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Internationally acclaimed pianist, Alice Sara Ott, performs live

Tom Service talks to German-Japanese pianist, Alice Sara Ott.

Described by the New York Times as "a force for change in classical music", pianist Alice Sara Ott talks to Tom Service about her new album of nocturnes by the Irish-born composer John Field. Alice performs in the studio and discusses the unique atmosphere of Field's music and how it connects with works by Beethoven and Mozart.

Ahead of its UK premiere, composer James MacMillan talks to Tom about his new setting of Hildegard of Bingen鈥檚 morality play, Ordo Virtutum. We also hear from composers Laura Cannell and Heloise Werner, and guitartist Sean Shibe, about what Hildegard means to them and why her music resonates, nearly a thousand years after it was written.

And we launch the latest piece for 大象传媒 Radio 3鈥檚 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century 鈥� a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. This week, Orcadian composer Erland Cooper reflects on the natural world in the 21st century and pays tribute to David Attenborough, whose landmark series Planet Earth and Life of Mammals brought it to record numbers of viewers in the early 2000s. Erland joins Tom in the studio to talk about his new piece.

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Music Played

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    L'茅toile (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Chabrier: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/Neeme Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.

  • Max Bruch

    Double Concerto for Clarinet and Viola with Orchestra, Op. 88: 2nd movement

    Performer: Roeland Hendrikx. Performer: Sander Geerts. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Dedications - Works for Clarinet & Orchestra.
    • Evil Penguin Classic.
    • 8.

  • Johannes Brahms

    5 Lieder, Op.105: no.1 Wie Melodien zieht es mir (Version with Harp)

    Performer: Anneleen Lenaerts. Singer: Fatma Said.
    • Lieder.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 12.

  • Jean鈥怓茅ry Rebel

    Les caracteres de la danse

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Rebel/Les Elemens/Les Caracteres de la Danse.
    • Musifrance.
    • 12-25.

  • John Adams

    Nixon in China, Act III: "I Am Old and I Cannot Sleep"

    Lyricist: Alice Goodman. Singer: Sanford Sylvan. Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke鈥檚. Conductor: Edo de Waart.
    • Earbox.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 22.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata in F major, Op 24, 'Spring'

    Performer: Aleksey Semenenko. Performer: Inna Firsova.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique Op.14 (Un Bal)

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 102.

  • Laura Cannell

    The Rituals of Hildegard

    • Brawl Records.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O choruscans lux stellarum

    Performer: Sean Shibe. Music Arranger: Sean Shibe.
    • Lost & Found.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 114.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O vis eternitatis (Arr. for voice and strings)

    Performer: Colin Alexander. Music Arranger: H茅lo茂se Werner. Music Arranger: Colin Alexander. Singer: H茅lo茂se Werner.
    • Close-Ups.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 5.

  • James MacMillan

    Ordo Virtutum

    Composer: Hildegard von Bingen. Choir: MDR Leipzig Radio Choir.

  • Claude Debussy

    La fille aux cheveux de lin (Preludes, Book 1)

    Performer: Jeneba Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • La fille aux cheveux de lin.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise

    Performer: Robert Jordan. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Gernon.
    • Peter Maxwell Davies - An Orkney Wedding With Sunrise and other works.
    • LINN.
    • 9.

  • Emile Debraux

    Les Relieurs

    Ensemble: Les Lunaisiens.
    • La Com茅die Humaine: Chansons balzaciennes.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 3.

  • John Field

    Nocturne No. 9 in E Minor, H. 46

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Moonlight Piano Sonata No 14 in C sharp minor Op. 27 No.2, 1st mvt

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan i Lyudmila (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Bernard Haitink - A Portrait.
    • DECCA.
    • 79.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto for Flute, Violin and Cello, TWV 53:A2: 3rd and 4th mvts

    Ensemble: Verit脿 Baroque.
    • The German Album.
    • Evil Penguin Classic.
    • 6-7.

  • Claire M Singer

    Wrangham

    Performer: Claire M Singer.
    • Solas.
    • TOUCH.
    • 6.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no. 2 in D major Op.43: 1st mvt; Allegretto

    Orchestra: Minnesota Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.
    • BIS.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Ah! fors' e lui (La Traviata, Act 1)

    Composer: Giuseppe Verdi. Singer: Lisette Oropesa. Singer: Lisette Oropesa. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Conductor: Antonello Manacorda. Conductor: Antonello Manacorda.

  • Luise Adolpha Le Beau

    Piano Quartet in F minor, Op 28 (2nd mvt, Adagio)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

  • William Walton

    Portsmouth Point

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Erland Cooper

    Birds of Paradise

    Performer: Freya Goldmark. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jack Sheen.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Cantata no.140)

    Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Director: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S. Bach: Cantatas 52: Bach Collegium Japan/Suzuki.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Rosamunde (Entr'acte no.3 in B flat major)

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • BIS.

Broadcast

  • Sat 8 Feb 2025 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3