Composer Nico Muhly on the power of choral music
Tom with an all-star composer line up! Nico Muhly chats about his new album of choral music, plus composer Hildur Gu冒nad贸ttir on her Oscar winning score for Joker.
Tom Service with guests, stories and the perfect classical soundtrack for the weekend!
The American composer Nico Muhly has written over one hundred works for choirs, and despite being a New Yorker has made a musical home in this very British musical tradition. He chats to Tom about his relationship with choral music and his new album works written for the Tallis Scholars that intersperse texts from Lamentations with interviews with members of the Windrush Generation.
As part of our Creators series and on the eve of this year's Oscars, the Icelandic composer Hildur Gu冒nad贸ttir talks to Tom about her score for The Joker, which in 2019 made her the first female composer to win for Best Original Soundtrack at the Academy Awards.
Also, conductor Delyana Lazarova is the 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra's new Principal Guest Conductor, and she chats to Tom about why collaboration is the key to everything she does and her plans for her new orchestra.
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Gustav Holst
Mercury, the Winged Messenger (The Planets)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Sir Simon Rattle - Gustav Holst.
- EMI Classics.
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Joseph Haydn
Mass in C Major 'Missa Cellensis' (Et resurrexit)
Performer: Johanna Winkel. Performer: Benjamin Bruns. Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Justin Doyle.- Haydn: Missa Cellensis, Hob. XXII:5.
- harmonia mundi.
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Clara Schumann
3 Romance Op.22 (no.3)
Music Arranger: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: Javier Perianes.- Brahms: Trio Op. 114. Robert & Clara Schumann: Romances.
- harmonia mundi.
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Gabriela Ortiz
Kauyumari
Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.- Platoon.
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John Dowland
Flow My Tears
Performer: David Orlowsky. Performer: David Bergm眉ller.- Alter Ego.
- Warner Classics.
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Aaron Copland
Saturday Night Waltz (4 Dance Episodes from Rodeo)
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.- Copland: Appalachian Spring: New York Philharmonic/Bernstein.
- Sony Classical.
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Franz Schubert
Piano trio in E flat major D.929 (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Trio Boh茅mo.- Supraphon.
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George Gershwin
By Strauss
Music Arranger: Nelson Riddle. Performer: Ella Fitzgerald. Orchestra: Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra. Conductor: Nelson Riddle.- Verve.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita no.1 in B flat major BWV.825 (Praeludium)
Performer: Viviane Chassot.- Pure Bach.
- Prospero Classical.
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C茅cile Chaminade
Danse pa茂enne Op.158
Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Performer: Peter Jablonski.- DG.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Violin concerto no.2 in G minor Op.63 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Nemanja Radulovi膰. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.- Prokofiev.
- Warner Classics.
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Nico Muhly
DALETH. Viae Sion lugent (No resting place)
Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.- Linn.
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Nico Muhly
Incipit lamentatio; ALEPH. Quomodo sedet (No resting place)
Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.- Nico Muhly: No Resting Place.
- Linn Records.
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Nico Muhly
BETH. Plorans ploravit (No resting place)
Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.- Nico Muhly: No Resting Place.
- Linn Records.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no.3 in E flat major Op.55 'Eroica' (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.- Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9: Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
- Teldec.
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Antonio Valente
Gagliarda napoletana [Intavolatura de cimbalo...libro 1o,1576]
Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.- ALIA VOX.
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Edward Elgar
Salut d'amour
Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: C茅cile Licad.- Encores as performed by Pablo Casals: Gerhardt/Licad.
- Hyperion.
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Peter Maxwell Davies
An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise
Performer: Robert Jordan. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Gernon.- Peter Maxwell Davies - An Orkney Wedding With Sunrise and other works.
- LINN.
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Robert Schumann
Carnival Scenes from Vienna Op.26 (Finale)
Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.- Schumann: Fantasie, Op. 17 - Carnival Scenes from Vienna - Humoreske.
- harmonia mundi.
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Nicola Porpora
Alto Giove (Polifemo)
Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.- ERATO.
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Joseph Haydn
Sonata in C major for piano H.16.46 (3rd mvt)
Music Arranger: Paul Galbraith. Performer: Paul Galbraith.- Haydn: Piano Sonatas, arranged by Gailbraith.
- Delos.
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Dobrinka Tabakova
Orpheus' Comet
Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Delyana Lazarova.- Tabakova: Orpheus' Comet.
- Halle Concerts Society.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Symphony no.2 in E minor Op.27 (4th mvt)
Orchestra: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Delyana Lazarova.- 麻豆社 recording, Proms 2026.
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Edvard Grieg
Spring (12 Songs Op.33)
Singer: Lise Davidsen. Performer: James Baillieu.- Live at the Met (Live at Metropolitan Opera, New York, 2023).
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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Hildur Gu冒nad贸ttir
Joker (original soundtrack)
Performer: Hildur Gu冒nad贸ttir.- Watertower Music.
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
String Quartet no.2 in E flat major Op.26 (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.- Korngold/Kreisler: Music from Vienna 2: Brodsky Quartet.
- Vanguard.
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Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.61 (Nocturne)
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.- Mendelssohn: Overture & Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream.
- Channel Classics.
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