Tamara Rojo
Michael Berkeley's guest is Spanish-born ballerina Tamara Rojo. Her musical choices include works by Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Bizet, Part Bach and Elgar as well as flamenco music.
Michael Berkeley's guest this week is the Spanish-born dancer Tamara Rojo, who since 2000 has been principal ballerina with the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden. Internationally acclaimed for her outstanding technique, brilliant artistry and acting skills, she has danced a wide range of principal roles with leading ballet companies all over the world, and won the 2010 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production, for her collaboration with choreographer Kim Brandstrup in 'Goldberg:The Brandstrup-Rojo Project'. Other awards include Spain's two highest artistic honours and the Paris International Dance Competition's Gold Medal.
The roles for which Tamara is best known include Coppelia, Odette/Odile (Swan Lake), Clara (Nutcracker), Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), Giselle, Manon, Cinderella, Mary (Mayerling), and especially Juliet in Kenneth MacMillan's 'Romeo and Juliet' which she danced with Carlos Acosta in London's vast O2 arena last June, and which she is currently dancing at Covent Garden.
Articulate and passionate in her advocacy of music, Tamara has chosen pieces by a wide variety of composers for her 'Private Passions', many of which relate to her dancing. She starts with the prologue to Tchaikovsky's 'Swan Lake', followed by the poignant closing section of Mahler's 'Song of the Earth', sung by Janet Baker. Her choices conitnue with a Russian version of 'Carmen', a section of Arvo Part's contemplative 'Spiegel im Spiegel', and one of Bach's Goldberg Variations, played by Murray Perahia. The first movement of Elgar's Cello Concerto, played by Jacqueline du Pre, is followed by tradional Spanish flamenco, reflecting Tamara Rojo's own roots.
First broadcast in February 2012.
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake (Prologue to Act I)
Performers: London Symphony Orchestra/Andr茅 Previn
- EMI CDS 749531-2.
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Gustav Mahler
The Song of the Earth [Das Lied von der Erde] (end of last song, Der Abschied)
Performers: Janet Baker (mezzo soprano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Bernard Haitink
- PHILIPS 432 279-2.
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Rodion Shchedrin
Torero and Carmen (from Carmen Suite)
Performers: Russian National Orchestra/Mikhael Pletnev
- DG 471 136-2.
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Arvo P盲rt
Spiegel im Spiegel
Performers: Tasmin Little (violin), Martin Roscoe (piano)
- VIRGIN VTDCD408.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Variation 25 (from the Goldberg Variations)
Performers: Murray Perahia (piano)
- SONY SK 89243.
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Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto in E minor (first movement)
Performers: Jacqueline Du Pr茅 (cello), LSO/John Barbirolli
- EMI 567341-2.
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Granada
Performers: Paco de Lucia, Andres Battista and Maolo San Lucar (guitars)
- DIVUCSA MUSIC 2197.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake (Act 1, Prologue)
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Gustav Mahler
Der Abschied (Das Lied von der Erde)
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Rodion Shchedrin
Torero & Carmen (Carmen Suite)
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Arvo P盲rt
Spiegel im Spiegel
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Goldberg Variations (Variation No.25)
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Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto in E minor (1st mvt)
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Granada
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- Sun 8 Jan 2012 12:00大象传媒 Radio 3
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