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Tom Service talks to the star tenor Nicky Spence

Tom Service talks to the star tenor Nicky Spence and plays the best classical music. He also asks whether metronomes are a blessing or a curse and talks to composer Nico Muhly.

Tom Service talks to the star tenor Nicky Spence and plays the best classical music, from familiar to hidden gems. He also finds out whether metronomes are a blessing or a curse, and talks to the American composer Nico Muhly about his latest work, To the Body.

09:40
Tom Service talks to the star tenor Nicky Spence about his formative years growing up in Newcastle and Dumfries, and they discuss the accessibility of opera both for young performers entering the profession and the audiences that they reach. Tom also asks Nicky about his advocacy of music education, and Nicky invites Tom to take part in their exclusive performance of Noel Coward's song, Any Little Fish, by making various animal noises!

11:00
Are metronomes a blessing or a curse? Tom tries to eumulate Pierre-Laurent Aimard's performance of Bach's Prelude in C minor, BWV.847, by taking a metronome into his practice room. He also talks to Adrian Church of the Musical Museum in Brentford, about the invention and mechanics of the metronome, which seems to be a surprisingly late discovery in music history. With the help of percussionist Catherine Ring, he finds out how metronomes can really help musicians, both in private practice and ensemble work.

11:30
Tom talks to the American composer Nico Muhly about his latest work, a piece for voices, instruments and electronics called To the Body. It is a vast and moving work, in ten panels, to accompany the jaw-dropping images of Yu Hong's exhibition at the church of Abbazia della Misericordia in Venice, and it takes Buxtehude's cantatas, membra Jesu Nostri, as its starting point, meditating on the wounds of Jesus.

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Sat 8 Jun 2024 09:00
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Music Played

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz No. 1 in E flat major 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 18

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Maurice Ravel: Ma M猫re L鈥檕ye; Bol茅ro; Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales; Pavane Pou.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.

  • Josef Rheinberger

    3 Geistliche Gesange Op.69 for chorus: III. Abendlied

    Choir: Singer Pur.
    • OEHMS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia concertante for Violin and Viola in E-Flat Major, K. 364: I. Allegro ma

    Performer: Johan Dalene. Performer: Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad. Orchestra: Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • ALPHA.

  • Erik Satie

    Je te veux

    Performer: Salaputia Brass. Music Arranger: Rainer Hoffmann.
    • BERLIN.

  • Buxton Orr

    Songs of Childhood: 5. Shy Geordie

    Singer: Nicky Spence. Performer: Dylan Perez.

  • Henry Purcell

    Chacony in G minor Z.730

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

  • Emilie Mayer

    Symphony no.6 in E major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Philharmonisches Orchester Bremerhaven. Conductor: Marc Niemann.
    • Emilie Mayer: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 3.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 104.

  • George Gershwin

    Variations on 'I got rhythm'

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue & Piano Concerto: Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • No毛l Coward

    Any Little Fish

    Singer: Nicky Spence. Performer: Dylan Perez.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Horn Trio in E flat major Op.40 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Performer: Benjamin Marquise Gilmore. Performer: Daniel Grimwood.
    • Brahms: Chamber Music.
    • BIS.
    • 304.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony no.1 in D Minor, Op.13 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1 & Isle of the Dead.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 3.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    12 Concerti a cinque, Op. 9 No. 3 for 2 Oboes in F Major [complete]

    Performer: Gail Hennessy. Performer: Rachel Chaplin. Conductor: Adrian Chandler. Ensemble: La Serenissima.
    • The Italian Job.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 19.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Much Ado about Nothing - Suite Op.11 (Hornpipe)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Korngold: Orchestral Works: London Symphony Orchestra/Previn.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.

  • Heinrich Isaac

    Tartara, a 3

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Philip Glass

    Etude no.9

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • Deustche Grammophon.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Concerto in D minor Op.47 for violin and orchestra: III. Allegro, ma non tanto

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Klaus M盲kel盲.
    • DECCA.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude in C minor, BWV.847

    Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.
    • DG.
    • 4792784.

  • Steve Reich

    Music for 18 Musicians: Pulses II

    Ensemble: Colin Currie Group. Choir: Synergy Vocals.
    • Colin Currie Records.
    • CCR0006.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    The Consecration of the House Op.124

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Beethoven: Overturen - Weiner Philharmoniker/Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 4.

  • Bohuslav Martin暖

    Nipponari, H. 68 "Japanese Folk Songs": IV. Prosn臎n媒 啪ivot (Life in Dreams)

    Singer: Magdalena Ko啪en谩. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F major D.803 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Bruno Schneider. Performer: Dag Jensen. Performer: Knut Eric Sundquist. Ensemble: Modigliani Quartet.
    • Schubert: Octet.
    • Mirare.
    • 3.

  • Barbara Strozzi

    Godere e tacere

    Ensemble: Orlando di Lasso Ensemble.
    • Libro di Madrigali - Strozzi.
    • Thorofon.
    • 005.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Young Apollo, Op.16

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • HYPERION.

Broadcast

  • Sat 8 Jun 2024 09:00
    麻豆社 Radio 3