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Classical artists, live in session

Dancer and choreographer Robert Battle joins Katie Derham, and jazz pianist Zoe Rahman performs live in the studio.

Dancer and choreographer Robert Battle, Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, talks to Katie Derham about the company's mixed bill presented in London.

Jazz pianist Zoe Rahman - accompanied by Gene Caldarazzo (drums) and Alec Dankworth (bass) - performs live in the studio, and talks about her new album, Colour of Sound.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Hugo Alfvén

    Shepherd Girl's Dance (The Mountain King Op.37)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • World Encores: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra/Jansons.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata for piano no. 18 (Op.31`3) in E flat major, 2nd movement; Scherzo

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Decca.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    H.M.S. Pinafore (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Scottish Opera. Conductor: Richard Egarr.
    • Gilbert & Sullivan: HMS Pinafore.
    • LINN.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Motet BWV230 'Lobet den Herrn alle Heiden'

    Ensemble: Solomon's Knot.
    • PROSPERO CLASSICS.
  • Franz Schubert

    Quartet in G major D.96 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Wolfgang Schulz. Performer: Wolfram Christ. Performer: Göran Söllscher. Performer: Georg Faust.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Violin concerto in G minor Op.80 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
  • Trad.

    Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel

    Choir: The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre.
    • Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
  • Gustave Charpentier

    Louise: Acte III, Scène I. "Depuis le jour"

    Performer: Leontyne Price.
  • Leó Weiner

    Két Tétel

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Christoph Koncz. Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Performer: Stephan Koncz. Performer: Ödön Rácz. Performer: Oszkár Ökrös. Music Arranger: Stephan Koncz.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.2 in C minor Op.17 'Little Russian' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • DECCA.
  • Zoe Rahman Trio

    Dance of Time

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 71 No. 3: I. Vivace

    • Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 71 Nos. 1-3.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Candide (Overture)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • SONY.
  • Zoe Rahman Trio

    Peace Garden

  • Zoe Rahman Trio

    Sweet Jasmine

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony no.9 in E minor 'From the New World' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Dvorak: Symphony no.9: Baltimore SO/Alsop.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Hornpipe from Water Music HWV348

    Ensemble: Göttingen Festival Orchestra. Director: Laurence Cummings.
    • Accent.

Broadcast

  • Mon 4 Sep 202317:00

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