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Katie Derham introduces live music from the Sultan Stevenson Trio, who have a new album out and an upcoming gig at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Katie Derham introduces live music from the Sultan Stevenson Trio, who have a new album out and an upcoming gig at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Pianist George Xiaoyuan Fu also plays live in the studio to celebrate release day of his new album.

Including 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3鈥檚 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century 鈥� a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. This week, American composer Nkeiru Okoye marks the historic election of the first African-American US president in her piece And the People Celebrated recorded by the 蜜芽传媒 Concert Orchestra and narrator Paterson Joseph.

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蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Luigi Boccherini

    String Quintet in E major, Op.11`5 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Eckart Runge. Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Gustav Holst

    Walt Whitman Overture, Op. 7

    Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Concert Orchestra.
    • EM Records.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Serenade for strings (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Yuri Zhislin. Ensemble: Russian Virtuosi of Europe.
    • Orchid Classics : ORC100052.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 2.

  • Claude Debussy

    Prelude 'Les sons et parfums tournent dans l'air du soir'

    Performer: George Fu.

  • Richard Strauss

    Morgen, Op.27 no.4

    Singer: Jessye Norman. Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Kurt Masur.
    • PHILLIPS.

  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet No 2 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Borodin Quartet.
    • Onyx.

  • Sultan Stevenson

    Unspeakable Happiness

    Ensemble: Sultan Stevenson Trio.

  • Sultan Stevenson

    I Believe

    Ensemble: Sultan Stevenson Trio.

  • John Field

    Nocturne no.1 in E flat major H.24

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Field: Complete Nocturnes.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Four Scottish Dances: No 1, Strathspey

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Arnold.
    • Malcolm Arnold: English, Irish, Scottish & Cornish Dances: LPO/Arnold.
    • Lyrita.
    • 15.

  • Georges Bizet

    Toreador Song: Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre (Carmen)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Decca.

  • Sultan Stevenson

    El Roi

    Performer: Sultan Stevenson Trio.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 6 in D major

    Performer: Esther Yoo. Performer: Narek Hakhnazaryan. Performer: Zhang Zuo.
    • Brahms & Dvorak Piano Trios.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 11.

  • George Gershwin

    Someone to watch over me

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • Warner.

  • Claude Debussy

    Etude No.10 pour les sonorites opposees

    Performer: George Fu.

  • Franz Schubert

    Hungarian Melody in B minor

    Performer: George Fu.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude in C major, BWV 846, arr for guitar

    Performer: 脕ngel Romero.
    • Angel Romero plays Bach: Transcriptions for guitar.
    • Telarc.
    • 8.

  • Nkeiru Okoye

    And the People Celebrated

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: George Morton.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Berceuse (Dolly Suite orch Rabaud)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Beecham.
    • Sir Thomas Beecham: The French Collection.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.

  • Sulpitia Cesis

    Ecco ego Joannes

    Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia. Director: Candace Smith.
    • Tactus.

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  • Fri 28 Mar 2025 17:00
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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