Interviews with:
Yuko Sano(pianist)
Noriko Ogawa(pianist)
Ofra Hannoy & Mike Herriott(cellist & trumpeter)
Featured composers include: Verdi, Puccini, Khachaturian, Scarlatti,Prokofiev,Debussy, Bernstein, Bizet,Rachmaninov, Sawyers.
Featured artists include: Andre Rieu & JSO, English Symphony Orchestra, Tedd Joselson, Caruso, Pavarotti, Russell Watson, Mark Milhofer.
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Bennet Cerven introduces the music of The Trouble Notes
Dr Alexander Lingas tells us about his role in the forthcoming Coronation of King Charles III on 6th May 2023.
Music from Heitor Villa-Lobos, Giuseppe Verdi, Maurice Ravel, Samuel Barber.
Performances from: Russell Watson, Claudio Abbado and London Symphony Orchestra, Hungarian National Gypsy Orchestra , Andre Rieu and Johann Strauss Orchestra.
Latest releases from: Hélène Grimaud and Konstantin Krimmel (pay homage to Valentin Silvestrov)
Umeå Symphony Orchestra play Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996) Chamber Symphony No. 1 .
James Gilchrist tenor, Eric McElroy piano perform “Tongues of Fire (SOMM Recordings)
The Catalyst Quartet – Uncovered, Vol. III: play the music of George Walker, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, William Grant Still.
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BAFTA 2023 related music..
Calvin Jones (& wife Inga, below) explains “After The Conquest”
Rachel Barton Pine revisits Black Composers music and recent album.
Ofra Harnoy – Cello & Mike Herriott – Trumpet share their Portrait of favourite opera music.
MARK PADMORE & MITSUKO UCHIDA sing Schubert’ and Beethoven.
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio with guest vocalist Sting share The Piano Trios of Stanley Silverman.
The original game soundtrack for The Callisto Protocol.
Andrew Brownell brings us Shades of Night…
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A programme with GRAMMY 2023 winners music… New York Youth Symphony Orchestra (with music of Florence Price)
Also nominated: Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7-9 Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel Symphony No 7. 1. Allegro
and John Williams: The Berlin Concert. Berliner Philharmoniker, John Williams-Superman March.
Plus new releases from Chandos Records.. Shostakovich, Songs by Edmund Rubbra, Icelandic Works for the Stage.
Mette Henriette, Esma’s Band and The Art Deco Trio have new releases.
And a Live recording from the 1950s of Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos conductor(SOMM Recordings)
Clelia Iruzun (piano)(upper) and Nimrod Borenstein(lower) share composer and soloist’s thoughts on a Piano Concerto.
With additional music form Beethoven(Sarah Beth Briggs), Chopin(RUTH SLENZYNSKA), Mozart(Soile Marja Isokoski) Scubert(Quartetto Di Cremona)Jamie Lonsdale, Bruce Wolosoff, Skald, Simon Rattle, Andre Rieu.
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"In The Cooler" 