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VOCES8 swing by

Vocal supergroup VOCES8 in the studio with Tom Service celebrating their 20th anniversary.

Tom Service has guests, stories and the perfect classical soundtrack to start your weekend!

The vocal supergroup VOCES8 celebrate their 20th anniversary year with Tom, performing in studio and talking about their mission to bring music to the world and enable music educators to continue what the group started in workshops with young people around the globe. They sing music by Orlando Gibbons and Nat King Cole.

Plus the final piece of music for 麻豆社 Radio 3's 25for 25 series: Sounds of the Century. This time we focus on 2024 in a new work for the 麻豆社 Philharmonic British-Armenian composer Kristina Arakelyan celebrates 鈥榯he year of the aurora鈥, with the Northern Lights being visible unusually far south more often in 2024 than in any other year of the century so far.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto no. 3 in G (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Violin Concertos.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 10.
  • Claude Debussy

    Tarantelle Styrienne [Danse]

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Op茅ra de Lyon. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Ravel: Orchestral Works 3.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Nocturne in B flat minor, Op 9 No 1

    Performer: Jan Lisiecki.
    • Chopin: Complete Nocturnes.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Lobgesang: IV. Aria. O dass ich tausend Zungen h盲tte

    Lyricist: Psalm. Lyricist: Johann Mentzer.
    • Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn: Sacred Music, Vol. 1.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 21.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Flute Concerto no.1 in A minor Wq.166 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 20 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Notos Quartett.
    • RCA.
  • Aldo Romano

    Il Camino

    Performer: Ballak茅 Sissoko. Performer: Vincent S茅gal. Performer: Vincent Peirani.
    • No Format.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 7: II. Nachtmusik. Allegro moderato - Live

    • Mahler: Symphony No. 7 (Live).
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
    • 2.
  • Caroline Shaw

    Lady with an Ermine

    • Leonardo da Vinci: A Film by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, & David McMahon (Original S.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 6.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    O Clap Your Hands

    Choir: VOCES8.
  • Lucy Walker

    Give me your stars

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • DECCA.
    • 00028948714391.
    • 6.
  • Nat King Cole

    Straighten Up and Fly Right

    Music Arranger: Jim Clements. Choir: VOCES8.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36: IV. Allegro molto

    • Beethoven: The Symphonies.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 120 No. 2: I. Allegro amabile

    • Here with You.
    • Cedille.
    • 1.
  • William Marsey

    Man with Limp Wrist: VI. The Reader

    Conductor: Thomas Ad猫s. Orchestra: Hall茅.
    • Ad猫s, Marsey and Leith.
    • Halle Concerts Society.
    • 8.
  • Jean Sibelius

    String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 4: III. Presto

    Ensemble: Tempera Quartet.
    • Sibelius: String Quartet in B Flat / String Quartet in D Minor / Adagio in D Min.
    • BIS.
    • 3.
  • Pietro Locatelli

    Concerto grosso in F major Op.1`7

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • Harmonia mundi.
  • John Foulds

    Le Cabaret, Op.72a

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Overture from the British Isles, Vol.2.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.
  • Franz Schubert

    Vier Impromptus, op.90 D.899: I. Allegro molto moderato, C minor

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Schubert: Piano Sonatas D.840, 850 & 894.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 301.
  • Josef Rheinberger

    Nonet in E flat major Op.139 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Stuttgart Nonet.
    • SWR Digital.
  • Kristina Arakelyan

    Aurora Borealis

    Performer: Kristina Arakelyan. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Naomi Woo.
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous: John Come Kiss Me Now

    • Flying Horse: Renaissance Music from the ML Lutebook.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • 脡douard Lalo

    Fantasie-ballet (Namouna)

    Performer: Jean鈥怞acques Kantorow. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Kees Bakels.
    • Lalo - Concerto Russe; Piano Concerto etc..
    • BIS.
    • 6.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance in D major, Op 46 No 6

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Dvorak: Slavonic Dances.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Sat 12 Jul 2025 09:00