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Conductors Yannick N茅zet-S茅guin and Vasily Petrenko on the power of live performance

Tom Service with the perfect classical soundtrack for the weekend and guests including conductors Yannick N茅zet-S茅guin and Vasily Petrenko, and composer Laura Bowler.

Tom Service with guests, stories and the perfect classical soundtrack for the weekend!

Yannick N茅zet-S茅guin talks to Tom about the power of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde as he conducts a new production at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He explains what it means to him personally to be performing this work at the Met and how discovering this opera as a youngster made him realise that Wagner was the composer he wanted to conduct most in opera.

We continue our focus on Creators with the composer, vocalist and artistic director Laura Bowler, who talks to Tom about grief and music, including her recent piece "The White Book", which explores loss, memory and survival, written after the death of her mother and inspired by the poetry of Korean writer Han Kang.

Tom meets conductor Vasily Petrenko, who discusses why we need to embrace human music not AI, how the concert experience can change lives and why we all need some Mahler right now.

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Music Played

  • Henry Purcell

    Chacony in G minor Z.730

    Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Stefano Montanari.
    • Henry Purcell, O Solitude: Andreas Scholl/Accademia Bizantina.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Erno Dohnanyi

    Sextet in C major, Op.37 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Kheops Ensemble.
    • Fuga Libera.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    En pri猫re (Orchestral Version)

    Singer: Cyrille Dubois. Conductor: Pierre Dumoussaud. Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic.
    • So Po茅tique !.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 16.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Violin Concerto in A minor Op.82 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • Shostakovich Glazunov.
    • Decca.
    • 008.

  • Anna Clyne

    Dance for cello and orchestra: I. when you're broken open

    Performer: Maja Bogdanovi膰. Conductor: Xandi van Dijk. Orchestra: Phion.
    • Perfectly Free.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 5.

  • Cl茅ment Janequin

    Le Chant des Oyseaulx

    Choir: Concert Clemens. Conductor: Carsten Seyer-Hansen.
    • Danacord.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049: I. Allegro

    Performer: Amandine Beyer. Ensemble: Gli Incogniti.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Iberia Suite (El Puerto)

    Orchestrator: Enrique Fern谩ndez Arb贸s. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Albeniz: Iberia Suite: Philharmonia, Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Franz Schubert

    Six Moments Musicaux, D. 780: II. Andantino

    Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
    • Orchid Classics.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 "Jupiter": finale

    Conductor: Andrew Manze. Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 40 & 41 (Live).
    • PENTATONE.
    • 08.

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