Pianist James Baillieu with melodies that touch the heart
James Baillieu reveals familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light, from a Mozart string quartet to a spectacular saxophone showcase.
James Baillieu is a song and chamber music pianist, and a senior professor at the Royal Academy of Music. His choices today include some of the voices and pianists who made him fall in love with art song, such as the golden voice of soprano Mimi Coertse and the sensitive playing of pianist Gerald Moore.
James shares several pieces from South Africa, where he grew up, one of which features the sound of the uhadi, a instrument fashioned from the dehydrated skin of a calabash gourd.
He also gives insights into the difficulties of yodelling, how to imitate an orchestra on the piano, and what makes a piece sound tropical.
A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.
A Tandem Production for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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Soweto Gospel Choir
Bawo, Thixo Somandla
- SHANACHIE.
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Franz Schubert
Litany for the feast of All Souls, D. 343
Performer: Gerald Moore. Singer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.- REGIS.
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Symphonie romantique, 'La nuit des tropiques' (II. Festa Criolla)
Orchestra: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Rosenberg.- NAXOS.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet No. 22 in B flat major, K. 589, 'Prussian' (I. Allegro)
Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Richard Wagner
Mild und leise (Tristen and Isolde)
Singer: Margaret Price. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.- DG.
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Pedro Iturralde
Pequena Czarda
Music Arranger: John Harle. Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Andee Birkett. Performer: Zeynep Γzsuca. Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.- DECCA.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Magnificat (VII. Suscepit Israel puerum suum)
Singer: Wiebke Lehmkuhl. Singer: Lothar Odinius. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Hans-Christoph Rademann.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Igor Stravinsky
Glorification of the Chosen One (Rite of Spring, Part 2)
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.- SINETONE.
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Camille SaintβSaΓ«ns
Mon coeur s'ouvre Γ ta voix (Samson and Delilah, Act 2)
Singer: ElΔ«na GaranΔa. Orchestra: Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marco Armiliato.- DG.
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Arthur Pryor
Blue Bells of Scotland
Performer: Ian Bousfield. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band.- METRO DOUBLES.
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Dizu Plaatjies & Au Fil de L'Air
Yaka Yaka
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor (III. Allegro vivace)
Performer: Daniil Trifonov. Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick NΓ©zetβSΓ©guin.- DG.
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Benjamin Britten
Lachrymae, Op. 48a
Performer: Timothy Ridout. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jamie Phillips.- CLAVES.
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Traditional Afrikaans
Heimwee
Performer: Viktor Graef. Singer: Mimi Coertse.- DECCA.
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LΓ©on BoΓ«llmann
Suite Gothique (IV. Toccata)
Performer: Joseph Nolan.- SIGNUM.
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Edvard Grieg
Arietta (Lyric Pieces, Book 1, Op. 12)
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.- WARNER CLASSICS.
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Mary Schneider
Clarinet Polka Yodel
- KOCH CLASSICS.
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- Sat 27 Jan 2024 13:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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