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Marin Alsop

Petroc Trelawny talks to conductor Marin Alsop ahead of tonight's Prom, and with director Kate Fahy about new play - Holy Fool - about Shostakovich's struggles with Stalin’s regime.

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Music Played

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 Classical: IV. Finale. Molto vivace

    Conductor: Marin Alsop. Orchestra: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra.
    • Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2, Dreams Op.6.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

  • William Lawes

    Gather ye rosebuds while ye may

    Performer: Sylvain Bergeron. Singer: Suzie LeBlanc. Ensemble: Les Voix humaines.
    • Primavera.
    • ATMA Classique.
    • 7.

  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    African Dance (African Suite)

    Music Arranger: Chris Cameron. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Suite in A minor, TWV 55:A2 'Air a l'Italien'

    Ensemble: Ensemble Hesperi. Ensemble: The Buskaid Soweto String Project.

  • Cole Porter

    High society (Overture)

    Orchestra: John Wilson Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Cole Porter in Hollywood.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
    • 9.

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (Chaconne of the Scaramouches)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Jean-Baptiste Lully: L'Orchestre Du Roi Soleil: Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Sa.
    • Alia Vox.

  • Thomas Tallis

    Spem in alium

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • GIMELL.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Act I, Scene II; Interlude

    Orchestra: National Theater Opera Orchestra of Paris. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • DG.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No 5 in D minor, Op 47 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Symphonies Nos. 5 and 9.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Les Sauvages

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • DG.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Masquerade - suite (Waltz)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Stanley Black.
    • Khachaturian - Spartacus.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

  • Scott Joplin

    The Entertainer

    Performer: Marcus Roberts. Music Arranger: Marcus Roberts.
    • Marcus Roberts: The Joy of Joplin.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Slava!

    Orchestra: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Bernstein: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Suite, Slava!, CBS Music & A Bernstein Birth.
    • Naxos.
    • 201.

  • Samuel Barber

    Essay for orchestra No 1, Op 12

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Barber: Symphonies nos. 1 & 2: Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Alsop.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Rest

    Lyricist: Christina Rossetti. Ensemble: Singer Pur.
    • Sounds of William.
    • belvedere edition.
    • 106.

  • Théodore Dubois

    Suite in F minor (4th mvt)

    Performer: Cédric Tiberghien. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Dubois - Concerto-Capriccioso; Piano Concerto No 2; Suite.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

  • John Hughes

    Cwm Rhondda (Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Choir: The Black Mountain Male Chorus. Choir: Risca Male Choir. Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Gareth Jones.
    • Bryn Terfel - We'll Keep A Welcome.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 10.

  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor Op.17 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Performer: Pablo Ferrández. Performer: Lambert Orkis.
    • Sony Masterworks.

  • Jerome Kern

    Show Boat, Act 1: "Life Upon the Wicked Stage"

    Composer: Oscar Hammerstein II. Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

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    BBC Radio 3

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