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Tom Service chats to Ren茅e Fleming

Tom Service plays the best classical music, and star soprano Ren茅e Fleming talks to Tom about her career.

Tom Service is joined by star soprano Ren茅e Fleming ahead of her performance with the London Philharmonic Orchestra on 5 March.
Current Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Julius Asal, drops into the Saturday Morning studio to perform Ravel and Scriabin ahead of Radio 3's New Generation Artist day, celebrating 25 years of the scheme on Monday 03 March. And trumpeter Alison Balsom speaks to Tom about being an NGA artist near the start of her career.

Plus Tom continues Radio 3's series 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century 鈥� a series of brand new commissions marking the 21st century thus far. Today, Tom premieres the Finnish composer Sauli Zinovjev's work, Trial and Error, which reflects on the trial of Saddam Hussein, shared widely on the newly launched You Tube in 2005.

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Music Played

  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    Moto perpetuo in C major, Op 11

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Boston Symphony Orchestra - Great Recordings.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 62.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Sinfonietta in A major Op.48, rev. from Op.5: 1st mvt; Allegro giocoso

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dima Slobodeniouk.
    • Poulenc, Prokofiev & Britten: Sinfoniettas.
    • BIS.
    • 5.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Laudate pueri Dominum (Vespro della Beata Vergine)

    Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • C. Monteverdi : Vespro della Beata Vergine - 1610: Christina Pluhar/L'Arpeggiata.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 4.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto No.2 in E major, BWV 1053 - 1st mvt

    Performer: Beatrice Rana. Orchestra: Amsterdam Sinfonietta. Conductor: Candida Thompson.
    • Warner.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quintet No. 1 in A major, Op. 18 II Intermezzo

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Alice Mary Smith

    Symphony in A minor (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • CHANDOS.

  • C茅sar Franck

    Violin Sonata in A Major M.8 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Cesar Franck:聽Sonata for Piano and Violin - Ernest Chausson: Concert.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 4.

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Performer: Thomas Klug. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Alison Balsom.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

  • Joe Hisaishi

    My Neighbour Totoro Suite

    Ensemble: M膿la Guitar Quartet.
    • TRPTK.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Don Giovanni / Act II: Non mi dir, bell'idol mio (Live at the MET)

    Performer: Ren茅e Fleming. Orchestra: Metropolitan Opera. Conductor: James Levine.
    • Decca.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude and fugue no.5 in D major Op.87 no.5

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • Sony.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No.104 in D "London" (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Director: Richard Tognetti.
    • Haydn 鈥� Mozart.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 12.

  • Sauli Zinovjev

    Trial and Error

    Performer: Santiago Ca帽贸n-Valencia. Performer: Johannes Piirto.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 - III. Adagio

    Conductor: Kirill Petrenko. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Berlin Philharmonic.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Pr茅lude, M.65, + Asal Improvisation (on Ravel)

    Performer: Julius Asal.

  • Alexander Scriabin

    Pr茅lude in E-flat minor op 16/4, + Asal Transition II

    Performer: Julius Asal.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Quintet in B flat major Op.34 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in Major, K. 581 - Weber: Clarinet Quintet in B-Flat Ma.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 103.

  • Johann Strauss II

    An der schonen blauen Donau, Walzer, Op. 314

    • Neujahrskonzert 2025 / New Year's Concert 2025 / Concert du Nouvel An 2025.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 8.

  • Paul Mealor

    Ubi Caritas

    Performer: Tom Fetherstonhaugh. Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Choir: Choir of Her Majesty's Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. Conductor: James O鈥橠onnell.
    • Her Majesty's Music: Music for Rememberance.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 38.

  • Francesco Maria Veracini

    Concerto for eight instruments in D major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Chouchane Siranossian. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.
    • Alpha.

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  • Sat 1 Mar 2025 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3