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Classical music live from the ѿý

Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians.

Up Close and Musical Festival artistic director Shiry Rashkovsky joins Sarah Walker in the studio along with Trio Klein, mezzo Lucy Schaufer and pianist Ben Dawson, who perform live in the studio. Plus, more live music from tenor Laurence Kilsby and pianist Ella O’Neill who are looking forward to their concert at the Oxford International Song Festival. We're also joined by the Song Festival's artistic director, Sholto Kynoch.

2 hours

Last on

Fri 29 Sep 2023 17:00

Music Played

  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Zapateado

    Performer: Sarah Chang. Performer: Charles Abramovic.
    • Simply Sarah.
    • EMI.
    • 14.
  • Percy Grainger

    Harvest Hymn

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • The Grainger Edition, Vol. 1 - Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.
  • Georgia Stitt

    Sunday Light (from the 'Alphabet City' cycle) arr. for voice, violin & piano

    Performer: Lucy Schaufer. Performer: Kamila Bydlowska. Performer: Ben Dawson. Lyricist: Marcy Heissler.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg concerto no.4 in G major (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt. Conductor: John Butt.
    • J.S. Bach: Six Brandenburg Concertos.
    • Linn Records.
    • 11.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet No 14 in C sharp minor, Op 131 (2nd mvt) arr. for string orchestra

    Ensemble: Kremerata Baltica. Director: Gidon Kremer.
    • Searching for Ludwig: Beethoven, Sollima & Ferré.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 2.
  • Franz Liszt

    Paysage (Transcendental Studies)

    Performer: Nicholas Angelich.
    • Hommage.
    • Erato.
    • 2.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Orpheus in the Underworld - concert overture

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Offenbach Overtures.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Jocelyn Pook

    Garden Elegy from 'Storm from Paradise'

    Performer: Lucy Schaufer. Performer: Shiry Rashkovsky.
  • Stephen Barber

    The Ride in the Helium Balloon (from 'The Wild Plum Songbook')

    Performer: Lucy Schaufer. Performer: Shiry Rashkovsky. Performer: Ella Rundle. Performer: Ben Dawson.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Atalanta (Overture)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • EMI.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Unbewegte laue Luft ('Motionless mild air')

    Performer: Laurence Kilsby. Performer: Ella O'Neill.
  • Thomas Tomkins

    Be Strong and of Good Courage

    Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No 5 in B flat major, D 485 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    La Coccinelle ('The Ladybird')

    Performer: Laurence Kilsby. Performer: Ella O'Neill.
  • Jake Heggie

    Snake (from 'Eve-Song')

    Performer: Laurence Kilsby. Performer: Ella O'Neill.
  • Jules Massenet

    Navarraise (Le Cid - ballet suite)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Decca.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 3 No 2

    Performer: Boris Giltburg.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin concerto No 1 in B flat major, K 207 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart: The Violin Concertos.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • George Harrison

    Here Comes The Sun

    Music Arranger: Göran Söllscher. Performer: Göran Söllscher.
    • Here, There And Everywhere: Goran Sollscher plays The Beatles.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 16.
  • Léo Delibes

    Waltz (Coppelia)

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Bru Zane.

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