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Valentine's Day with jazz singer Claire Martin

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

Tom plays classical music to start your weekend.

Jazz singer Claire Martin joins Tom in the studio for an exclusive performance ahead of her St Valentine's Day concert with Kings Place Jazz Orchestra under the direction of trombonist and composer Callum Au where they combine forces for music made famous by Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Richard Rodney Bennett and many more.

Tom also speaks to baroque violinist Bjarte Eike from Barokksolistene about his unique take on Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas which is being performed at the Glasshouse in Gateshead on 20th February, with Bjarte performing alongside the Royal Northern Sinfonia, mezzo-soprano Katie Bray and more.

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Sat 14 Feb 202609:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Antonín Dvořák

    String serenade in E major Op.22 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Prague Philharmonia. Conductor: Jakub Hrůša.
    • Supraphon.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in B flat major for 3 oboes, 3 violins and continuo TWV.44:43

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in B flat major Op.18 no.6 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Calidore String Quartet.
    • Beethoven: The Early Quartets.
    • Signum Records.
    • 21.

  • Richard Rodgers

    My Funny Valentine

    Lyricist: Oscar Hammerstein II. Singer: Claire Martin. Performer: Ross Stanley.
    • BBC recording.

  • Bernard Herrmann

    Scène D'Amour (Vertigo - Suite)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • Herrmann - The Film Scores.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 18.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Clarinet sonata in E flat major Op.167 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • La clarinette parisienne.
    • BIS.
    • 304.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Cello Concerto (Longing)

    Performer: Kristina Blaumane. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras. Conductor: Maxim Rysanov.
    • String Paths.
    • ECM NEW SERIES.
    • 003.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations BWV988 (Var.13. a 2 claviers)

    Performer: Yunchan Lim.
    • J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations (Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, 2025).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, TH 30 "Pathétique".
    • Orfeo.
    • 1.

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    You Never Went Away

    Performer: Claire Martin. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Scott Dunn.
    • STUNT.

  • Jerome Kern

    The Folks Who Live On The Hill

    Performer: Claire Martin. Performer: Ross Stanley.
    • BBC recording.

  • Nicola Matteis

    Caldara's Cajo Marzio Coriolano (Act 3 Ballo; Prelude)

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • Extra Time.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 18.

  • Nicholas Matteis

    Caldara's Cajo Marzio Coriolano (Act 3 Ballo; Entree)

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • Extra Time.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 20.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.5 in B flat D.485 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Schubert: Symphonies, Volume 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 008.

  • Franz Liszt

    Widmung S.566 [Robert Schumann]

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Love Songs - Piano Transcriptions Without Words.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Noël Coward

    Any Little Fish

    Singer: Mary Bevan. Singer: Nicky Spence. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
    • A Most Marvellous Party: Noel Coward and Friends.
    • Signum Records.
    • 11.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor Op.66

    Music Arranger: Christopher West. Music Arranger: Emma Johnson. Performer: Emma Johnson. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Julian Reynolds.
    • Romantic Chopin.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 183.

  • Leos Janáček

    String Quartet no.2 'Intimate letters' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • Janáček & Ligeti: Quartets.
    • ALPHA.
    • 4.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Laudate, pueri, Dominum (Vespro della beata Vergine)

    Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Raphaël Pichon.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Josef Suk

    Love Song (6 Pieces Op.7)

    Music Arranger: Jaroslav Kocián. Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Decca.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no.4 in A major Op.90 'Italian' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphonies 1-5 (Live).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in C major HWV.318 'Alexander's feast' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • Virgin Classics.

  • George Gershwin

    Love walked in

    Music Arranger: Percy Grainger. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Saint-Saëns/Ravel/Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Decca.
    • 10.

Broadcast

  • Sat 14 Feb 202609:00
    BBC Radio 3