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Govan's local orchestra, composer Amble Skuse & The Violins of Hope

Jamie hears from director of Govan's orchestra The Glasgow Barons and composer Amble Skuse

Jamie talks to the Artistic Director of the Glasgow Barons, Govan鈥檚 Orchestra in Residence and hears about a new online festival Pandemonium. Plus composer Amble Skuse tells Jamie about 鈥榃e Ask These Questions Of Everyone鈥�, her composition that features at Sound Festival this month.

Jamie鈥檚 Album of the Week is titled 鈥榁iolins of Hope鈥� and it features the astonishing story of a handful of instruments owned by Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust. Some instruments escaped Nazi Germany and others were played in the concentration camps. They鈥檝e now been refurbished and brought together in a collection of music and new commissions.

1 hour, 55 minutes

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Sun 24 Jan 2021 21:00
大象传媒 Radio Scotland

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Music Played

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    A Chloris

    Performer: Roger Vignoles. Singer: Susan Graham.
    • Reynaldo Hahn: La Belle Epoque: Graham/Vignoles.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in C Minor, D. 703 "Quartettsatz" (1st mvt)

    Performer: Kay Stern. Performer: Dawn Harms. Performer: Patricia Heller. Performer: Emil Miland.
    • Violins Of Hope.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 801.

  • Laudibus

    Ca' The Yowes

    • All In The April Evening.
    • Helios.
    • 6.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Sea Eagle, Op 103 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Richard Watkins.
    • Richard Watkins: Sea Eagle (Music For Horn).
    • NMC.

  • Jake Heggie

    Intonations (Songs from the Violins of Hope): No. 3 Concert

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Sean Mori. Performer: Kay Stern. Performer: Dawn Harms. Performer: Patricia Heller. Performer: Emil Miland. Author: Gene Scheer. Singer: Sasha Cooke.
    • Violins Of Hope.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 301.

  • John Gardner

    Will Ye Go To The Indies, My Mary

    Author: Robert Burns. Choir: NYCoS.
    • A Burns Sequence Op 213.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Concerto in D major Op.61 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Thomas Zehetmair. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans Br眉ggen.
    • Violin Concerto and Romances (Thomas Zehetmair).
    • DECCA.
    • 005.

  • Robert Burns

    My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Homecoming: A Scottish Fantasy.
    • Decca.
    • 007.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto No 5 in F minor, BWV 1056 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Glenn Gould. Orchestra: Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Golschmann.
    • J.S.Bach: Concertos for Piano and Orchestra nos. 1-5 & 7.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 5.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet No. 6 in F Minor, Op. 80, MWV R 37 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Kay Stern. Performer: Dawn Harms. Performer: Patricia Heller. Performer: Emil Miland.
    • Violins Of Hope.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 1201.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Musical Offering, BWV1079: Ricercar a 6

    Performer: Robert Kohnen. Performer: Barthold Kuijken. Performer: Sigiswald Kuijken. Performer: Wieland Kuijken.
    • J.S.Bach: Ein Musikalisches Opfer.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 9.

  • Sofia Gubaidulina

    Offertorium (Concerto for violin and orchestra)

    Performer: 袨谢械谐 袣褉褘褋邪. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James DePreist.
    • Gubaidulina Offertorium & Freue Dich.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Chanson Ecossaise

    Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Gerald Finley.
    • Ravel: Melodies.
    • Hyperion.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Humoresques Op.87, No.1 in D minor

    Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta.
    • Sibelius: Works for Violin and Orchestra.
    • Ondine.
    • 01.

  • William Sweeney

    Sonata For Cello and Piano (II)

    Performer: Robert Irvine. Performer: Fali Pavri.
    • Sweeney: Tree O' Licht.
    • Delphian.

  • Florence Price

    Symphony No.3 in C minor (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Valentina Peleggi. Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales.
    • Florence Price.

  • Kenneth McKellar

    Bonnie Wee Thing

    • The Songs Of Robert Burns.
    • Dutton Laboratories.

Broadcast

  • Sun 24 Jan 2021 21:00
    大象传媒 Radio Scotland