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16/11/2011 Peggy Seeger, Mid Wales Opera, Stephen Hough, Steven Isserlis

Presented by Suzy Klein. With music from folk music star Peggy Seeger, plus Clare Williams of Mid Wales Opera, pianist Stephen Hough and cellist Steven Isserlis.

Legendary folk singer and musician Peggy Seeger performs live in the studio. Peggy chats to presenter Suzy Klein about her incredible career as a songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist ahead of her upcoming performance at Kings Place.

Suzy also talks to Mid Wales Opera director Clare Williams about her production of Noah's Flood involving over a thousand young people. Plus pianist Stephen Hough and cellist Steven Isserlis visit the In Tune studio to discuss music, life and their upcoming projects.

"My Essential Symphony" continues with the TV presenter Penny Smith.

Exclusive to In Tune, "My Essential Symphony" features a range of advocates sharing their thoughts on a particular symphony, running throughout a month of programmes celebrating the Symphony across Radio 3 and ´óÏó´«Ã½4 television and also featuring Rufus Wainwright, James Naughtie, Will Self, Alan Hollinghurst, Lady Antonia Fraser, Alexander Armstrong, Penny Smith, Sandi Toksvig & Joan Armatrading.

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Suzy Klein welcomes listeners to the In Tune salon, with live performance in the studio, emerging young talent and well-known musicians plus the arts news.
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2 hours

Music Played

  • Jean Sibelius

    KareliaOp. 11: Alla marcia

    Performer: Helsinki Radio Symphony Orchestra Performer: Okku Kamu

    • DG 469 202-2.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Oriental Dance Op. 2 No. 2

    Performer: Stephen Hough Performer: Steven Isserlis

    • Hyperion CDA67376.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Noye's Fludde – Lord Jesus, Think On Me

    Performer: City of London Sinfonia Performer: Richard Hickox

    • Virgin 5611222.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Welche Wonne, welche Lust from Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail

    Performer: Lucia Popp Performer: Josef Krips Performer: Wiener Philharmoniker

    • EMI 6407342.
  • Robert Schumann

    String Quartet Op. 41 No. 1 in A minor – 4th movement

    Performer: Gringolts Quartet

    • ONYX 4081.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    The Great Gate of Kiev – from Pictures at an Exhibition

    Performer: Fazil Say

    • Naïve V5199.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Winter: 2nd movement Largo (The Rain) from the Four Seasons

    Performer: Anne-Sophie Mutter Performer: Trondheim Soloists

    • DG 463 259-2.
  • LIVE

    • Peggy Seeger

      Occupation is on

      Performer: Peggy Seeger

    • Peggy Seeger

      You don't know how lucky you are

      Performer: Peggy Seeger

    • Peggy Seeger

      Once Again

      Performer: Peggy Seeger

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 8: 1st movement

    Performer: Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique Performer: John Eliot Gardiner

    • ARCHIVE 439 900-2.
  • Marcello

    Veggio Fille

    Performer: Philippe Jarousky Performer: Max Emmanuel Cencic Performer: Les Arts Florisants Performer: William Christie

    • Virgin Classics 50999070944323.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in C sharp minor Op. 64 No. 2

    Performer: Stephen Hough

    • Hyperion CDA67849.
  • Sir Stephen Hough

    The Loneliest Wilderness

    Performer: Steven Isserlis Performer: Tapiola Sinfonietta Performer: Gabor Takacs-Nagy

    • BIS CD1952.
  • Ernest Bloch

    From Jewish Life – Jewish Song

    Performer: Steven Isserlis Performer: Moscow Virtuosi Performer: Vladimir Spivakov

    • RCA 09026 61966 2.

Broadcast

  • Wed 16 Nov 2011 16:30

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