Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

Tom Service talks to superstar counter-tenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski

Tom Service talks to counter-tenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski, as he heads to Edinburgh. He also talks to the trailblazing conductor Joana Mallwitz about bringing Weill back to Berlin.

Tom Service talks to the super-star counter-tenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski, as he heads to the Edinburgh International Festival. He also talks to the trailblazing conductor Joana Mallwitz about bringing Kurt Weill's music back to Berlin. Plus the best classical music playlist with the latest stories in the arts world.

0945
As the Â鶹Éç Proms take place at the Glasshouse in Gateshead, Tom presents a sequence of pieces to show what musicians can do with the inspiration of glass, from Mozart to Philip Glass, via Caroline Shaw and Hamish MacCunn.

1020
Tom speaks to the superstar countertenor, Jakub Jozef Orlinski, who has just made his Proms debut and is heading to the Edinburgh International Festival for another much anticipated debut with Il Pomo d'Oro. He talks to Tom about creating new interpretations of baroque opera and reaching out into rock music, and breakdancing – the day after appearing both singing and breakdancing on a boat in the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics in Paris.

11:20
Tom talks to Stephen Maddock, the Principal of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, about The State of the Arts - a newly-published report from the University of Warwick and the Campaign from the Arts.

1135
The conductor Joana Mallwitz talks to Tom about bringing Kurt Weill back to Berlin, and how his music echoes the city, both then and now. She talks particularly about the 1st and 2nd symphonies, which she has recorded for her new Kurt Weill Album with the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Running Set

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • ONYX.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 6 in B flat major

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Peter Nagy.
    • DECCA.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in D major Wq.183 No.1

    Ensemble: Café Zimmermann. Director: Pablo Valetti.
    • ALPHA.
  • Anna Clyne

    Three Sisters

    Performer: Avi Avital. Ensemble: The Knights. Conductor: Eric Jacobsen.
    • SONY.
  • Michael Tippett

    Deep River (5 Spirituals from 'A Child of our Time')

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Collins Classics.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Three Movement from Petrushka: III. The Shrovetide Fair

    Performer: George Li.
    • WARNER.
  • Philip Glass

    Glassworks - opening

    Music Arranger: Christian Badzura. Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson. Performer: Siggi Quartet.

    Vikingur Olafsson (piano) Siggi Quartet

    • DG.
    • 00028947969211.
    • 2.
  • Maurice Ravel

    La valse, M. 72 (Version for Orchestra)

    Conductor: Mariss Jansons. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • La valse, M. 72 (Version for Orchestra).
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 1.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G minor Op.74`3 'Rider' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op.74: Takacs Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Leonore - overture no.1 Op.138

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Beethoven: Symphony no.6/Leonore overtures: Swedish Chamber Orch/Dausgaard.
    • Simax.
    • 6.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Lute Suite in E minor BWV.996 (Allemande)

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • DELPHIAN.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux Aurumque

    Music Arranger: Joby Burgess. Music Arranger: Joby Burgess. Ensemble: Joby Burgess Marimba Quartet. Ensemble: Joby Burgess Marimba Quartet.
    • Eric Whitacre: Marimba Quartets.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 101.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

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

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • Korngold: Orchestral Works: London Symphony Orchestra/Previn.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Scherzo no.2 in B flat minor Op.31

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Benjamin Grosvenor: Chopin, Lizst, Ravel.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Helvi Leiviskä

    Orchestral Suite No. 2, Op. 11: II. Humoreski (Humoresque)

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
    • Helvi Leiviskä: Orchestral Works Vol. 1.
    • BIS.
    • 3.
  • John Adams

    Road Movies for violin and piano: III. 40% Swing

    Performer: Orion Weiss. Performer: Augustin Hadelich.
    • WARNER.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra No. 3 in F Major "Il Mezzetino" [complete]

    Performer: Martin Frost. Music Arranger: Andreas N. Tarkmann. Orchestra: Concerto Köln.
    • Vivaldi.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13-16.
  • Kurt Weill

    Die sieben Todsuenden: II. Stolz

    Conductor: Joana Mallwitz. Orchestra: Konzerthausorchester Berlin.
    • DG.
  • Kurt Weill

    Symphony No.2 'Fantaisie Symphonique': III. Allegro vivace

    Orchestra: Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Conductor: Joana Mallwitz.
    • DG.
  • Wolfgang Rihm

    Tristis est anima mea (7 Passions-texte)

    Choir: Cappella Amsterdam. Conductor: Daniel Reuss.
    • In umbra mortis.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 101.
  • Franz Schubert

    Die Forelle, D 550

    Orchestrator: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Stanislas de Barbeyrac. Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Nacht & Traume - Schubert Lieder.
    • Erato.
    • 003.
  • Ferruccio Busoni

    Lustspiel-Ouverture, Op. 38, BV 245

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Busoni: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Giovanni Antonio Boretti

    Eliogabalo, Act 3: Chi scherza con amor (Eliogabalo)

    Performer: Jakub Józef Orliński. Orchestra: Il Pomo d’Oro.
    • Â鶹Éç Radio 3.
  • Giulio Caccini

    Le nuove musiche: Amarilli mia bella

    Performer: Jakub Józef Orliński. Performer: Il Pomo d’Oro.
    • ERATO.
    • 5419772645.
    • 4.
  • Henry Purcell

    Music For A While (From Oedipus, Z. 583)

    Music Arranger: Aleksander Dębicz. Performer: Jakub Józef Orliński. Performer: Wojciech Guminski. Performer: Marcin Ulanowski. Performer: Aleksander Dębicz.
    • WARNER.
    • 2173239311.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Sat 27 Jul 2024 09:00