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Tamsin Greig, Adrian Brendel, Elmore Quartet

Petroc Trelawny talks to the actor Tamsin Greig about Royal Opera's La Fille du régiment, and cellist Adrian Brendel and Elmore Quartet ahead of the new Tree of Strings Festival.

Petroc Trelawny talks to the acclaimed actor Tamsin Greig who will play the Duchesse de Crakentorp in Royal Opera's production of Donizetti’s La Fille du régiment.
Cellist Adrian Brendel talks about his new charitable music project Tree of Strings and there's live music from the Elmore Quartet ahead of their appearance at the Tree of Strings Festival.

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in D minor for two violins, BWV 1043 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Petra Müllejans. Performer: Gottfried von der Goltz. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Trad.

    Ah! Si Mon Moine Voulait Danser (Four Songs of Early Canada)

    Performer: Ruth Watson Henderson. Music Arranger: Donald Patriquin. Choir: Toronto Children’s Chorus. Director: Jean Ashworth Bartle.
    • Marquis Classics.
  • Jean Coulthard

    Billowing fields of golden wheat (Canada Mosaic)

    Orchestra: CBC Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Mario Bernardi.
    • CBC Records.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Trio in E flat major Op 38, arr from Septet (5th mvt)

    Performer: Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro. Performer: Pascal Moraguès. Performer: Adrian Brendel.
    • Beethoven: Trios for piano, clarinet and cello, Ops. 11 & 38.
    • Paraty.
    • 108.
  • Edward Elgar

    Carissima

    Conductor: Vasily Petrenko. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Elgar: Symphony No. 2, Carissima, Mina, Chanson de Matin.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 5.
  • Scott Joplin

    Maple Leaf Rag

    Performer: Katia & Marielle Labèque.
    • Gladrags - Works by Joplin, Mayerl etc.: Katia & Marielle Labeque.
    • EMI.
    • 7.
  • Maurice Ravel

    String Quartet in F major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Elmore Quartet.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • Conifer.
  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Sonata No 3 in B flat major ZWV 181/3 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Ángel Luis Sánchez Moreno. Performer: Ramón Ortega Quero. Performer: Marc Trénel. Performer: Wies de Boevé. Performer: Alfonso Sebastián Alegre.
    • Genuin.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Ballade no.3 in A flat major Op.47

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • SONY.
  • Kenneth Fuchs

    Discover the Wild

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • American Classical Masterpieces.
    • Naxos Special Projects.
    • 137.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance No 9 in B major, Op 72

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 & 72.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major Op 76 No 5 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Elmore Quartet.
  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    Children's Intermezzo (Othello)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Fawzi Haimor.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Othello, Op. 79: II. Children's Intermezzo.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo alla turca (Piano Sonata No 11 in A major, K 331)

    Music Arranger: Canadian Brass. Ensemble: Canadian Brass.
    • Sony.
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    La fille du régiment (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • DECCA.
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Chacun le sait (La fille du régiment)

    Lyricist: Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges. Lyricist: Jean Francois Alfred Bayard. Singer: Joan Sutherland. Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Singer: Spiro Malas. Choir: Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 7.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Where'er you walk (Semele, HWV.58)

    Music Arranger: Andreas N. Tarkmann. Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Orchestra: Sinfonia Varsovia.
    • New Seasons.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 13.
  • George Butterworth

    Is my team ploughing? (6 Songs from 'A Shropshire Lad')

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Iain Burnside.
    • George Butterworth, Songs from A Shropshire Lad: Williams / Burnside.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Trio for violin, cello and piano No.2 in E Minor Op.92 IV.Grazioso, poco allegro

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Edgar Moreau. Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Erato.

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