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Tom Service in conversation with soprano Fatma Said

The Egyptian soprano Fatma Said drops into the Saturday Morning studio to talk about her latest album, Lieder.

Tom Service talks to the acclaimed Egyptian soprano, Fatma Said, ahead of her concert at London's Wigmore Hall and following the release of her latest album, Lieder, on 7 February.

Plus the best classical music and the continuation of 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 we arrive at 2004, with virtuoso sitarist Jasdeep Singh Degun paying tribute to his teacher's teacher, Ustad Vilayat Khan, who died in 2004, aged 75. Degun is joined by the 大象传媒 Philharmonic, sitarist Ustad Dharambir Singh and tabla players Harkiret Bahra and Upneet Singh in a performance of his new work, 础产产丑腻.

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Music Played

  • Johann Strauss II

    Die Fledermaus (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bavarian State Orchestra. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Menuet antique

    Performer: Seong-Jin Cho.
    • Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Cello Concerto in B-Flat Major, H. 436, Wq. 171: III. Allegro assai

    Performer: Jean鈥怗uihen Queyras. Ensemble: Ensemble Resonanz. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.
    • Anton铆n Kraft, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Cello Concertos.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 6.

  • Robert Schumann

    Der Spielmann

    Performer: Saskia Giorgini. Singer: Ian Bostridge.
    • Pentatone.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    African Dance (African Suite)

    Music Arranger: Chris Cameron. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in C major Op.76`3 'Emperor' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op. 76 Nos. 1-3.
    • BIS.
    • 9.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance no.2 in D minor

    Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
    • Brahms: Hungarian Dances.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 2.

  • Maddalena Casulana

    Morir non pu貌 il mio cuore

    Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble.
    • Virgin.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Hexenlied

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Fatma Said.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Franz Schubert

    St盲ndchen 'Z枚gernd leise'

    Performer: Yonatan Cohen. Singer: Fatma Said. Ensemble: MGV Walhalla zum Seidlwirt.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    The Bartered Bride (Overture)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Smetana: The Bartered Bride.
    • Chandos.
    • 101.

  • James Scott Skinner

    Hector the Hero

    Music Arranger: Maxwell String Quartet. Ensemble: Maxwell String Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op. 77 & Folk Music from Scotland.
    • Linn Records.
    • 11.

  • Howard Skempton

    In Tandem

    Ensemble: Noszferatu.
    • NMC.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92: III. Presto - Assai meno presto

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 6-9.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 8.

  • Marin Marais

    Couplets de folies

    Performer: Lucie Horsch. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Lucie Horsch - Baroque Journey.
    • Decca.
    • 12.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Serenade in D Major (Finale)

    Conductor: Joshua Weilerstein. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
    • American and English Orchestral Music.
    • Claves Records.
    • 13.

  • Eric Coates

    Knightsbridge (March - 3rd mvmt of London Every Day Suite)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Coates: Orchestra Works, Vol. 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 15.

  • Jasdeep Singh Degun

    础产产丑腻

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Gernon.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Nights in the gardens of Spain for piano and orchestra [complete/not monitored]

    Conductor: Ludovic Morlot. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Ravel: Piano Concertos; Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain.
    • Hyperion.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Sextet in A major, Op.48 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Veronika Hagen. Performer: Gary Hoffman. Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
    • Dvorak: String Quintet, Op. 97 & String Sextet, Op. 48.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Sat 22 Feb 2025 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3