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Experience classical music live in session

Katie Derham is joined by composer, cellist and singer Ayanna Witter-Johnson with the LSO Percussion Ensemble to perform live in the studio, and violinist Ray Chen joins Katie from Glasgow, where he’s currently rehearsing with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

2 hours

Last on

Wed 1 Nov 202317:00

Music Played

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Marche miniature viennoise

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • EMI.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 40 1st mvt

    Orchestra: Il Pomo d’Oro. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 29 & 40 - Oboe Concerto.
    • Aparté.
    • 108.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Seasons Op.37b for piano; November (In the troika)

    Performer: Vadym Kholodenko.
    • harmonia mundi.
  • Stephan Koncz

    A New Satiesfaction [Gymnopedie no.1]

    Composer: Erik Satie. Performer: Ray Chen. Performer: Noah Bendix-Balgley. Performer: Amihai Grosz. Performer: Stephan Koncz.
    • The Golden Age.
    • DECCA.
    • 1.
  • Henry Purcell

    Hail, bright Cecilia (Hail, bright Cecilia)

    Choir: Choir of Musiciens du Louvre, Grenoble. Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Purcell; Handel; Haydn - To Saint Cecilia.
    • Naive.
    • 13.
  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Dornröschen Tone-Pictures (Festival Sounds)

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Anton Rickenbacher.
    • Humperdinck: Fairy-Tale Music: Karl Anton Rickenbacher.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Ballade no.3 in A flat major Op.47

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • DG.
  • Christina Macpherson

    Waltzing Matilda

    Performer: Ray Chen.
  • Franz Schubert

    Rosamunde D.797 (Ballet in G major)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Enrique Bátiz.
    • Orchestral Lollipops: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Enrique Batiz.
    • RPO.
    • 10.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D minor, Kk.32

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • D. Scarlatti: Sonatas: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 12.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Chau Paris

    Music Arranger: Claudio Constantini. Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Performer: Roberto Koch. Performer: Claudio Constantini.
    • Piazzolla Reflections.
    • Alpha.
    • 1.
  • Reinhard Keiser

    Croesus (Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • Keiser: Croesus: Rene Jacobs.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Ayanna Witter-Johnson

    Unconditionally

    Performer: Ayanna Witter-Johnson. Ensemble: LSO Percussion Ensemble.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Laudate Dominum à 5

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale Vol.1: The Sixteen/Christophers.
    • Coro.
  • Ayanna Witter-Johnson

    Pioneers from Ocean Floor Suite

    Performer: Ayanna Witter-Johnson. Ensemble: LSO Percussion Ensemble.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata No 38 in F major, H XVI 23 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin.
    • Haydn: Piano Sonatas: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Mussorgsky / Borodin: Berliner Philharmoniker / Rattle.
    • EMI.
    • 20.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Cantique de Jean Racine

    Choir: CBSO Chorus. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Faure: Choral works: City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus/BBC Philharmonic/Torteli.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Espana

    Ensemble: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Escales.
    • Chandos.
    • 01.

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