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Pianist Melvyn Tan performs live in the studio.

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Tue 3 Dec 202417:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    In dulci jubilo, BWV 608, arranged for brass ensemble

    Ensemble: Onyx Brass.
    • Canite Tuba: Music for Advent and Christmas.
    • Resonus.

  • Arturo Márquez

    Danzón no.2

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Francesca Caccini

    Romanesca

    Choir: Cappella di Santa Maria degli Angiolini. Conductor: Gian Luca Lastraioli.
    • BRILLIANT.

  • SPEECH

    "The Waves" by Virginia Woolf, read by Simon Callow

  • Claude Debussy

    Prelude no. 1, Danseuses de Delphes

    Performer: Melvyn Tan.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Scherzo in A minor, Op 81`2

    Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
    • Erato.

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Piano and Violin Concerto, Op. 17 - 2nd movement

    Performer: Herbert Schuch. Performer: Mirijam Contzen. Performer: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Sony.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Les Contes d'Hoffmann; Barcarolle (Belle nuit, o nuit d'amour)

    Singer: Jessye Norman. Singer: Anne Murray. Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling. Orchestra: Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de l'Opera.
    • EMI.

  • SPEECH

    "To Juan Ramon Jimenez, on his book Sad Arias" by Antonio Machado, read by Simon Callow

  • Enrique Granados

    Lament of the Maiden and the Nightingale

    Performer: Melvyn Tan.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    La clemenza di Tito (Overture)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Baldini.
    • Linn.

  • William Byrd

    Ecce, Virgo Concipiet

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
    • Puer Natus Est, Tudor Music For Advent and Christmas: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 9.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Dance of the Tumblers (Snow Maiden suite)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Efrem Kurtz.
    • Efrem Kurtz - Profile.
    • EMI.
    • 004.

  • SPEECH

    "The Dancer" by Colum McCann, read by Simon Callow

  • Maurice Ravel

    Valses Nobles et Sentimentales, No. 3 & 4

    Performer: Melvyn Tan.

  • Duke Ellington

    Isfahan

    Composer: Billy Strayhorn. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • American Music.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 305.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Merry Doll (Nursery Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • EMI.

  • Herbert Stothart

    Suite from The Wizard of Oz (extract)

    Composer: Harold Arlen. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Randall Thompson

    Frostiana (Seven Country Songs) - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

    Performer: Simon Sharp. Performer: Brian Davis. Choir: London Gay Men’s Chorus. Conductor: Jeremy Haneman.
    • MCPS.

  • Henry Purcell

    Rondeau (Abdelazer)

    Ensemble: The Brandenburg Consort. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Rondeaux Royaux: The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Triple Concerto for Flute, Oboe d'Amore and Violin (reconstructed Hindermann) - mov.1 after BWV99

    Music Arranger: Walter Hindermann. Ensemble: Die Freitagsakademie.
    • DHM.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No.9 'From the New World': III. Scherzo

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Rafael Kubelík.
    • DG.

Broadcast

  • Tue 3 Dec 202417:00
    BBC Radio 3

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