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James Pearson and Sam Burgess, Rachel Portman, Giles Terera and James Dacre

Sean Rafferty is joined by pianist James Pearson and double bassist Sam Burgess, playing live. Sean chats to Rachel Portman, Giles Terera and James Dacre, plus poet Ian McMillan.

Sean Rafferty is joined by pianist James Pearson, artistic director at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, playing live in the studio with bassist Sam Burgess, ahead of their appearance at the Music@Malling Festival next weekend. And composer Rachel Portman, actor Giles Terera and theatre director James Dacre tell Sean about a new project setting famous texts from plays to newly commissioned pieces of music. Poet Ian McMillan looks ahead to Contains Strong Language, happening in Coventry this weekend.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no.3 in A minor, Op.56 'Scottish' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol.2.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Cole Porter

    Let's Do It

    Performer: James Pearson. Performer: Sam Burgess.
  • Charles鈥怣arie Widor

    Toccata (Symphony No.5 in F minor)

    Performer: Wayne Marshall.
    • The Virtuoso Organist: Wayne Marshall.
    • EMI.
    • 14.
  • Ji艡铆 Anton铆n Benda

    Concerto for keyboard in G major; 1st mvt - non tanto allegro

    Performer: Howard Shelley. Performer: London Mozart Players.
    • The Classical Piano Concerto series.
    • HYPERION.
    • 07.
  • Cole Porter

    So In Love

    Performer: James Pearson. Performer: Sam Burgess.
  • Cole Porter

    You Do Something To Me

    Performer: James Pearson. Performer: Sam Burgess.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 'American' - final movement

    Performer: Sacconi Quartet.
    • Sacconi Records.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    March (English Folk Song Suite)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • HMV.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in E flat major, Op 31 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: James Rhodes.
    • Bullets & Lullabies; James Rhodes.
    • Warner.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite no.4 in D major BWV.1069 (Overture)

    Ensemble: La Petite Bande. Director: Sigiswald Kuijken.
    • Bach: The Orchestral Suites.
    • Accent.
    • 20.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Trovatore: Di quella pira l' orrendo foco (Act 3)

    Singer: Giuseppe Di Stefano. Singer: Renato Ercolani. Choir: Chorus of La Scala, Milan. Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Il Trovatore.
    • EMI.
    • 8.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Le Tombeau de Couperin (Toccata)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • decca.
  • Rachel Portman

    Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities (incidental music)

    Narrator: Judi Dench. Narrator: Joseph Timms. Narrator: Douglas Hodge. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • FilmTrax.
  • Valgeir Sigurosson

    Incidental Music for Shakespeare's "The Tempest"

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Narrator: Giles Terera.
    • FilmTrax.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 104 in D major, 'London' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Orchestra of St. Luke鈥檚. Performer: Charles Mackerras.
    • Everybody's Haydn Symphonies 100, 101, 103, & 104.
    • TELARC.
    • 5.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Septet in E flat major Op.65 (4th mvt)

    Performer: David Guerrier. Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Esther Hoppe. Performer: B茅atrice Muthelet. Performer: Gautier Capu莽on. Performer: Janne Saksala. Performer: Frank Braley.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Gabriel Jackson

    To Morning

    Choir: The Rodolfus Choir. Conductor: Ralph Allwood.
    • Signum Classics: SIGCD445.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 3.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in G major, Kk.455

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • DG.

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  • Fri 24 Sep 2021 17:00

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