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Miriam Margolyes and Simon Callaghan, Jeremy Backhouse

Katie Derham chats to Miriam Margolyes and pianist Simon Callaghan about their new album The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant plus Jeremy Backhouse of the Vasari Singers on their 40th anniversary release Heaven Full of Stars.

2 hours

Last on

Thu 5 Nov 2020 17:00

Music Played

  • Percy Grainger

    Country Gardens

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pezzo capriccioso Op.62

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Virgin.
  • Francis Poulenc

    The Story of Babar - opening

    Performer: Simon Callaghan. Narrator: Miriam Margolyes.
    • Nimbus.
  • Sir George Dyson

    My Birthday

    Performer: Simon Callaghan.
    • Somm.
  • Francis Poulenc

    The Story of Babar - The Wedding of Babar

    Performer: Simon Callaghan. Narrator: Miriam Margolyes.
    • Nimbus.
  • Domenico Cimarosa

    Oboe Concerto in C major

    Music Arranger: Arthur Benjamin. Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Orchestra: Peterborough String Orchestra. Director: Nicholas Daniel.
    • HELIOS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Trio in D major Op.70`1 (Ghost) for piano and strings: 3rd movement; Presto

    Ensemble: Van Baerle Trio.
    • CHALLENGE CLASSICS.
  • Franz Schubert

    Die Forelle, D.550

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • Schubert: Lieder: Bostridge, Drake.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Will Todd

    Benedictus (Mass in Blue Op.28)

    Singer: Bethany Halliday. Choir: Vasari Singers. Performer: Will Todd. Performer: Jim Fleeman. Performer: Gareth Huw Davies. Performer: Adrain Revell. Performer: Ben Castle. Performer: Mike Smith. Performer: Chris Storr. Performer: Dominic Glover. Performer: Fayyaz Virji. Performer: Patrick Hartley. Performer: Richard Henry. Performer: Matthew Turner. Conductor: Jeremy Backhouse.
    • Will Todd: Mass in Blue: Vasari Singers.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 5.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos: Ibragimova/OAE/Jurowski.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks (Overture)

    Performer: Peter Hanson. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • G.F. Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks: English Concert/Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 1.
  • Edvard Grieg

    March of the Trolls, Op 54, No 3 (Lyric Pieces)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • HYPERION.
  • Ēriks Ešenvalds

    Stars

    Choir: Vasari Singers. Conductor: Jeremy Backhouse.
    • Heaven Full of Stars.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Bob Chilcott

    Salisbury Motets: 4) Hail, Star of the sea most radiant

    Choir: Vasari Singers. Conductor: Jeremy Backhouse.
    • Naxos.
  • Robert Schumann

    Humoreske, Op 88 No 2 (Phantasiestücke)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Gautier Capuçon.
    • Live from the Lugano Festival 2009, Martha Argerich and friends.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.
  • Claude Debussy

    Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Debussy: La mer, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune – Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole.
    • Lso Live.
    • 105.

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