces, so she's selected his 'An American in Paris'.

Elgar: Cockaigne (in London Town), Op. 40
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Davis, conductor

Ravel: Jeux d’eau
Zhang Zuo, piano

Debussy: La mer
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor

Delius: On hearing the first cuckoo in spring
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth, conductor

Respighi: Pines of Rome (binaural recording)
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards, conductor

Bernstein: Sonata for clarinet and piano
Annelien Van Wauwe, clarinet
Martin Klett, piano

Gershwin: An American in Paris
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde – Prelude and Liebestod
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Thu 4 Mar 202119:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Cockaigne (In London Town), Op. 40

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Jeux d'Eau

    Performer: Zhang Zuo.

  • Claude Debussy

    La mer

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.

  • Frederick Delius

    On hearing the first cuckoo in spring

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Pines of Rome

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Sonata for clarinet and piano

    Performer: Annelien Van Wauwe. Performer: Martin Klett.

  • George Gershwin

    An American in Paris

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.

  • Richard Wagner

    Tristan and Isolde - Prelude and Liebestod

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.

Broadcast

  • Thu 4 Mar 202119:30
    BBC Radio 3