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Purcell School Musicians, Nicola Benedetti

Presented by Sean Rafferty. With music from students at the Purcell School for Young Musicians, which celebrates its 50th anniversary, and violinist Nicola Benedetti.

Students at the Purcell School for Young Musicians, which celebrates its 50th anniversary, will be performing works by Brahms, Prokofiev and Francaix live in the studio. Their director of music Oliver Poole joins Sean Raffety in the studio to talk about their celebratory concert at the Royal Festival Hall.

The violinist Nicola Benedetti, cellist Leonard Elschenbroich and pianist Alexei Grynyuk play Schumann's Trio No. 3 and Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio on In Tune ahead of their upcoming lunchtime concerts at LSO St Luke's.

Jonathan Dove's new opera 'Life's A Dream' receives its world premiere shortly with the Birmingham Opera company. The opera's director Graham Vick and its composer will be talking to Sean about the brand new production.

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2 hours

Music Played

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Aida: Act II, Sc.II ballet music

    Performer: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Performer: Conducted by Jose Serebrier

    • NAXOS 8.572818-19.
  • LIVE

    • Jean Fran莽aix

      Wind quintet No.1: i. Andante tranquillo 鈥 allegro assai

      Performer: Daniel Shao (flute) Performer: Lavinia Redman (oboe) Performer: Ji-Young Yoon (clarinet) Performer: Charlotte Silver (french horn) Performer: Fiona Russell (bassoon)

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      Sonata for two violins: i. Andante cantabile, ii. Allegro

      Performer: Filip Cwizewicz (violin) Performer: Cheuk Nam Tse (violin)

    • Johannes Brahms

      Hungarian Dances for piano duet: No. 1 in G minor; No. 5 in F-sharp minor

      Performer: Melina Karagianni (piano) Performer: Alexandra Gracheva (piano)

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Second movement of Symphonic Dances (Op.45)

    Performer: Toulouse Capitole Orchestra Performer: Conducted by Tugan Sokhiev

    • NA脧VE V5256.
  • Claude Debussy

    Flots, Palmes, Sables

    Performer: Natalie Dessay (soprano) Performer: Catherine Michel (harp) Performer: Philippe Cassard (piano)

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS 7307682.
  • LIVE

    • Robert Schumann

      Trio No.3, second movement

      Performer: Nicola Benedetti (violin) Performer: Leonard Elschenbroich (cello) Performer: Alexei Grynyuk (piano)

    • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Trio, second movement (Theme and Variations)

      Performer: Nicola Benedetti (violin) Performer: Leonard Elschenbroich (cello) Performer: Alexei Grynyuk (piano)

  • Edward Elgar

    Nimrod, Variation 9 from Enigma Variations

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Carl Davis

    • 大象传媒 WMEF 0051-2.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Gesang der Parzen [Song of the Fates](Op.89)

    Performer: Collegium Vocale Gent Performer: Orchestre des Champs-Elysees Performer: Conducted by Philippe Herreweghe

    • OUTHERE LPH003.
  • Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier - Fete Polonaise from Le Roi Malgre Lui

    Performer: Toulouse Capitole Orchestra Performer: Conducted by Michel Plasson

  • Jonathan Dove

    Life's A Dream: Act I, extract

    Performer: Eric Greene (Seigismund) Performer: Sergei Rybin (piano)

    • Birmingham Opera Rehearsal Recording.
  • Jonathan Dove

    Descending A Mountain there are many things to listen to鈥 (from Tobias and The Angel)

    Performer: Omar Ebrahim (Tobias) Performer: The Young Vic Chorus and Ensemble Performer: Conducted by David Charles Abell

    • CHANDOS CHAN10606.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Sinfonia 'Scritta al Conventello' D major

    Performer: I Filarmonici Del Teatro Comunale Di Bologna Performer: Riccardo Chailly

    • Decca 436 832-2.

Broadcast

  • Mon 12 Mar 2012 16:30

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