Embracing The Classical
Mark Tully and composer James MacMillan discuss the benefits of reaching out to new audiences with classical music. With music from the Scottish Symphony Orchestra tour of India.
Luciano Pavarotti said it was "so important at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera." Mark Tully and composer James MacMillan discuss the cross-cultural benefits of sharing classical traditions with new audiences and the power of music to unite.
The two first met during the ±«Óãtv Scottish Symphony Orchestra's tour of India earlier this year. Most of the music in this programme is taken from those concerts, as well as from the family concerts which accompanied them, where young audiences got their first introduction to Western classical traditions.
Mark and James compare the classical traditions of East and West and consider the exciting opportunities for music in a new global culture.
With music by Bizet, Schoenberg and Tchaikovsky and readings from Coleridge, Joyce Grenfell and Alice Herz-Sommer.
The readers are Jane Whittenshaw, David Westhead and Francis Cadder.
Produced by Frank Stirling
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Gordon Cree
A medley of Eightsome Reels
Performer: ±«Óãtv Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Performer: James MacMillan.- Live recording by Radio 3 of a concert in Mumbai.
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Georges Bizet
Carmen
Performer: ±«Óãtv Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Performer: James MacMillan.- Live recording by Radio 3 of a concert in Mumbai.
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Arnold Schoenberg
De profundis (Psalm 130), Op. 50b
Performer: Robert Craft.- Schoenberg: Violin Concerto; A Survivor from Warsaw.
- Naxos.
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Frédéric Chopin
12 Etudes, Op. 10: No. 3 In E Major, "Tristesse" (Sadness)
Performer: Ä°dil Biret.- The Very Best Of Frederic Chopin.
- Naxos.
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Duke Ellington, Jimmy Hamilton
Overture
- Nutcracker Suite.
- Hallmark Recordings.
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Arturo Márquez
Danzon No. 2
Performer: Simón BolÃvar Youth Orchestra. Performer: Gustavo Dudamel.- Deutsche Grammophon.
- Fiesta.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4
Performer: ±«Óãtv Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Performer: James MacMillan.- Live recording by Radio 3 of a concert in Mumbai.
Readings
Title: Nursery School
Author: Joyce Grenfell
Published in ‘George, Don't Do That’ by Hodder & Stoughton
Title: A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer
Author: Melissa Muller, Reinhard Piechocki
Published by Pan
Title: Lines Composed in a Concert-Room
Author: S.T. Coleridge
Published in The Music Lover's Literary Companion by JR Books Ltd
Title: Merchant of Venice
Author: William Shakespeare
Broadcasts
- Sun 2 Nov 2014 06:05±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Sun 2 Nov 2014 23:30±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Sun 27 Jun 2021 06:05±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Sun 27 Jun 2021 23:30±«Óãtv Radio 4