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Carducci String Quartet joins Tom Service

Tom Service with guests, stories and the perfect classical soundtrack to start the weekend.

Tom plays classical music to start your weekend and is joined by world renowned Carducci String Quartet for a special performance of music by Dmitri Shostakovich and Philip Glass. They discuss cellist Emma's family connection to Shostakovich and how his music and his life story resonate today.

Ahead of her performance with the London Sinfonietta, pianist, composer and sound artist Maya Dunietz talks about her close relationship and collaboration with the Ethiopian musician and nun, Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru who died in 2023 at the age of 99. Emahoy's music has been heard more and more in recent years, thanks in part to Maya's help putting together a book of her piano works. Now Maya has arranged a selection of these pieces for piano and strings, something Emahoy dreamt might happen one day.

Plus the continuation of 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3鈥檚 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century 鈥� a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. This week, Views from the M9 by Glaswegian composer Aileen Sweeney is inspired by one of the largest pieces of public art in the UK, The Kelpies. A pair of monumental steel horse-heads by sculptor Andy Scott between Falkirk and Grangemouth, they were unveiled in 2014, just months before the Scottish Referendum. It鈥檚 recorded by the 蜜芽传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

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Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Lieder ohne Worte V, Op. 62: VI. Allegretto grazioso

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Julien Quentin. Performer: Gunars Upatnieks. Ensemble: Schumann Quartett.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Partita: I. Intrada

    Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Meeresstille und gl眉ckliche Fahrt, Op. 112

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Z眉rich. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • ARTE NOVA.

  • Martin Lohse

    Echoes off Cliffs: VI

    Performer: Bjarke Mogensen.
    • ORCHID CLASSICS.

  • Francesco Maria Veracini

    Concerto for eight instruments in D major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Chouchane Siranossian. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.
    • Alpha.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Lascia ch'io pianga (Rinaldo)

    Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Orchestra: Il Pomo d鈥橭ro. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • In War & Peace - Harmony through Music.
    • Erato.
    • 7.

  • Eduard K眉nneke

    Dance Suite, Op.26: No.3 Intermezzo

    Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ernst Theis.
    • BR Klassik.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Chorale Preludes (11), Op. 122: No. 5, Schmu虉cke dich, o Liebe Seele

    Performer: Samson Tsoy. Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni.
    • Linn Records.

  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Sinfonietta 3rd Movt

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.

  • Emahoy Tsegu茅-Maryam Gu猫brou

    Mother's Love

    Performer: Emahoy Tsegu茅-Maryam Gu猫brou.
    • Buda Musique.

  • Emahoy Tsegu茅-Maryam Gu猫brou

    Presentiment

    Performer: Emahoy Tsegu茅-Maryam Gu猫brou.
    • Buda Musique.

  • Emahoy Tsegu茅-Maryam Gu猫brou

    Ballad of the Spirits

    Performer: Emahoy Tsegu茅-Maryam Gu猫brou.
    • Buda Music.

  • Emahoy Tsegu茅-Maryam Gu猫brou

    Ballad of the Spirits

    Performer: Maya Dunietz. Music Arranger: Maya Dunietz.
    • LATENCY.

  • Emahoy Tsegu茅-Maryam Gu猫brou

    Evening Breeze

    Performer: Maya Dunietz. Music Arranger: Maya Dunietz.
    • LATENCY.

  • Franz Liszt

    Mephisto Waltz No 1

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • Hyperion.

  • Jacobus Clemens non Papa

    Ego Flos Campi

    Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Philip Glass

    String Quartet no 2 'Company': 2nd mvt

    Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    String Quartet No 4 in D major, Op 83 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.

  • Philip Glass

    String Quartet no 3 'Mishima': VI. Mishima/Closing

    Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, H.7e.1 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Alison Balsom.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.

  • Regino S谩inz de la Maza

    搁辞苍诲别帽补

    Performer: Thibaut Garcia.
    • ERATO.

  • Edmund Finnis

    Figures of Eight: no.3

    Performer: Clare O'Connell. Performer: Marianne Schofield.
    • NMC.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Gloria in excelsis Deo (Gloria)

    Ensemble: Polyphony. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Director: Stephen Layton.
    • Poulenc: Gloria; Motets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Jean Sibelius

    The Oceanides Op.73

    Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲. Performer: Lahti Symphony Orchestra.
    • BIS.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Suite en La Mineur, RCT 5: V. La Fanfarinette

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No.9 in D minor (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Kahchun Wong.
    • HALLE.

  • Honor茅 d'Ambruys

    Le doux silence de nos bois

    Performer: Thomas Dunford. Singer: Lea Desandre.
    • Erato.

  • Aileen Sweeney

    Views from the M9

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano concerto No 2 in F major, Op 102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 102: II. Andante.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quintet in E flat major K.452 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Ensemble 360.
    • Mozart: Chamber Works.
    • ASV.
    • 7.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Suite for Viola & Orchestra, Group 3: II Polka M茅lancolique. Molto moderato

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jamie Phillips.
    • Music for Viola and Chamber Orchestra.
    • Claves.
    • 7.

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  • Saturday 09:00
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