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The classical soundtrack for your evening

Katie Derham is joined by violinist Jack Liebeck, pianist Yoshie Kawamura and violinist Alexandra Raikhlina for live performance. Plus, musicologist and pianist Francesco Lotoro speaks about collecting musical literature produced by musicians in captivity during the Holocaust.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.1 in C major Op.21 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • The Beethoven Symphonies: Live from the Edinburgh Festival.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet in F minor Op.2 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet, Piano Trio, Piano Quintet.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • John Williams

    Theme from Schindler's List

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Itzhak Perlman.
    • MCA.
  • Mario Castelnuovo‐Tedesco

    Sea Murmurs

    Performer: Alexandra Raikhlina. Performer: Yoshie Kawamura.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 56, 'Scottish' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • Harmonia Mundi HMC 902228.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 2.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    Quartet for the End of Time: V. Louange à l'Eternité de Jésus

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: James Baillieu.
    • Song.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 11.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Romeo & Juliet Suite No. 2, Op. 64ter: II. The Young Juliet

    Orchestra: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov.
    • Prokofiev: Excerpts from Cinderella and Romeo & Juliet.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 502.
  • Robert Kahn

    Romanze from Suite for Violin and Piano

    Performer: Alexandra Raikhlina. Performer: Yoshie Kawamura.
  • Robert Kahn

    Burleske from Suite for Violin and Piano

    Performer: Alexandra Raikhlina. Performer: Yoshie Kawamura.
  • Johann Christian Bach

    Symphony in G minor, Op 6 No 6 (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: David Zinman. Orchestra: Nederlands Kamerorkest.
    • Newton Classics.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op. 33a: No. 2, Sunday Morning

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • London Symphony Orchestra - British Composers. Holst, Elgar, Delius....
    • Warner Classics.
    • 22.
  • Jonathan Dove

    Seek Him that maketh the Seven Stars

    Performer: Jeremy Filsell. Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Franz Waxman

    Scenes from Childhood (movements 3 and 4)

    Performer: Jack Liebeck. Performer: Nicola Eimer.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    The Sea Hawk Suite (Main titles)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Chandos.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Forlana (5 Bagatelles Op.23)

    Music Arranger: Lawrence Ashmore. Performer: Robert Plane. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • Finzi: Clarinet Concerto, Five Bagatelles: Robert Plane, Northern Sinfonia.
    • Naxos.
  • Zygfryd Maciej Stryjecki

    Argentinian Tango

    Performer: Francesco Lotoro.
    • DOCUMENTS.
  • Eva Lippold

    Wiegenlied

    Performer: Francesco Lotoro. Singer: Libera Granatiero.
    • DOCUMENTS.
  • Walter Lindenbaum

    In einem kleinen Café in Terezin

    Singer: Angelo de Leonardis. Ensemble: Orchestra Musica Concentrationaria. Conductor: Francesco Lotoro.
    • DOCUMENTS.
  • Rebecca Dale

    Kyrie (Materna Requiem)

    Singer: Louise Alder. Performer: Jonathan Aasgaard. Choir: Kantos Chamber Choir. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Requiem for My Mother.
    • Decca.
    • 002.
  • Mieczysław Weinberg

    Serenade, Op.47 no.4 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Siberian State Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Lande.
    • Weinberg: Symphony No. 13 & Serenade.
    • Naxos.
    • 204.
  • Franz Schubert

    Moments Musicaux D.780 No.5 in F minor

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • PHILIPS.

Broadcast

  • Mon 27 Jan 202517:00

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