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Tom Service chats with Jean Guihen Queyras about the alignment of the inner worlds

Tom Service plays the best classical music alongside the latest stories in the arts world, and he meets cellist Jean Guihen Queryas and composer Dame Judith Weir.

Tom Service provides the ideal soundtrack for Saturday morning, with the best classical music in new and landmark recordings and one or two surprise guests introducing their own releases.

Three artists join Tom this morning. Cellist Jean Guihen Queryas is performing the Bach Cello Suites at Wigmore Hall and takes time out of his busy rehearsal day to tell Tom his current plans and passions.

And in The Creators, British composer Dame Judith Weir discusses her piece Thread!, inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry. Thread! is 45 years old this year, and with the Bayeux Tapestry opening at the British Museum on the 10th September, Tom thought it no better time to talk about how the Tapestry continues to inspire artists to this day.

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Music Played

  • Andrea Falconieri

    Ciaccona

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Lorenza Borrani. Performer: Jonathan Cohen. Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout. Performer: Stefan Maass. Performer: Stephan Rath. Performer: Hans‐Kristian Kjos Sørensen.
    • Air, A Baroque Journey: Daniel Hope.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir

    Maríuljóð

    Choir: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis. Conductor: Hörður Áskelsson.
    • Kom vinur.
    • Sono Luminus.
    • 201.

  • Michael Tilson Thomas

    You Come Here Often? (Upon Further Reflection)

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Tilson Thomas: You Come Here Often?.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano concerto no.1 in D minor Op.15 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Francesco Piemontesi. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.

  • Jean Cras

    Trio (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Black Oak Ensemble.
    • Avant l'orage: French String Trios, 1926–1939.
    • Cedille.
    • 203.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.41 in C major K.551 'Jupiter' (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Riccardo Minasi. Ensemble: Ensemble Resonanz.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41 "Jupiter".
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 201.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Sextet in C minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • I Fagiolini, The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, Robert Hollingworth & Nicholas Mulroy

    Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 3, Nigra sum

    • Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 3, Nigra sum.
    • CORO.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.9 in C 'Great' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Thomas Zehetmair.
    • Schubert: Symphony No. 9 • Hans Gál: Symphony No. 2.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 4.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite no.1 in G major BWV.1007 (Allemande - extract)

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Raphaël Imbert

    My Klezmer Dream

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Performer: Raphaël Imbert. Performer: Pierre-François Blanchard.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Raphaël Imbert

    Alkim's Spirit (Eagle)

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Performer: Raphaël Imbert. Performer: Pierre-François Blanchard.
    • Invisible Stream.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Ernest Bloch

    Schelomo

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Orchestra: Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Gimeno.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    24 Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87: No. 7 in A Major

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 13.

  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet no. 2 in D major (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Borodin Quartet.
    • Borodin: String Quartets Nos. 1&2: Borodin Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.

  • Joe Hisaishi

    Harp Concerto (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Emmanuel Ceysson. Conductor: Joe Hisaishi. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Symphony No. 3 (Metaphysica) & Harp Concerto.
    • Universal Music LLC.
    • 5.

  • George Frideric Handel

    The harmonious blacksmith (Keyboard suite no.5 in E major HWV.430)

    Performer: Danny Driver.
    • Handel: The 8 Great Suites for Keyboard.
    • Hyperion.

  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance (extract)

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • BBC recording.

  • Bobby Capó

    Piel Canela

    Music Arranger: Anne Dudley. Singer: Juan Diego Flórez. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • BBC recording.

  • Consuelo Velázquez

    Bésame Mucho

    Music Arranger: Anne Dudley. Singer: Juan Diego Flórez. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Ernst Mielck

    Symphony in F minor 'Fairy Tale' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Mielck, E.: Symphony in F Minor / Konzertstuck in D Major.
    • Ondine.
    • 3.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major RV 558 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Teldec.

  • Judith Weir

    Thread!

    Narrator: Alexander Armstrong. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Swan. Conductor: Tom Hammond.
    • ORCHID CLASSICS.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.1 in D major (Blumine)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 1 / Blumine.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major Op.20`4 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 20 Nos. 4-6.
    • BIS.
    • 4.

  • Mario Castelnuovo‐Tedesco

    Violin Concerto no.2' The Prophets' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Tianwa Yang. Orchestra: Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pieter-Jelle de Boer.
    • Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Violin Concertos.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Sat 12 Sep 202609:00
    BBC Radio 3