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Tom Service chats to conductor Marin Alsop

Tom Service chats to conductor Marin Alsop, delves into the week's biggest music stories and plays the best classical music for your Saturday morning

Start your weekend with Tom Service, as he plays the best classical music for your Saturday morning.

Tom's guest is Marin Alsop, one of the world's most in demand and trailblazing conductors. Tom and Marin chat about how advocacy is central to her musical life - whether that's through her OrchKids project for primary school children in Baltimore, advocating for gender equality or performing new classical music. Marin has premiered countless new works, particularly by American composers and she talks to Tom about where she sees America culturally today.

With a brand new recording of Beethoven's Triple Concerto round the corner, the all-star trio of violinist Nicola Benedetti, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and pianist Benjamin Grosvenor talk about the joys of collaboration.

Plus Tom delves into some of the week's stories from the classical music world. How can metal music save church organs? Tom finds out about a movement called 'Organic Metal' pairing the two in a bid to save our pipe organs.

Plus this week's Musical Question Time asks can plants make music? Tom investigates with the help of composer Helen Anahita Wilson and bio-acoustician Dr Laura Arru.

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Sat 13 Apr 2024 09:00
麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Kevin Puts

    Marimba concerto (1st mvt)

    Performer: Ji Su Jung. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Kevin Puts: Marimba Concerto, The City & Oboe Concerto No. 2 "Moonlight".
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B minor, BWV.232 (Sanctus)

    Ensemble: Arcangelo. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Bach: Mass in B minor.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Nocturne No. 4 in E-Flat major, Op. 36

    Performer: Brad Mehldau.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Trad.

    Sekstur from Vendsyssel; The Peat Dance

    Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • DaCapo.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance no 10 in F major

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Naxos.

  • James MacMillan

    Woman of the Apocalypse

    Orchestra: 麻豆约拍 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    2 Symphonic Dances Op.45 (no.1)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • DG.

  • Mel Bonis

    Femmes de Legende - no.4 Viviane

    Performer: Diana Sahakyan.
    • Kaleidos Musikeditionen.

  • Edward Elgar

    Sea Pictures, Op. 37 - IV. Where corals lie

    Singer: Felicity Palmer. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Elgar Sea Pictures; The Music Makers.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 14.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Make Our Garden Grow (Finale) - from Candide

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop. Choir: London Symphony Chorus.
    • LSO.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in G Major, H. 657, Wq. 182/1: III. Presto

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • C.P.E. Bach: Symphonies - From Berlin to Hamburg.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 12.

  • Alexander Tsfasman

    Suite for Piano and Orch (Jazz Suite) - i. Snowflakes & iii. Polka

    Performer: Chiyan Wong. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Christoph Koncz.
    • Platoon.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Voices Sing of Immortality (arr. for brass ensemble by Jarle Storl酶kken)

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Ensemble: tenThing.
    • She Composes Like A Man.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 15.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No.5 in B flat (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Schubert: The Symphonies.
    • BIS.
    • 301.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in G Minor, BWV 578 "Little"

    • Virgil Fox at Carnegie Hall, New York City, December 20, 1972.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Feria (Rapsodie espagnole)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥� Philharmonie. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Ravel: Rhapsodie Espagnole etc: Orchestre de Paris/Bychkov.
    • Philips.
    • 4.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Eternal source of light divine (Birthday ode for Queen Anne)

    Singer: Lea Desandre. Singer: Iestyn Davies. Ensemble: Jupiter. Conductor: Thomas Dunford.
    • Eternal Heaven.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in C major, Kk.72

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • D. Scarlatti: Sonatas: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 3.

  • Georgs Pel膿cis

    Flowering Jasmine

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Ensemble: Kremerata Baltica.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Helen Anahita Wilson

    Linea Naturalis

    Performer: Helen Anahita Wilson.

  • Richard Wagner

    Tannh盲user (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Teldec.

  • 脡lisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Violin Sonata no.2 in D major

    Performer: Riccardo Minasi. Ensemble: Bizzarrie Armoniche.
    • 狈础脧痴贰.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Triple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
    • Decca Classics.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    22 Scottish Songs, WoO 156: No. 1, Untitled

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Decca.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Mazurka in A minor, Op.59 no.1

    Performer: Emanuel Ax.
    • CBS.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Violin Concerto in D minor Op.47 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Johan Dalene. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Storg氓rds.
    • Nielsen & Sibelius: Violin Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 203.

Broadcast

  • Sat 13 Apr 2024 09:00
    麻豆约拍 Radio 3