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Cécile McLorin Salvant talks tunes and tatting

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces the best classical music and stories from the arts world. She talks to the singer Cécile McLorin Salvant and players from the Sphinx Organisation.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces the best classical music and stories from the arts world.

Sara chats to the Grammy Award-winning vocalist and composer Cécile McLorin Salvant about her life in music and her new album "With Every Breath I Take", featuring the Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules Buckley. Cécile talks about the role humour plays in how she chooses songs, the different voices she uses when singing in English and French, and her love of tatting lace whenever she’s not immersed in music.

Sara is joined by musicians from the Sphinx Organisation which was started by the violinist Aaron Dworkin in Detroit in 1996 to give a platform to, and develop the careers of, young Black and Latino classical musicians, and it’s still going strong with residencies, summer schools, competitions, ensembles and more. Violinists Elena Urioste and Nathan Amaral, violist Celia Hatton, cellist Sterling Elliot and pianist Amiri Harewood perform music by Florence Price and Ralph Vaughan Williams and talk to Sara about how being part of Sphinx has shaped their musical paths.

Our focus on Creators continues with Glynis Jones who was a member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in the 1970s. As the BBC moves out of its legendary Maida Vale Studios, Glynis reflects on what daily life was like there in the Radiophonic Workshop and how the legacy of the sounds she and her colleagues created can still be heard on television and radio today.

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Music Played

  • Francesco Maria Veracini

    Concerto in D major for 8 instruments: 3rd mvt, Allegro

    Performer: Chouchane Siranossian. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.
    • Duello d’archi a Venezia.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 3.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Dawn)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • Augusta Holmès

    Sérénades: no. 2, Sérénade d'Été

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Mary Bevan. Ensemble: Ruisi Quartet.
    • Visions Illuminées.
    • Signum Records.
    • 23.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony no.3 in G minor Op.36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Erato.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano concerto No 1 in F major, K 37 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Mishka Rushdie Momen. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • Alpha Classics.

  • Josquin des Prez

    Ave Maria, virgo serena

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Decca.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Tarantelle in A minor, Op. 6

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Paul Meyer. Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Conductor: François Leleux.
    • Warner.

  • Matthew Locke

    The Tempest (Curtain Tune)

    Orchestra: Vox Orchester. Conductor: Lorenzo Ghirlanda.
    • Purcell & Locke: Orchestral Works.
    • deutsche harmonia mundi.
    • 16.

  • David Chalmin

    Eclipse

    Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque. Performer: Bryce Dessner. Performer: David Chalmin.
    • Sonic Wires (Deluxe Edition).
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 13.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61: Overture

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphonies.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 1.

  • Cécile McLorin Salvant

    Melusine

    Performer: Daniel Swenberg. Singer: Cécile McLorin Salvant.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Michel Legrand

    Les Parapluies De Cherbourg

    Lyricist: Jacques Demy. Singer: Cécile McLorin Salvant. Orchestra: Metropole Orkest. Conductor: Jules Buckley.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Cécile McLorin Salvant

    Anything but now

    • Nonesuch.

  • Duke Ellington

    Sophisticated Lady

    Lyricist: Mitchell Parish. Singer: Cécile McLorin Salvant. Orchestra: Metropole Orkest. Conductor: Jules Buckley.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 "Spring": 2nd mvt

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Performer: Alasdair Beatson.
    • Beethoven: Violin Sonatas 4, 5 & 7.
    • Signum Records.
    • 5.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Trittico Botticelliano: La Primavera

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Frizza.
    • Italian Perspectives.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 6.

  • Nico Muhly

    The Revd Mustard his Installation Prelude

    Performer: James McVinnie.
    • Bedroom Community.

  • Giovanni Battista Sammartini

    Sonata per l'armandolino in G Major: 3rd mvt, Allegro

    Performer: Duilio Galfetti. Performer: Luca Pianca.
    • Italian Sonatas for Mandoline.
    • Passacaille.
    • 9.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Rondo for Piano (from Suite of Six Short Pieces)

    Performer: Amiri Harewood.

  • Florence Price

    Piano Quintet in A minor: 3rd mvt, Juba

    Ensemble: Sphinx Ensemble.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No.9 In E Minor, Op.95 'From The New World' - 2nd mvt Largo

    Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • REFERENCE RECORDINGS.

  • Donnacha Dennehy

    "Limina" Piano Concerto: 1st mvt, Head

    Performer: Eliza McCarthy. Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra Ireland. Conductor: Ryan McAdams.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Lili Boulanger

    Les Sirènes

    Performer: Antonii Baryshevskyi. Choir: Orpheus Vokalensemble. Conductor: Michael Alber.
    • Carus.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Magnificat (opening)

    Orchestra: The Sixteen. Orchestra: The Symphony of Harmony and Invention. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Vivaldi Gloria / Bach Magnificat.
    • Coro.
    • 13.

  • Glynis Jones

    Schlum Rooli

    • BBC Records and Tapes.

  • Glynis Jones

    Veils and Mirrors

    • BBC Records and Tapes.

  • Claude Debussy

    Pagodes (Estampes)

    Music Arranger: Percy Grainger. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Sarabande for Guitar, FP 179

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Camino.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 1001.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73: 4th mvt, Allegro con spirito

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies.
    • Linn Records.
    • 8.

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