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Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musician, including Tabea Debus (recorder) and Tom Foster (harpsichord), plus pianist Elena Fischer-Dieskau.

Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians. Today's line-up includes Tabea Debus (recorder) and Tom Foster (harpsichord), plus pianist Elena Fischer-Dieskau.

Including ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3’s 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century – a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. In Birds of Paradise for the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scottish Symphony Orchestra and violinist Freya Goldmark, 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.

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Music Played

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 1 in G minor

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Brahms - The Symphonies.
    • Decca.
    • 25.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet in F Minor, Op. 2: I. Allegro energico

    Ensemble: Chineke! Chamber Ensemble.
    • Chamber Music Highlights (Edinburgh International Festival).
    • Linn Records.
    • 1.
  • Erland Cooper

    Birds of Paradise

    Performer: Freya Goldmark. Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jack Sheen.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Gigue from French Suite No.2

    Performer: Tabea Debus.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Masquerade Suite (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Khachaturian: Piano Concerto etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Max Reger

    Romance in G major, Op 50 No 1

    Performer: Tanja Becker-Bender. Orchestra: Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Conductor: Lothar Zagrosek.
    • HYPERION.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    2nd mvt of Flute Sonata in B minor BWV 1030

    Performer: Tabea Debus. Performer: Tom Foster.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    3rd and 4th mvts of Sonata in A minor, Op.6 No. 6

    Performer: Tabea Debus. Performer: Tom Foster.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Rondeau (Les biches)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Paris 1920: Orchestre de Paris/Semyon Bychkov.
    • Philips.
    • 2.
  • Richard Wagner

    Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Prelude)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Enrique Bátiz.
    • Orchestral Lollipops: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Enrique Batiz.
    • RPO.
    • 14.
  • Clara Schumann

    Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann: Theme and Var. 1, 3. 2

    Performer: Elena Fischer-Dieskau.
  • Benjamin Britten

    The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Fugue)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • Das Orchester for Kids. Prokofiev: Peter und der Wolf - Britten: Orchesterführer.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 160.
  • Plainchant.Sarum

    Alma redemptoris mater [Sarum Rite]

    Singer: Stephen Tilton.
    • HERALD.
  • William Lawes

    Consort Suite à 6 No 3 in F major, 'Sunrise' (Air)

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ave verum corpus

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • The Music of King's: Choral Favourites from Cambridge.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 6.
  • Mel Bonis

    Nos 1, 2, 3 from Femmes de légende: Mélisande, Desdémona, Ophélie

    Performer: Elena Fischer-Dieskau.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Prelude (The Birds)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in B flat major, Op.76 no.4 'Sunrise' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Decca.
  • Arturo Márquez

    Conga del fuego nuevo

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Gustavo Dudamel: Discoveries.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 12.

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