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Conductors Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Vasily Petrenko on the power of live performance

Tom Service with the perfect classical soundtrack for the weekend and guests including conductors Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Vasily Petrenko, and composer Laura Bowler.

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

Yannick Nézet-Séguin 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 Fauré

    En prière

    Singer: Cyrille Dubois. Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic. Conductor: Pierre Dumoussaud.
    • So Poétique !.
    • 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 (when you're broken open)

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

  • Clément Janequin

    Le chant des oiseaux

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

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg concerto no.4 in G major BWV.1049 (1st mvt)

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

  • Isaac Albéniz

    Iberia Suite (El Puerto)

    Orchestrator: Enrique Fernández Arbós. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Albeniz: Iberia Suite: Philharmonia, Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Franz Schubert

    6 Moments musicaux D.780 (no.2 in A flat major)

    Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
    • Orchid Classics.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.41 in C major K.551 'Jupiter' (4th mvt)

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

  • Santiago de Murcia

    Gaitas

    Performer: Rolf Lislevand. Ensemble: Ensemble Kapsberger.
    • Naive.

  • John Field

    Nocturne no.4 in A major H.36

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Field: Complete Nocturnes.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.

  • Louise Héritte-Viardot

    Piano Quartet no.1 in A major Op.9 'Im Sommer' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 2.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 2.

  • Johannes Ockeghem

    Missa pro defunctis (Kyrie)

    Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • Dacapo.

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    L'heure exquise

    Singer: Alice Coote. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • L'heure Exquise - A French Songbook.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Baryton trio in G major H.11.26 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Valencia Baryton Project.
    • Haydn: Baryton Trios, Vol. 3.
    • Naxos.
    • 8.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    10 Pieces from Romeo and Juliet Op.75 (Juliet - the young girl)

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Prokofiev: 10 Pieces for Piano from \"Romeo and Juliet\", Op. 75: No. 4, Juliet.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Steve Reich

    Dance Patterns

    Performer: Colin Currie. Ensemble: Colin Currie Group.
    • Steve Reich: Dance Patterns.
    • Colin Currie Records.
    • 1.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Preludio sinfonico

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Puccini: Orchestral Music.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite no.4 in D minor HWV.437 (Sarabande)

    Ensemble: Jupiter. Conductor: Thomas Dunford.
    • Eternal Heaven - Handel: Suite No. 4 in D Minor: III. Sarabande.
    • ERATO.
    • 1.

  • Laura Bowler

    The Sad Album

    Singer: Laura Bowler. Ensemble: Lovemusic Collective.

  • Mark O’Connor

    Appalachia Waltz

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma.
    • Essential Yo-Yo Ma.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony no.3 in E flat major, Op.97 'Rhenish' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Schumann: Complete Symphonies.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

Broadcast

  • Sat 21 Mar 202609:00
    BBC Radio 3