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Mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly

Tom Service with guests, stories and the perfect classical soundtrack for the weekend. Tom's guest is the mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly.

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

Tom is joined by mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly who talks about her relationship to the music of Mahler, her ambition to become a jazz musician earlier in her career, and her upcoming concert at the Surrey Hills International Music Festival.

Violinist Randall Goosby chats to Tom about his current tour, making connections between the music of Harry Burleigh, Antonin Dvorak, Amy Beach, Claude Debussy and Ludwig van Beethoven.

And our focus on Creators continues with composer Gabriel Prokofiev, whose Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra turns 20 this year.

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Sat 25 Apr 2026 09:00
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Music Played

  • Ottorino Respighi

    La Primavera (Trittico Botticelliano)

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

  • Arturo M谩rquez

    Fandango (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Anne Akiko Meyers. Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Platoon.

  • Clara Schumann

    3 Romances Op.11 ( no.1 in E flat minor)

    Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Romance 鈥� The Piano Music of Clara Schumann.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute concerto in G major K.313 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Zofia Neugebauer. Orchestra: Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen. Conductor: Johannes Klumpp.
    • BERLIN CLASSICS.

  • Zofia Neugebauer

    Il Vento non Scritto

    Performer: Zofia Neugebauer.
    • BERLIN CLASSICS.

  • Claude Debussy

    Danse profance (Danse sacr茅e et danse profane)

    Music Arranger: Vassilena Serafimova. Performer: Vassilena Serafimova. Ensemble: Quatuor Ardeo.
    • Melodies in a Bottle.
    • La Dolce Volta.
    • 6.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Cantique de Jean Racine

    Choir: Accentus. Ensemble: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Naive.

  • Steve Reich

    The Four Sections (Full Orchestra)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • The Four Sections.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 4.

  • William Byrd

    Miserere mihi Domine

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi UK Limited.

  • Dora Peja膷evi膰

    Piano quartet in D minor Op.25 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.5 in C minor Op.67 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Beethoven: R茅volution, Symphonies 1 脿 5.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 20.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott, BWV.721

    Music Arranger: Fred Thomas. Performer: Fred Thomas. Performer: Aisha Orazbayeva. Performer: Lucy Railton.
    • ECM.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Dopo notte (Ariodante)

    Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Orchestra: Symphony of Harmony and Invention. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Heroes and Heroines.
    • Coro.
    • 8.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Der Abschied (Das Lied von der Erde)

    Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Orchestra: Berliner Rundfunk Sinfonie Chor. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Pentatone.

  • Franz Schubert

    Die junge Nonne D.828

    Singer: Elly Ameling. Performer: Dalton Baldwin.
    • Philips.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Symphony in E flat major Op.1 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko.
    • Stravinsky: Symphony in E-Flat Major and Suites Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 102.

  • Lucien Durosoir

    Berceuse

    Performer: Jessie Ann Richardson. Performer: Emmanuel Despax.
    • RESONANCE: Schumann, Farrenc, Durosoir.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 110.

  • Nico Muhly

    Incipit lamentatio; ALEPH. Quomodo sedet (No resting place)

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • Nico Muhly: No Resting Place.
    • Linn Records.
    • 6.

  • William Grant Still

    Suite for violin and piano (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Zhu Wang. Performer: Randall Goosby.
    • 麻豆社 recording.

  • Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

    Jettin' Blue/s (Blue/s Forms)

    Performer: Randall Goosby.
    • Decca.

  • Florence Price

    Violin Concerto no.1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1; Florence Price: Violin Concertos.
    • Decca.

  • Max Bruch

    Violin concerto no.1 in G minor Op.26 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Decca.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture (Suite) in D major TWV.55:D1 (Overture)

    Ensemble: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Thomas Ad猫s

    Vesper [for Henry Purcell] (Forgotten Dances)

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Vesper.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 6.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    A Sea Symphony (3rd mvt)

    Choir: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 3.

  • Robert Schumann

    Zart und mit Ausdruck (Phantasiestucke Op.73)

    Music Arranger: Thomas Martin. Performer: Lorraine Campet. Performer: Nathana毛l Gouin.
    • 脗mes s艙urs.
    • 础辫补谤迟茅.
    • 16.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in E flat major K.252 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Consortium Classicum.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 16.

  • Aaron Copland

    Symphony no.3 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Copland: Symphony No. 3.
    • SFS Media.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Sat 25 Apr 2026 09:00
    麻豆社 Radio 3