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Jazz pianist and composer Tom Donald with some musical mischief

Tom Donald opens up a selection of classical music from a pianist and composer’s point of view - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light.

Pianist and composer Tom Donald takes us on a journey inside a range of music choices - revealing his insights into both familiar and unfamiliar works, and discovers C-major hugs, and desert landscape semitones along the way.

Plus a composer whose music can give you hay fever, how to start playing jazz piano, and a musician who squeezes all of the juice from the orange!

A series in which each week a musician reveals a selection of music - from the inside.

1 hour, 56 minutes

Music Played

  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    Eight Concert Etudes, Op. 40 (VI. Pastoral)

    Performer: Yeol Eum Son.
    • ONYX.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto No. 4 in F minor, 'Winter' RV 297 (II. Largo)

    Performer: Dmitry Sinkovsky. Ensemble: La Voce Strumentale.
    • NAIVE.
  • Colin Spiers

    Divertimento for Strings (I. Allegro)

    Orchestra: Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ponkin.
    • ABC CLASSICS.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 No. 1

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • WARNER.
  • Mariah Parker

    Tenth Journey

    Performer: Matthew Montfort. Performer: Paul McCandless. Singer: Kash Killion.
    • ANCIENT-FUTURE.COM RECORDS.
  • David Fanshawe

    Kyrie 'Call to Prayer', Cairo (African Santus)

    Singer: Field Recording. Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes.
    • SAYDISC.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 38, 'Prague' (I. Adagio - Allegro)

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • DECCA.
  • Miriam Hyde

    Spring

    Performer: Miriam Hyde.
    • WIRRIPANG.
  • Georgs PelÄ“cis

    Flowering Jasmine

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Ensemble: Kremerata Baltica.
    • NONESUCH.
  • Miles Davis

    Saeta

    • COLUMBIA.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 5 (I. Trauermarsch)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.
  • Tom Donald

    Symphony of Voices (I. 'Vanhu': People Places)

    Choir: Citizens of the World Choir. Director: Tom Donald.
    • THAMES INTERNATIONAL.
  • Anon.

    Magnificat

    Ensemble: Monks of Pluscarden Abbey.
    • FFIN RECORDS.
  • Alanna Crouch

    ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ (Princess Emma)

    Performer: Oleg Bezuglov. Ensemble: Ars Longa Chamber Soloists.
    • SELF-RELEASED.
  • The Oscar Peterson Trio

    Hymn to Freedom

    • VERVE RECORDS.

Broadcast

  • Sat 18 Jun 2022 13:00

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