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The London Tango Quintet live in session

Composer Shirley J. Thompson talks to Katie about her Wigmore Hall concert, Mandela Tales.
Katie is also joined in studio by The London Tango Quintet, who play live ahead of their gig Upstairs at Ronnie's in July.

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Mon 22 Jun 202617:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Léo Delibes

    Les Chasseresses [Prelude] (Sylvia)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • Chopin/Delibes: Ballet favourites: Philadelphia Orchestra/Ormandy.
    • CBS.
    • 2.

  • Richard Strauss

    Morgen!

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Music Arranger: Max Reger.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 1 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy. Conductor: Antonello Manacorda.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 1-5.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 7.

  • Gerardo Matos Rodríguez

    La Cumparsita

    Music Arranger: Juan d’Arienzo. Ensemble: London Tango Quintet.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Pange lingua

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Bruckner: Mass in E minor/Motets: Polyphony/Britten Sinfonia/Layton.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Recorder Concerto in C major, TWV.51.C1; IV. Tempo di Minuet

    Performer: Tabea Debus. Performer: Johannes Lang. Performer: Kerstin Fahr. Performer: Hongxia Cui. Performer: Katrin Ebert. Performer: Johanna Bruckner. Performer: Lea Rahel Bader. Performer: Niklas Sprenger.
    • TYX ART.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 - II. Largo

    Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • harmonia mundi.

  • Juan Carlos Cobián

    La casita de mis viejos

    Music Arranger: Horacio Salgán. Ensemble: The London Tango Quintet.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in G major, K 525, 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Jordi Savall. Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations.
    • Mozart: Serenate, Notturne, Eine kleine Nachtmusik: Le Concert de Nations, Jordi.
    • Alia Vox.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in G major Kk.455

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • BIS.

  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets, Op 32 (Mercury, the Winged Messenger)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Holst: The Planets – Bax: Tintagel.
    • LSO Live.
    • 3.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Muerte del Angel

    Ensemble: London Tango Quintet.

  • Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky

    Cello Sonata No. 2 in A minor, Op. 81 (2nd mov)

    Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Performer: Peter Limonov.
    • Champs Hill Records.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique (A Ball)

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Shirley J. Thompson

    Psalm 84 to Windrush: To the Brave and Ingenius

    Performer: Peter Holder. Singer: Nadine Benjamin. Singer: Gweneth-Ann Rand. Singer: Ronald Samm. Singer: Byron Jackson. Conductor: Shirley J. Thompson.

  • Shirley J. Thompson

    New Nation Rising: I. Marhses, Hamlets and Roaming Cows

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Double Concerto for Violin and Cello (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Orchestra: Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Brahms: Double Concerto in A Minor, Op. 102.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 103.

  • Pauline Viardot

    Havanaise

    Performer: Matilda Lloyd. Music Arranger: William Foster. Conductor: Rumon Gamba. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia.
    • Casta Diva - Operatic arias transcribed for trumpet.
    • Chandos.
    • 109.

  • Claude Debussy

    The Snow is dancing (Children's corner)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion.

  • Andrea Falconieri

    Ciaccona

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Lorenza Borrani. Performer: Jonathan Cohen. Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout. Performer: Stefan Maass. Performer: Stephan Rath. Performer: Hans‐Kristian Kjos Sørensen.
    • Air, A Baroque Journey: Daniel Hope.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Mon 22 Jun 202617:00
    BBC Radio 3

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