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Conductor Nathalie Stutzmann on going big with Bruckner

Tom Service with the perfect classical soundtrack for the weekend! Tom meets conductor Nathalie Stutzmann to chat about her landmark new recording of Bruckner's music.

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

Tom meets conductor and singer Nathalie Stutzmann to talk about recording Bruckner's massive 4th Symphony. Remarkably her new Bruckner recording is the first time a woman has recorded the piece with a major US orchestra. Described as "a genius who makes the music irresistible" Nathalie chats to Tom about straddling her many musical worlds from Bruckner and Bach to Wagner's operas, why she believes in being a risky conductor and the music she fell in love with as a child.

Composer Sally Beamish talks to Tom about celebrating her 70th birthday with a new album called 'House of Wonder' a love letter to her instrument - the viola - and her friends and family who have written and collaborated with her on it - including her daughter, who made her the viola that inspired her to start playing again after 20 years.

Tom talks to the experimental musical duo KOGG: AKA composers Selena Kay and Cerys Hogg. Both formally trained - Selena has her roots in contemporary classical composition and Cerys in jazz improvisation - their new album Mechanista is built from everyday objects that they construct into electronic instruments: spanners, toy whistles, brass, elastic bands and broken piano keys. They talk about blending composition, DIY sound invention and playfulness in their music.

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Music Played

  • Gaspar Sanz

    Canarios

    Ensemble: Ensemble NAYA. Ensemble: Barrocade. Conductor: Amit Tiefenbrunn.
    • Latino Ladino: Songs of Exile & Passion.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Villanelle (Les nuits d'été Op.7)

    Singer: Véronique Gens. Orchestra: Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon. Conductor: Louis Langrée.
    • Berlioz: Les Nuits d'été.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.61 (Nocturne)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

    Sinfonietta no.2 'Generations' (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Sphinx Virtuosi.
    • American Mirror.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
  • Ruth Crawford Seeger

    Risselty rosselty

    Ensemble: Schönberg Ensemble. Conductor: Oliver Knussen.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano trio in G major Op.1 no.2 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Busch Trio.
    • Beethoven: The Piano Trios, Vol. 2.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 4.
  • Carlos Simon

    Tales - A Folklore Symphony (Motherboxx Connection)

    Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Carlos Simon: Tales – A Folklore Symphony: I. Motherboxx Connection.
    • National Symphony Orchestra.
    • 101.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Magnificat in D major BWV.243 (Magnificat anima mea)

    Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • 3 Bach Magnificats: J.S. Bach, J.C. Bach & C.P.E. Bach.
    • Hyperion.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Bruremarsj Etter Myllarguten

    Performer: Knut Buen.
    • Edvard Grieg: Slåtter.
    • Simax Classics.
    • 15.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Bruremarsj Etter Myllarguten

    Performer: Einar Steen-Nøkleberg.
    • Edvard Grieg: Slåtter.
    • Simax Classics.
    • 16.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Tuba concerto in F minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: Perry Hoogendijk. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Dima Slobodeniouk.
    • Vaughan Williams: Tuba Concerto.
    • Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
    • 1.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Whispered Lullaby

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Dasol Kim.
    • Tabakova: Sun Triptych.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.6 in C major D.589 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Schubert: Symphonies No. 5 & No. 6.
    • Sony Music Labels Inc..
    • 1.
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Chaconne L'inconstante (Suite in D minor)

    Performer: Sarah Cahill.
    • The Future is Female, Vol. 2: The Dance.
    • First Hand Records.
    • 4.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Suite in A major Op.98 'American' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nathalie Stutzmann.
    • Erato.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony no.4 in E flat major 'Romantic' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nathalie Stutzmann.
    • Erato.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony no.9 in E minor Op.95 'From the New World' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nathalie Stutzmann.
    • Erato.
  • William Byrd

    O God, the proud are risen against me

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • The Tallis Scholars Sing William Byrd.
    • Gimell.
    • 12.
  • Miles Davis

    The Pan Piper

    Music Arranger: Gil Evans. Performer: Miles Davis. Orchestra: Unknown Studio Orchestra.
    • Sketches of Spain.
    • CBS.
    • 003.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Concert champêtre (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Justin Taylor. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille. Conductor: Chloé Dufresne.
    • Clavecin XX.
    • ALPHA.
    • 12.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Where'er you walk (Semele)

    Singer: Allan Clayton. Orchestra: Orchestra of Classical Opera. Conductor: Ian Page.
    • Where'er You Walk.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1402.
  • Quincy Jones

    The Midnight Sun will Never Set

    Music Arranger: Owen Broder. Ensemble: WindSync.
    • Nadia.
    • Delos.
    • 12.
  • Stephanie Irvine

    House of Wonder

    Performer: Stephanie Irvine. Performer: Sally Beamish.
    • Delphian.
  • Tom Irvine

    Where You Are

    Performer: Sally Beamish.
    • Delphian.
  • Sally Beamish

    Crescent

    Performer: Sally Beamish.
    • Delphian.
  • Sally Beamish

    Seavaigers (Haven)

    Performer: Chris Stout. Performer: Catriona McKay. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • McKay Stout Music.
  • Jean Mouton

    Nesciens mater virgo virum

    Ensemble: Early Music Consort of London. Conductor: David Munrow.
    • The Art of the Netherlands.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano concerto no.3 in D minor Op.30 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Destination Rachmaninoff: Arrival.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 6.
  • KOGG

    The Count

    Performer: KOGG.
    • NonClassical.
  • KOGG

    Mechanista

    Performer: KOGG.
    • NonClassical.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Laudate Dominum (Vesperae solennes de confessore K.339)

    Singer: Danielle de Niese. Choir: The Apollo Voices. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • The Mozart Album: Danielle de Niese/OAE/Mackerras.
    • Decca.
    • 12.
  • Robert Schumann

    String quartet in A major Op.41 no.3 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Chandos.

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