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Wielding the baton

Music Matters Knowing the Score

With the help of rugby coach Clive Woodward and conductor Edward Gardner, sports journalist Eleanor Oldroyd explores the connections between classical music and sport.

With the help of virtuoso soloists, charismatic conductors, world champions and famous athletes, presenter Eleanor Oldroyd invites sporting stars and big names in the classical world to share their experiences and draw comparisons between their professions on the stage or in a stadium. The guests introduce music that inspires them, and Eleanor chooses pieces with a sporting theme which have meant something to her in her in her time covering 13 Summer and Winter Olympic Games for the 蜜芽传媒.

As a coach or a conductor, how do you bring the best out of your athletes or musicians? What works best, the carrot or the stick? How do you relinquish control and learn to trust the talented individuals under your leadership? Conductor Edward Gardner speaks of the collective - and personal - excitement of conducting complex symphonies after hours of rehearsals. Are they the same feelings experienced by coach Clive Woodward when, after years of preparation, his England rugby team won the World Cup in 2003? Clive and Ed discuss their own personal approaches to coaching and conducting in order to achieve elite levels of performance. How do they motivate others, and what motivates them? Around their discussion with Eleanor, we hear Ed conducting large-scale works, including extracts from Holst's The Planets, and Berlioz's Grand Messe des Morts.

Producer: Ben Collingwood.

56 minutes

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Sat 21 Jun 2025 13:00
蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Guy Garvey

    First Steps

    Ensemble: Elbow. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Zadok the Priest

    Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Peter Grimes (Four Sea Interludes - Dawn)

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.

  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets (Jupiter)

    Orchestra: The National Youth Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.

  • John Hughes

    Guide me, O thou great Jehovah

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Choir: Black Mountain Choir. Choir: The Risca Choir. Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Gareth Jones.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Aida (Grand March)

    Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.

  • Erik Satie

    Sports et divertissements for piano

    Performer: Anne Queff茅lec.

  • Mark-Anthony Turnage

    The Silver Tassie (Oh bring me a pint of wine)

    Singer: Gerald Finley. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Requiem (Dies irae)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Violin Concerto in C major H.7a.1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Dmitry Smirnov. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Haydn 2032 Vol. 17: Per il Luigi.
    • Alpha.
    • 10.

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