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Penelope Thwaites, Simon Crawford-Phillips

Katie Derham talks to composer and pianist Penelope Thwaites and conductor and pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips.

Katie Derham talks to the composer and pianist Penelope Thwaites about a new album of her choral works and songs called From Five Continents. She also talks to the conductor and pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips about various projects including Västerås Sinfonietta, the Swedish orchestra he conducts, and the Kungsbacka Piano Trio, of which he is a member.

2 hours

Last on

Mon 30 Mar 2020 17:00

Music Played

  • György Ligeti

    Toccata for 12 motor horns (excerpt from the overture to Le Grand macabre)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • SONY.
  • Johann Friedrich Fasch

    Concerto in D major for two horns, 'Die Jagd' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Hermann Baumann. Performer: Radovan Vlatković. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Director: Iona Brown.
    • Philips.
  • Penelope Thwaites

    Psalm 23 (The Lord Is My Shepherd)

    Performer: Penelope Thwaites. Singer: Carolyn Sampson.
    • Somm.
  • Percy Grainger

    Scotch Strathspey and Reel

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Country Gardiner Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • The music of Percy Grainger: Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.
    • 10.
  • Penelope Thwaites

    Yaathum Oore Yaavarum Kelir

    Performer: Benjamin Hill. Performer: Rob Spalton. Performer: Christopher Roberts. Performer: Tommy Fuller. Performer: Tom Chapman. Choir: Ex Cathedra. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Somm.
  • Penelope Thwaites

    Five Shakespeare Songs: O Mistress Mine

    Performer: Penelope Thwaites. Singer: James Gilchrist. Choir: Ex Cathedra. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Somm.
  • Penelope Thwaites

    Five Shakespeare Songs: It was a Lover and his Lass

    Performer: Penelope Thwaites. Performer: Tom Chapman. Choir: Ex Cathedra. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Somm.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Overture 'Leonore' no.3, Op.72b

    Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • Krzysztof Penderecki

    Violin Concerto Nr. 2: Metamorphosen (5 mvt: Scherzando)

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Krzysztof Penderecki.
    • DG.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Scherzo-valse (Suite pastorale)

    Ensemble: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Bizet/Chabrier: Les Siecles/Francois-Xavier Roth.
    • Mirare.
    • 8.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Manon Lescaut, Act 3: Intermezzo

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • The Asia Tour.
    • Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 220.
  • George Enescu

    Impromptu concertant

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Simon Crawford‐Phillips.
    • DG.
  • Alban Berg

    Seven Early Songs: No. 1: Night

    Singer: Elin Rombo. Orchestra: Västerås Sinfonietta. Conductor: Simon Crawford‐Phillips.
    • dB Productions.
  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 63: 4th mvt

    Ensemble: Kungsbacka Trio.
    • R. Schumann: Piano Trios, Vol. 1.
    • BIS.
    • 104.
  • Maurice Ravel

    String Quartet in F major (2nd mvt)

    Music Arranger: Quatuor Morphing. Ensemble: Quatuor Morphing.
    • Ravel & Mendelssohn.
    • Klarthe.
    • 102.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 68. Wir setzen uns mit Tränen nieder

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Bach: St. Matthew Passion.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 239.

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  • Mon 30 Mar 2020 17:00

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