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Pianist Gabriela Montero drops in

Tom Service has the perfect classical soundtrack to start your weekend! Plus pianist Gabriela Montero and composer Thea Musgrave are in the studio to talk about their musical lives

Tom Service with guests, stories and the perfect classical soundtrack to start your weekend!

Venezuelan pianist and composer Gabriela Montero is known for her sensitive playing, incredible improvisations and increasingly her larger scale compositions. But she's also an advocate for using music for cultural and political change. She talks to Tom about how all this affects her creative life today

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, Arowah remembers the year 2003 and the Peace Rally against the Iraq war, where an estimated 1.5 million people gathered in London alone.

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B minor BWV.232 (Sanctus)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach: Mass in B Minor.
    • SDG.
    • 9.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Invierno porteno

    Performer: Gidon Kremer.
    • Eight Seasons: Astor Piazzolla - Four Seasons of Buenos Aires; Vivaldi - Four Se.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 12.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Nocturne No.8 in D flat major, op.27 no.2

    Performer: Jeneba Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Sony.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphonic Dances, Op. 45: I. Non allegro

    Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥� Philharmonie.
    • Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3, Symphonic Dances.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.

  • Claude Debussy

    Passepied (Suite bergamasque)

    Performer: Punch Brothers.
    • The Phosphorescent Blues.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 3.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony in D Major, K. 385 "Haffner-Sinfonie": I. Allegro con spirito

    Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien.
    • Mozart: Symphony No. 35, K. 320 "Haffner" & Serenade No. 9, K. 385 "Posthorn".
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.

  • Hilary Kleinig

    Great White Bird

    Ensemble: Zephyr Quartet.
    • Navona Records.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Confitebor tibi, Domine (Selva morale e spirituale)

    Ensemble: Cantus C枚lln. Ensemble: Concerto Palatino. Conductor: Konrad Jungh盲nel.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 "Classical"

    Conductor: Andrew Litton. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. 1-3.
    • BIS.
    • 101.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sheep may safely graze

    Music Arranger: Gabriela Montero. Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • Gabriela Montero - Bach and Beyond.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 8.

  • Gabriela Montero

    Mi Venezuela llora

    Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • Solatino.
    • EMI.
    • 027.

  • Gabriela Montero

    Piano Concerto no 1 'Latin Concerto'

    Performer: Gabriela Montero. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marta Gardoli艅ska.
    • SESR.

  • William Byrd

    Ne irascaris Domine a 5 (Cantiones Sacrae, 1589): I. Ne irascaris Domine

    Lyricist: Anonymous. Conductor: Owain Park. Choir: The Gesualdo Six.
    • English Motets: From Dunstaple to Gibbons.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.

  • Giovanni Sollima

    Igiul

    Performer: Abel Selaocoe. Ensemble: Manchester Collective.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 114, D 667 - "The Trout" - III.Scherzo

    Performer: Anne鈥怱ophie Mutter. Performer: Daniil Trifonov. Performer: Hwayoon Lee. Performer: Maximilian Hornung. Performer: Roman Patkol贸.
    • Schubert: Forellenquintett - Trout Quintet.
    • DG.
    • 3.

  • Meredith Monk

    Ellis Island

    Performer: James McVinnie. Music Arranger: James McVinnie.
    • Pentatone.

  • Leone Sinigaglia

    Rapsodia piemontese for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 26

    Performer: Noah Bendix-Balgley. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.
    • Mozart - Sinigaglia.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings.
    • 5.

  • Henryk Miko艂aj G贸recki

    Symphony No 3, Op 36 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' (2nd mvt)

    Singer: Dawn Upshaw. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Gorecki: Symphony No. 3: Dawn Upshaw.
    • Elektra Nonesuch.

  • James Lauder

    My Lord of Marche Paven / Galliard: Or Voy-Je Bien

    Composer: Nicolas de la Grotte. Composer: Nicolas de la Grotte.
    • Revenge of the Folksingers.
    • Delphian.
    • 4.

  • Thea Musgrave

    Mary Queen of Scots - Opening of Act 1

    Orchestra: Virginia Opera Association Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Mark.
    • Novello.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Coriolan Overture

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.

  • Arowah

    In this World of War, Peace is What We're Fighting For

    Performer: Emma Rawicz. Performer: Lorenz Okello-Osengor. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: George Morton.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Polka in A major

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • Smetana: Polkas: Andras Schiff.
    • Teldec.
    • 8.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 - 1st mvt

    Performer: Jiyoon Lee. Orchestra: Odense Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Kristiina Poska.
    • Orchid.

Broadcast

  • Sat 15 Feb 2025 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3