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Live music from Chinese Pipa player and composer Gao Hong

Chinese pipa virtuoso and composer Gao Hong joins Katie Derham to play live music from her album and talk about her concert at the Temple Church in London with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra on Saturday 17 January.

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BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Bedrich Smetana

    The Bartered Bride (Overture)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Smetana: The Bartered Bride.
    • Chandos.
    • 101.

  • Claude Debussy

    The Snow is Dancing (Children's Corner)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet, 'Trout' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alfred Brendel. Performer: Thomas Zehetmair. Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: Richard Duven. Performer: Peter Riegelbauer.
    • Schubert: Trout Quintet: Alfred Brendel.
    • Philips.
    • 3.

  • Gao Hong

    Flying Dragon (solo improvisation)

    Performer: Gao Hong.

  • Anon.

    Almain

    Ensemble: The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble.
    • Music for Windy Instruments: Sounds from the Court of James I.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 25.

  • George Gershwin

    Piano Concerto in F major - 2nd movement, Adagio - Andante con moto

    Performer: Stefano Bollani. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Piano Concerto: Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 8.

  • Gao Hong

    Guangxi Impression (solo improvisation)

    Performer: Gao Hong.

  • Gao Hong

    Guangxi Impression III - Celebrating the Harvest

    • Symphony of Self.
    • Naxos World.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Katy Bircher. Performer: Cecilia Bernardini. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.
    • J.S. Bach: Six Brandenburg Concertos.
    • Linn Records.
    • 16.

  • Trad.

    The Salley Gardens

    Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Roderick Williams.
    • Naxos.

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Trumpet Concerto in E major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Raymond Leppard.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Gao Hong

    Yue Xing 'Musical Journey' (solo improvisation)

    Performer: Gao Hong.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Tritsch-Tratsch Polka Op.214

    Music Arranger: Georges Cziffra. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Fantasia.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 10.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, Part Two: V. Lustig im Tempo und keck im Ausdruck

    Choir: The City of Prague Philharmonic Choir. Choir: Pueri gaudentes. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 3.
    • Pentatone.
    • 204.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La traviata (Act 1 Prelude)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • DECCA.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Addio, del passato (La traviata)

    Singer: Ermonela Jaho. Orchestra: Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana. Conductor: Andrea Battistoni.
    • Verdi: La traviata: "Teneste la promessa... Addio, del passato".
    • Opera Rara.
    • 1.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    The Gadfly Suite Op.97a (Galop)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Shostakovich: Film Music Vol.2: BBC Philharmonic/Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 41, 'Jupiter' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Music of the Spheres.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Little Prelude No 3 in E minor, BWV 941

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • J.S. Bach, The French Suites: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

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  • Wednesday17:00
    BBC Radio 3

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