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Alexis Ffrench live in session

Composer and pianist Alexis Ffrench joins Katie Derham live in studio to perform music from his new album "24", out now on Sony. Katie also talks to tenor Joseph Calleja, who is in Wexford to star in Mascagni's Iris, opening the Wexford Festival Opera with performances 15 - 31/10.

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Music Played

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Espana

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.
    • Onyx Classics.

  • John Rutter

    Suite Lyrique (3rd mvt, Aria)

    Performer: Catrin Finch. Orchestra: Sinfonia Cymru. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • DG.

  • Jean‐Marie Leclair

    Sonata in G minor Op.12 No.5; I. Allegro

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • Hell’s Angels.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 115.

  • Alexis Ffrench

    Coffee Song

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No.1 in D, 4th mvt: Allegro vivace

    Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Heinz Holliger.
    • Sony.

  • Florence Price

    Night

    Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Performer: Jâms Coleman. Music Arranger: Tom Poster.
    • Path to the Moon.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Havanaise Op.83

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Virgin.

  • Alexis Ffrench

    Where the Sunrise Finds Me

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 40 in G minor, K 550 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphonies 38 - 41 Scottish Chamber Orchestra Sir Charle.
    • Linn.
    • 3.

  • Lionel Bart

    Oliver! - musical: Food, glorious food!

    Choir: Original London Cast. Orchestra: Oliver! Orchestra.
    • DECCA.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker Suite (Miniature Overture)

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Alexis Ffrench

    In Flight, A Friend in You, Blackbird Rising, Midnight Dreamer [medley]

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Elijah, Op. 70: "For He Shall Give His Angels" (Double Quartet)

    Singer: Emily Rowley Jones. Singer: Susan Gilmour Bailey. Singer: Lucy Ballard. Singer: Samuel Boden. Singer: Richard Rowntree. Singer: Robert Davies. Singer: William Gaunt. Singer: Ruth Gibbins. Conductor: Paul McCreesh. Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Choir: Gabrieli Consort.
    • Mendelssohn: Elijah, 1846.
    • Signum Records.
    • 9.

  • Abdullah Ibrahim

    Maraba Blue

    Ensemble: Abdullah Ibrahim Trio.
    • Cape Town Flowers.
    • Tiptoe.
    • 10.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 59 in A Major, Hob. I:59, "The Fire Symphony": II. Andante...

    Conductor: Rebecca Miller. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 52, 53 & 59.
    • Signum Records.
    • 2.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    E lucevan le stelle (Tosca)

    Singer: Joseph Calleja. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Marco Armiliato.
    • Decca.

  • Pietro Mascagni

    Cavalleria rusticana: "Mamma, quel vino è generoso"

    Singer: Joseph Calleja. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Steven Mercurio.
    • Be My Love - A Tribute To Mario Lanza.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 8.

  • George Walker

    Lyric for Strings

    Ensemble: Pacifica Quartet.
    • American Portraits.
    • Cedille Records.
    • 105.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Penguin Dance (Scott of the Antarctic)

    Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Film Music Vol. 1.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 7.

  • Franz Schubert

    Schwanengesang, S.560: No. 7, Ständchen

    Performer: Antony Peebles. Music Arranger: Franz Liszt.
    • Schubert Songs Transcribed by Liszt, Vol. 1.
    • Meridian Records.
    • 14.

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  • Yesterday17:00
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