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French baroque music and highlights from Northern Ireland's Glenarm Festival

Tom McKinney showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including highlights from the the Glenarm Festival of Voice.

Tom McKinney showcases the best performances by 鶹Լ orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.

This week on Classical Live, there is a focus on both French baroque and classical music. SEMPRE baroque music ensemble perform music by Forqueray and Rameau from Bucharest, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande perform Ravel's Alborada del gracioso, and Leipzig Gewandhaus perform one of the greatest symphonies in the French tradition, Chausson's Symphony in B-flat.

Also in today's programme, a specially recorded performance from baritone Ben McAteer and pianist Michael Pandya at the Glenarm Festival of Voice. An annual celebration of singing which takes place in the historic coastal village of Glenarm, Co. Antrim.

Antoine Forqueray
Excerpts from 'Pièces de Viole / Pièces de Viole mises en Pièces de Clavecin'
SEMPRE baroque music ensemble
Mira Glodeanu (director)

Jean-Philippe Rameau
Chaconne, from 'Les Indes galantes'
SEMPRE baroque music ensemble
Mira Glodeanu (director)

Jean-Philippe Rameau
In convertendo, grand motet
Schola Santorum Basiliensis Vocal Ensemble
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Instrumental Ensemble
Jörg-Andreas Bötticher (conductor)

Ernest Chausson
Symphony in Bb
Leipzig Gewandhaus
Tugan Sokhiev (conductor)

Maurice Ravel
Alborada del gracioso
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Tugan Sokhiev (conductor)

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Glenarm Festival of Voice

Charles Villiers Stanford
Songs of the Sea Op.91

Edward Grieg
6 Lieder Op.48

Frederick Delius
Cynara

Peter Warlock
Late Summer

Charles Villiers Stanford
A Soft Day

Peter Warlock
Yarmouth Fair

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Linden Lea

Peter Warlock
Captain Stratton’s Fancy

Hamilton Harty
My Lagan Love

Ben McAteer (baritone)
Michael Pandya (piano)

21 days left to listen

2 hours, 58 minutes

Music Played

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Songs of the Sea, Op.91

    Performer: Michael Pandya. Singer: Ben McAteer.
  • Peter Warlock

    Late Summer

    Performer: Michael Pandya. Singer: Ben McAteer.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    A Soft Day

    Performer: Michael Pandya. Singer: Ben McAteer.
  • Peter Warlock

    Yarmouth Fair

    Performer: Michael Pandya. Singer: Ben McAteer.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Linden Lea

    Performer: Michael Pandya. Singer: Ben McAteer.
  • Peter Warlock

    Captain Stratton's Fancy

    Performer: Michael Pandya. Singer: Ben McAteer.
  • Adam Saunders

    Fairytale Sleighride

    Performer: Hallé. Conductor: Stephen Bell.
  • Antoine Forqueray

    Excerpts from 'Pièces de Viole / Pièces de Viole mises en Pièces de Clavecin'

    Ensemble: SEMPRE baroque music ensemble. Director: Mira Glodeanu.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Les Indes galantes, Chaconne

    Ensemble: SEMPRE baroque music ensemble. Director: Mira Glodeanu.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Example of a Christmas Carol in the Italian Style

    Performer: Alessandro Marangoni.
    • Naxos.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    In convertendo, grand motet

    Ensemble: Concert Ensemble of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Conductor: Jörg-Andreas Bötticher.
  • Ernest Chausson

    Symphony in B flat, Op. 20

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Tugan Sokhiev.
  • Frederick Delius

    Cynara

    Performer: Ben McAteer. Performer: Michael Pandya.
  • Edvard Grieg

    6 Lieder, Op.48

    Performer: Michael Pandya. Singer: Ben McAteer.
  • Sir Hamilton Harty

    My Lagan Love

    Performer: Michael Pandya. Singer: Ben McAteer.
  • Chiara Margarita Cozzolani

    Magnificat (Vespers)

    Ensemble: I Gemelli. Conductor: Emiliano Gonzalez‐Toro.
    • NAIVE.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Tugan Sokhiev.

Broadcast

  • Thu 12 Dec 2024 13:00