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Les Sirenes premiere three songs live

Award-winning female choir Les Sirenes and director Andrew Nunn perform three wonderful songs, plus composer Christopher Duncan chooses the week's My Music.

Award winning female choir Les Sirenes with director Andrew Nunn perform three wonderful songs - all of which are premieres. Musician and composer Christopher Duncan chooses his favourite piece of classical music in this week's 'My Music' and soprano Alison McNeill and guitarist Sasha Savaloni perform a beautiful Scottish song that they recorded specially for Classics Unwrapped.

2 hours

Last on

Sun 27 Nov 2016 21:00

Music Played

  • Antonio Vivaldi, Nigel Kennedy

    The New Four Seasons, Summer – ‘His fears are only too true’

    Performer: Nigel Kennedy, Members of the Orchestra of Life.
  • Leroy Anderson

    Plink, Plank, Plunk!

    Performer: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    L' Amour Medecin - Overture

    Performer: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
  • Paul Shaffer, Paul Jabara

    It’s Raining Men

    Music Arranger: Paul Ayres. Performer: Les Sirenes. Conductor: Andrew Nunn.
  • Stephen Hatfield

    When Icicles Hang By The Wall

    Performer: Les Sirenes. Conductor: Andrew Nunn.
  • Bob Chilcott

    Our Revels Now Are Ended

    Performer: Les Sirenes. Conductor: Andrew Nunn.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    L'Egyptienne

    Music Arranger: Paul Chamberlain. Performer: Paul Chamberlain.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Piano Concerto No 5 the Egyptian, last mvt.

    Performer: Pascal Roge, Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Isle Of The Dead

    Performer: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
  • Mesrop Mashtots

    Ankanim Araji Qo

    Music Arranger: Tigran Hamasyan. Performer: Tigran Hamasyan (piano), YereVan State Chamber Choir.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Theme by Thomas Tallis

    Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
  • Philip Glass

    String Quartet No. 3 (Mishima); mvt. I

    Performer: Kronos Quartet.
  • Trad.

    Dream Angus

    Performer: Alison McNeill & Sasha Savaloni.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    O sacrum convivium

    Performer: Danish National Vocal Ensemble, Danish National Concert Choir. Conductor: Marcus Creed.
  • Claude Debussy

    La Plus Que Lente

    Performer: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesleid

    Performer: Clara Rockmore.
  • Richard Strauss

    Also Sprach Zarathustra Op.30

    Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
  • Benjamin Britten

    The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Op.34

    Performer: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Libor Pešek.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Aquarium

    Performer: Nash Ensemble.
  • Jay Capperauld

    Terrarium

    Performer: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Holly Mathieson.
  • Oliver Searle

    Sauchiehall

    Performer: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
  • Ivor Novello, Ronald Stevenson

    We'll Gather Lilacs

    Performer: Kenneth Hamilton.
    • Kenneth Hamilton Plays Ronald Stevenson Vol. 1.
  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    An Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Gernon.

Broadcast

  • Sun 27 Nov 2016 21:00