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Gil Shaham, The Cumnock Tryst & Mother's Day

Multiple Grammy winner, violinist Gil Shaham talks to Jamie about his first solo release in 5 years.

The Grammy winning international violinist Gil Shaham talks about his latest album, his first in five years that features Beethoven and Brahms concerti with The Knights. Jamie also shares Mother’s Day requests from listeners and hears about the Cumnock Tryst’s ambition to put composition on the map, with composer and Chief Executive Jennifer Martin.

Photo credit Chris Lee

1 hour, 55 minutes

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Sun 14 Mar 2021 21:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Scotland

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Music Played

  • Josef Suk

    When mother was still a little girl (About Mother Op.28)

    Performer: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Suk: Piano Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 13.

  • Harold Arlen

    Over the Rainbow

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Songs Of Comfort And Hope.
    • Sony.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Matthew Passion (Erbarme dich, mein Gott)

    Performer: Clare Wilkinson. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort and Players. Director: John Butt.
    • Bach: Matthew Passion.
    • Linn.
    • 001.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Concerto in D major Op 77 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Ensemble: The Knights.
    • Beethoven & Brahms: Violin Concertos.
    • Canary Classics.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Concerto in D Major, Op 61 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Ensemble: The Knights.
    • Beethoven & Brahms: Violin Concertos.
    • Canary Classics.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 5 (Adagietto)

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Donald Runnicles.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Nuns' Chorus arr Gamley (Casanova)

    Music Arranger: Douglas Gamley. Music Arranger: Ralph Benatzky. Singer: Joan Sutherland. Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Joan Sutherland - Greatest Hits.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ‘k

    Songs my mother taught me

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Anna Polonsky. Music Arranger: Heinrich GrΓΌnfeld.
    • Dvorak: Cello Concerto Op 104.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Sir James MacMillan

    Motet 1

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Softloud.
    • Delphian.
    • 11.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness (The Yellow Cake Revue)

    Performer: Peter Maxwell Davies.
    • Peter Maxwell Davies: A Celebration of Scotland.
    • Unicorn-Kanchana.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    A Birthday Card for Jennifer

    Performer: Philip Moore.
    • The Last Island: Chamber Music By Peter Maxwell Davies.
    • DELPHIAN.
    • 10.

  • William Grant Still

    Mother and Child

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • Estrellita.
    • Bis.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Three Little Maids from School Are We

    Librettist: William Gilbert. Conductor: Peter Robinson. Singer: Lesley Garrett. Singer: Jean Rigby. Singer: Susan Bullock. Orchestra: Orchestra of the English National Opera.
    • Gilbert and Sullivan: The Mikado.
    • That's Entertainment.
    • 8.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker (Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 12.

  • Peter Warlock

    Pieds en l'air (Capriol Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Clio Gould.
    • English String Classics 2.
    • Apex.
    • 11.

  • Trad.

    My Ain Folk

    Performer: Michael Barnett. Music Arranger: Kenneth McKellar. Singer: Jamie MacDougall.
    • Inspirations.
    • Self Distributed.
    • 015.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Concerto in D major Op 77 (final mvt)

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Ensemble: The Knights.
    • Beethoven & Brahms: Violin Concertos.
    • Canary Classics.

Broadcast

  • Sun 14 Mar 2021 21:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Scotland