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Wednesday - Clemency Burton-Hill

Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 20 Favourite Voices and listener requests.

Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Also, as part of "Classical Voice", we are featuring Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 20 Favourite Voices. Each day, during the 20 days of the Classical Voice season, Dame Kiri, drawing on her own experience, selects a singer and illustrates in music - explaining in an entertaining and simple way - why she's selected this voice as one of her favourites.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 17 Jun 2015 06:30

Music Played

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D major Kk.430

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • D. Scarlatti: Sonatas: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 16.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    Sinfonia in A major, Op 35 No 3 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Boccherini: Fandango, Sinfonie & La Musica Notturna di Madrid: Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 10.
  • Robert Schumann

    Quartet for piano, violin, viola and cello in Eb Op. 47: 4th movt; Finale - Vivace

    Performer: Glenn Gould. Ensemble: Members of the Juillard String Quartet.

    SMK 52 684

    • Sony.
  • Gustav Holst

    St Paul's Suite Op 29`2 (Finale; The Dargason)

    Orchestra: Scottish Ensemble. Conductor: Jonathan Rees.
    • Wilson: St Kentigern Suite: Scottish Ensemble, Jonathan Rees.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 23.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg concerto no.2 in F major BWV.1047

    Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music.
    • J.S. Bach: Orchestral Music: Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 4.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Le Corsaire

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Berlioz: Overtures: London Symphony Orchestra/Davis.
    • Philips.
    • 5.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Laudate Dominum 脿 5

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale Vol.1: The Sixteen/Christophers.
    • Coro.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Elegie, Op. 24

    Performer: Paul Tortelier. Performer: Jean Hubeau.
    • 229245 660 2.
    • Erato.
  • Frank Bridge

    The Story of My Heart (2 Poems of Richard Jefferies)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    24 Caprices for violin solo (Op.1), no.9 in E major; La Chasse

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos.
    • Paganini: 24 Capricci: Leonidas Kavacos.
    • Dynamic.
    • 9.
  • Steve Reich

    Music for mallet instruments, voices and organ

    Performer: James Preiss. Performer: Steve Chambers. Performer: Russell Hartenberger.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Johannes Brahms

    4 Pieces for piano (Op.119), no.4; Rhapsodie in E flat major

    Performer: Dmitri Alexeev.
    • Brahms: Piano music: Dmitri Alexeev.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 10.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony no.10 in E minor, Op.93 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphonies, Vol. 4 - Symphony No. 10: Royal Liverpool Philh.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Concert en sextuor for strings no. 1 transc. anon. from "Pieces de clavecin ...

    Orchestra: Les Talens Lyriques. Director: Christophe Rousset.
    • Rameau: Six Concerts en Sextuor: Les Talens Lyriques/Rousset.
    • Decca.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no. 25 in G minor K.183: 1st movement; Allegro con brio

    Orchestra: Le Cercle de l'Harmonie. Conductor: J茅r茅mie Rhorer.
    • Virgin.
  • Charles-Valentin Alkan

    Symphonie for piano, Op 39 (Finale)

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Alkan: Symphony for Solo Piano, Trois Morceaux, Marc-Andre Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
  • Tom谩s Luis de Victoria

    O lux et decus Hispaniae

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Singer: Elin Manahan Thomas. Singer: Grace Davidson. Singer: Samuel Evans. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Santiago a cappella; Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 5.
  • Duke Ellington

    Don't Get Around Much Anymore

    Performer: Martin Taylor. Performer: St茅phane Grappelli.
    • We've got the whole world on a string: Grappelli/Taylor.
    • EMI.
    • 2.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Saul og David (Act 2: Prelude)

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Carol Nielsen: Orchestral Music: DNSO, Dausgaard.
    • Dacapo.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Jephtha: Overture ([Grave] - Allegro - [Grave])

    Orchestra: The King鈥檚 Consort. Conductor: Robert King.
    • Your Tuneful Voice.
    • VIVAT.
    • 5.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    La Boheme 鈥 Act 1: Che Gelida Manina

    Singer: Jos茅 Carreras. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • 416 492-2.
    • Philips.
  • Paule Maurice

    Tableaux de Provence (V. Lou Cabridan)

    Performer: Claude Delangle. Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lan Shui.
    • Under The Sign of the Sun.
    • BIS.
    • 10.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in G major, H XV 25, 'Gypsy' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Gautier Capu莽on.
    • Live from the Lugano Festival 2003, Martha Argerich and friends, Chamber Music.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.
  • Franz Schubert

    La Pastorella, D528

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • 440 297-2.
    • DECCA.

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