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Tom Service talks to star pianist Alice Sara Ott

Tom Service talks to the star pianist Alice Sara Ott and plays the best classical music, from familiar favourites to new discoveries. He also talks to comedy duo TwoSet Violin and asks whether perfumes and scents can help composers to unlock their creativity.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Fêtes (Nocturnes)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Stéphane Denève.
    • Debussy: Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Stephane Deneve.
    • Chandos.
    • 17.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Trio in C major H.15.27 for keyboard and strings: III. Finale

    Ensemble: Trio Gaspard.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Blumine (Symphony No 1 in D major)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • LPO.
  • Padre Antonio Soler

    Fandango

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Los Pajaros Perdidos: L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 19.
  • Florence Price

    String Quartet No 2 in A minor (3rd mvmt, Juba)

    Ensemble: Ragazze Quartet.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F major D.803 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Anne Katharina Schreiber. Performer: Danusha Waskiewicz. Performer: Kristin von der Goltz. Performer: James Munro. Performer: Lorenzo Coppola. Performer: Teunis van der Zwart. Performer: Javier Zafra.
    • Schubert: Oktett.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 3.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 82; III. Allegro molto - Largamente assai

    Orchestra: Orchestre Métropolitain. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • ATMA.
  • Mel Bonis

    L'oiseau bleu Op.74

    Choir: ѿý Singers. Performer: Libby Burgess. Conductor: Grace Rossiter.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15; III. Rondo

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott. Conductor: Karina Canellakis. Orchestra: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Beethoven.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 3.
  • Anonymous

    Sonata Jucunda

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • La Roxolana.
    • Alpha.
    • 16.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Overture to Die Zauberflöte, K. 620

    Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Gábor Takács‐Nagy.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos Vol. 8.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Charles Gounod

    Ave Maria

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach. Performer: Thibaut Garcia. Singer: Elsa Dreisig.
    • ERATO.
  • Marc-André Hamelin

    Music Box (Con Intimissimo Sentimento)

    Performer: Marc-André Hamelin.
    • Hamelin: Etudes, Con Intimissimo Sentimento, Cathy's Variations, Marc-Andre Hame.
    • Hyperion.
    • 16.
  • Johann Paul von Westhoff

    Violin Sonata No 3, 'Imitazione delle campane'

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Jonathan Cohen.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 12.
  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61 - 1st movement

    Conductor: Heinz Holliger.
    • Schumann: Complete Symphonic Works Vol. II.
    • Audite.
    • 01.
  • Marin Marais

    Couplets de folies

    Performer: Lucie Horsch. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Lucie Horsch - Baroque Journey.
    • Decca.
    • 12.
  • Michael Abels

    Abels: Isolation Variation

    Performer: Hilary Hahn.
    • Abels: Isolation Variation.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Hans Zimmer

    Chevaliers De Sangreal (The Da Vinci Code)

    Performer: Anna Lapwood.
    • Midnight Sessions at the Royal Albert Hall.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonia. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Ben Parry

    Lighten Our Darkness

    Conductor: Rupert Gough. Choir: Choir of Royal Holloway.
    • The Hours: Choral Music by Ben Parry.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 2101.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Sextet in D Major, Op. 110: IV. Allegro vivace

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Sextet, Piano Quartet, Piano Trio.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Sat 11 May 2024 09:00