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World-class classical music – live

Katie Derham introduces live music from the Mithras Trio, and she talks to contralto Hilary Summers about her forthcoming Brighton Festival show, What’s So Great About Opera?

2 hours

Music Played

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    1st movement from Summer (Concerto in G minor, Op 8 No 2, from The Four Seasons)

    Performer: Fabio Biondi. Ensemble: Europa Galante.
    • Vivaldi The Four Seasons.
    • Opus 111.
    • 4.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Drink up, the wine is here! (from The Seasons)

    Orchestra: Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra. Choir: Chór NFM. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Haydn: The Seasons.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 10.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Kaddische (2 Hebrew Melodies)

    Performer: Raphael Wallfisch. Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Benjamin Wallfisch.
    • Works by Bloch, Caplet and Ravel.
    • NIMBUS.
    • 10.
  • Edward Elgar

    Harmony Music no.1

    Ensemble: Athena Ensemble.
    • Elgar: Complete Works for Wind Quintet: Athena Ensemble.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    String Serenade Op.48 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony no.4: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra/Jarvi.
    • BIS.
    • 6.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 6 in F major, Op 68, 'Pastoral': Szene am Bach [ Scene by the Brook ]

    Conductor: David Zinman. Orchestra: Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6: Tonhalle Orchestra, Zinman.
    • Arte Nova Classics.
    • 6.
  • Henry Purcell

    Music for a while

    Singer: Hilary Summers.
    • ‏Zھ.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Amadigi: Pena tiranna

    Singer: Hilary Summers. Ensemble: Early Opera Company. Conductor: Christian Curnyn.
    • Chandos.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Rapsodie espagnole, M. 54: IV. Feria

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Debussy: La mer, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune – Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole.
    • LSO Live.
    • 4.
  • Alberto Ginastera

    Argentine Dance no.2 "Danza de la moza donosa"

    Music Arranger: Leo Popplewell. Ensemble: Mithras Trio.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Haydn; Hummel etc.: Trumpet Concertos.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.
  • Lili Boulanger

    D'un matin de printemps

    Ensemble: Mithras Trio.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Piano Trio: 3. Allegro vivo

    Ensemble: Mithras Trio.
  • Florence Price

    Symphony no.3 in C minor (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Sam Coslow

    You'll have to swing it (Mr Paganini)

    Performer: Ella Fitzgerald. Orchestra: Sy Oliver’s Orchestra.
    • Jazz Factory.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.104 in D major 'London' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
    • Naive.
    • 12.

Broadcast

  • Mon 6 May 2024 17:00

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