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Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Francois-Xavier Roth, Anna Bonitatibus

Katie Derham presents, with guests including conductor Francois-Xavier Roth, and live music from both cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and mezzo-soprano Anna Bonitatibus.

Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. Live music today comes from superstar young cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, whose debut album was released this month, and mezzo-soprano Anna Bonitatibus, who has collected together some of her musical friends to perform two concerts at Wigmore Hall this week. Plus French conductor François-Xavier Roth talks about being at the helm of the London Symphony Orchestra.

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Music Played

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    The Swan (The Carnival of the Animals)

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Music Arranger: Tom Hodge. Ensemble: CBSO Cellos.
    • DECCA.
  • Ernest Bloch

    Prayer

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Konya Kanneh-Mason.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Valse Sentimentale

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Konya Kanneh-Mason.
  • Bob Marley

    No Woman, No Cry

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason.
  • Claude Debussy

    Suite no.1 (Fête)

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Musicales Actes Sud.
  • Charles Trenet

    La Mer

    Orchestra: Gürzenich-Orchester Köln. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
  • Claude Debussy

    La Mer (De l'aube à midi sur la mer)

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Musicales Actes Sud.
  • Walter Donaldson

    Makin' whoopee arr Grofé

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Ensemble: Harvey and the Wallbangers.
    • The Jazz Album: London Sinfonietta/Rattle.
    • EMI.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Let Beauty Awake (Songs of Travel)

    Performer: James Gilchrist. Performer: Anna Tilbrook.
  • Frigg

    Bo!

    • Sibelius Academy Folk Music Recordings.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Serenade for String Orchestra, Op 48 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Moscow Soloists. Conductor: Yuri Abramovich Bashmet.
    • RCD.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Notturno (Guarda che bianca luna)

    Performer: Anna Bonitatibus. Performer: Paul Nilon.
  • Luigi Gordigiani

    Il Trovatore

    Performer: Serena Farnocchia. Performer: Vincenzo Scalera.
  • Gottfried von Einem

    String Quartet No 4, Op 63 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Artis Quartett.
    • Orfeo.
  • Johann Rosenmüller

    Sonata Seconda

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Michael Costa

    Ecco quel fiero istante

    Performer: Serena Farnocchia. Performer: Anna Bonitatibus.
  • Giuseppe Martucci

    Quanti affetti del cor (from Pagine sparse per Canto e Piano, Op 68)

    Performer: Anna Bonitatibus. Performer: Vincenzo Scalera.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Wonderful Town (Act I, A Little Bit in Love)

    Singer: Audra McDonald. Orchestra: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

Broadcast

  • Wed 24 Jan 2018 17:00

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