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Wind down from work with classical music

Violinist Alena Baeva and pianist Vadym Khodolenko join Katie Derham for a live performance. Katie also meets organist Iveta Apkalna who will be performing at the Royal Festival Hall to celebrate the 70th birthday of its organ.

2 hours

Last on

Thu 21 Mar 2024 17:00

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks (La réjouissance)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Piano Quartet in A flat major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Sextet, Piano Quartet, Piano Trio.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.
  • Max Bruch

    Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra, Op 46 (Finale)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rory MacDonald.
    • Nicola Benedetti - ѿýcoming.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Mel Bonis

    Invocation (Scenes de la foret, Op 123)

    Performer: Anthony Robb. Performer: Richard Dilley. Performer: Diana Ambache.
    • Ambache.
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Stabat mater; 1. Stabat mater dolorosa

    Orchestra: PRJCT Amsterdam. Conductor: Maarten Engeltjes.
    • PENTATONE.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 orch Stokowski

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Stokowski's Symphonic Bach: ѿý Philharmonic, Bamert.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Georges Bizet

    L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2: Farandole

    Performer: Iveta Apkalna.
    • Oehms.
  • Charles‐Marie Widor

    Organ Symphony No 5: Toccata

    Performer: Iveta Apkalna.
    • OEHMS.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Baba Yaga (Pictures at an Exhibition)

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • ONYX.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no. 40 in G minor K.550 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Resonanz. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41 "Jupiter".
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 105.
  • Robert Schumann

    1st movement from Fairytale Pictures

    Performer: Alena Baeva. Performer: Vadym Kholodenko.
  • Edvard Grieg

    The Last Spring (2 Elegiac Melodies)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Grieg & Tchaikovsky: Music for String Orchestra.
    • DG.
    • 7.
  • Johann Strauss

    Radetzky March

    Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Walzer Revolution.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 10.
  • Edward Elgar

    Salut d'amour

    Performer: Alena Baeva. Ensemble: Vadym Kholodenko.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Brindisi (La traviata)

    Conductor: Zubin Mehta. Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Singer: Alfredo Kraus. Orchestra: Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Choir: Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
    • Verdi: La traviata: Zubin Mehta.
    • Philips.
    • 3.
  • William Grant Still

    Symphony no.1 'African-American' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • Naxos.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Extracts from "The Fairy's Kiss"

    Performer: Alena Baeva. Performer: Vadym Kholodenko.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux aurumque

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.
  • Muzio Clementi

    Rondo in B flat major, WO8

    Performer: Howard Shelley.
    • Clementi: Capriccios & Variations: Howard Shelley.
    • Hyperion.
    • 29.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Trumpet Concerto in D for trumpet, 2 oboes, strings and continuo (1st mvt)

    Performer: Håkan Hardenberger. Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Director: Iona Brown.
    • PHILIPS.

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