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Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Richard Wagner

    The Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walküre)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • The Berlin Album: Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Sinfonia in G major RV.149

    Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Andrew Manze.
    • Vivaldi.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.
  • Amanda Röntgen-Maier

    Piano trio in E flat major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Trio Orelon.
    • Dora Pejačević & Amanda Maier: Piano Trios.
    • Da Vinci Classics.
    • 6.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Trio sonata in G major, BWV 530 - II. Lento (transc. Bartók)

    Performer: Zlata Chochieva.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu No 3 in G flat major, D 899

    Performer: Clare Hammond. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: George Fenton.
    • The Lady in the Van (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 12.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia concertante in E flat major, K 364 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Noah Bendix-Balgley. Performer: Diyang Mei. Orchestra: Berlin Baroque Soloists.
    • Mozart: Viola Concerto & Sinfonia Concertante.
    • Sony.
    • 5.
  • Philip Glass

    Glassworks (Closing)

    Ensemble: Philip Glass Ensemble.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Ging heut' morgen uber's Feld (Songs of a Wayfarer, No 2)

    Singer: Huw Montague Rendall. Orchestra: Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen Normandie. Conductor: Ben Glassberg.
    • Contemplation.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.
  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Canarie (Le bourgeois gentilhomme)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    African Suite (Valse)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Chineke! Records.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Tu es Petrus

    Choir: New York Polyphony.
    • Roma Aeterna.
    • Bis.
    • 12.
  • Philip Glass

    Spaceship from Einstein on the Beach

    Performer: Philip Glass Ensemble.
  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite (3rd mvt, Minuet)

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Alexander Tsfasman

    Lyrical waltz from Jazz suite

    Performer: Zlata Chochieva. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Karl‐Heinz Steffens.
    • Works for piano & orchestra.
    • Naive.
    • 9.
  • Franz Liszt

    Chasse-neige (Transcendental Etude no 12)

    Performer: Zlata Chochieva.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in G Flat major, Op 23 No. 10

    Performer: Zlata Chochieva.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    The Force of Destiny (Overture)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Il mondo della luna (Act 2, March)

    Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Doráti.
    • PHILIPS.

Broadcast

  • Fri 27 Sep 202417:00

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