22/10/2013
Sally Beamish talks about her new commission Flodden, written to mark the 500th anniversary of the historic battle. Plus music from Bizet's operas Carmen and The Pearl Fishers.
Jamie is joined this week by composer Sally Beamish to discuss her new piece Flodden, commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra on the 500th anniversary of this historic battle. It's also the 175th birthday of French composer Bizet and we'll be playing music from his classic operas Carmen and The Pearl Fishers.
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Classics Unwrapped - Sally Beamish Interview
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Duration: 05:15
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Joseph Haydn
Piano Trio
Performer: Haydn Trio Eisenstadt. -
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Georges Bizet
Pearl Fisher's Duet from Pearl Fisher's opera
Performer: Nicolai Gedda, Ernest Blanc, Chorus And Orchestra Of The Opera Comique, Paris. Conductor: Pierre Dervaux. -
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AntonΓn DvoΕΓ‘k
Scottish Dances Op. 41
Performer: Stefan Veselka. -
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Beamish
The Caledonian road
Performer: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Ola Rudner. -
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ZoltΓ‘n KodΓ‘ly
Dances of Galanta
Performer: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras. -
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Rachmaninov
Allegro Scherzando extract from Piano Concerto No. 2
Performer: Francois-Rene Duchable, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg. Conductor: Theodor Guschlbauer. -
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Henry Purcell
Music for a While
Performer: Swedish Radio Chorus. Conductor: Gustaf SjΓΆkvist. -
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Peter Maxwell Davies
An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise
Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, George McIlwham. Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies. -
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AntonΓn DvoΕΓ‘k
Slavonic DANCES
Performer: Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Zdenek Kosler. -
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Georges Bizet
Dance Bohemian Β from Scenes Bohemiennes
Performer: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Ernest Ansermet. -
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JeanβYves Thibaudet
Ravel Piano Concerto
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Schubert
2nd mvt, Piano Quintet in A Major 'Trout'
Performer: Nash Ensemble. -
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Mozart
Lacrimosa from Sequenz III, from Requiem
Performer: Wiener Singverein, Berlin Phil. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. -
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Bernstein
Extract from opening Β Chichester Psalms
Performer: Edward Bruner, Pacific Choral, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Alexander. -
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Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto Β last movement
Performer: David Oistrakh, Orchestra symphonique de la Radio d'URSS. Conductor: Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky. -
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Georges Bizet
Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre Β Toreador Song..Carmen
Performer: Jose van Dam, LPO and Sir George Solti. -
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Johannes Brahms
last movement.. Symphony No 4
Performer: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
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Broadcast
- Tue 22 Oct 2013 20:05ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Scotland except Extra