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Tom talks to violinist Pekka Kuusisto

Tom Service with the perfect classical soundtrack for your Saturday. Violinist Pekka Kuusisto pops in to chat, and with Wimbledon starting Tom unpacks tennis's greatest tunes,

Tom Service talks to violinist Pekka Kuusisto, and plays the perfect classical soundtrack for Saturday morning

Pekka is one of classical music's great experimenters - equally at home in a traditional concerto, playing folk fiddle, performing contemporary repertoire, collaborating with different artists or conducting. He's in town with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra for a project called DSCH - a musical 'experience' fusing theatre, lighting and visual elements with Shostakovich's music.

Pekka talks to Tom about his work across his various musical passions and what he and his kaleidoscopic imagination plans to do next.

And with Wimbledon round the corner, Tom unpacks some of tennis's greatest tunes. Since 1976, the ±«Óătv's tennis coverage has opened with the unmistakable sound of Keith Mansfield's Light and Tuneful, Tom talks to Keith about how to write a national treasure, and we delve into research of music's effect on tennis and vice versa with the help of music and exercise expert Professor Costas Karageorghis.

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Music Played

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.3 in D major D.200 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 4.

  • Trad.

    Los guisados de la berenjena (Rhodes)

    Performer: Yaniv d'Or.
    • Naxos.
    • 8.573566.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Auf FlĂŒgeln des Gesanges (After Op. 34/2), arr. Liszt

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Liszt: Mendelssohns Lieder, S. 547: I. Auf FlĂŒgeln des Gesanges (After Op. 34/2).
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    A Night on the Bare Mountain

    Music Arranger: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition; A Night On The Bare Mountain.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 16.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Serenade in D (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: ±«Óătv Philharmonic. Conductor: Odaline de la Martinez.
    • Chandos.

  • Rune Tonsgaard SĂžrensen

    Shine You No More

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • ECM.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Concerto in E flat major Wq.47 for hpd, fortepiano and orch: 3rd mvt; Presto

    Performer: Céline Frisch. Performer: Alexander Melnikov. Orchestra: Café Zimmermann. Director: Pablo Valetti.
    • Alpha.

  • Sir James MacMillan

    Lassie wad ye Loe Me

    Ensemble: The Elysian Singers.
    • Signum.
    • SIGCD575.

  • Philip Glass

    Aguas da Amazonia (Xingu River)

    Ensemble: Third Coast Percussion.
    • Paddle to the Sea.
    • Cedille.
    • 501.

  • Richard Wagner

    The Flying Dutchman (Overture)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • The Wagner Project.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 201.

  • Claude Debussy

    Minstrels (Preludes, Book 1)

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • DECCA.

  • Thomas AdĂšs

    MÀrchentÀnze (1st mvt)

    Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • AdĂšs: Orchestral Works.
    • Ondine.
    • 10-13.

  • Traditional Finnish

    Lundgren

    Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Performer: Su-a Lee.
    • Su-a Lee.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Humeresques op.89 (no.5)

    Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta.
    • Works for Violin and Orchestra.
    • ONDINE.
    • 5.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Die Glocken (the Bells) - from Four Pieces, Op. 115

    Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Performer: Heini KÀrkkÀinen.
    • Ondine.

  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Cello Concerto, Op. 91 "Centaurus Unit" - III. Finale

    Performer: Peter Dixon. Conductor: Sachio Fujioka. Orchestra: ±«Óătv Philharmonic.
    • Yoshimatsu: The Age of Birds, Cello Concerto & Chikap.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV.645

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Edgar Meyer. Performer: Chris Thile.
    • Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer's Bach Trios.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 005.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor - 5th mvt Rondo-Finale

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 5.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Waldmeister (Excerpts): Stellt euch an

    Conductor: Dario Salvi. Orchestra: Sofia Philharmonic. Choir: Sofia Philharmonic Chorus.
    • J. Strauss II: Waldmeister (Excerpts).
    • Naxos.
    • 202.

  • The Keith Mansfield Orchestra

    Light and Tuneful

  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs)

    Music Arranger: Safri Duo. Performer: Colin Currie. Performer: Sam Walton.
    • 'Striking a Balance'.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 3, 'Eroica' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 3 and 4.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

  • Caroline Shaw

    To Music

    Music Arranger: Caroline Shaw. Music Arranger: Josh Quillen. Music Arranger: Sƍ Percussion.
    • Rectangles and Circumstance.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 10.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Invitation to the Dance Op.65

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough In Recital.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

  • Giovanni Sollima

    Il concerto perduto II. Andante (After Vivaldi RV 787 "Per Teresa")

    Performer: Giovanni Sollima. Orchestra: Il Pomo d’Oro.
    • Warner.

  • Edward Elgar

    Enigma Variations, Op 36 (Variation 14, 'E.D.U.')

    Conductor: Mark Elder. Orchestra: Hallé.
    • Elgar: Enigma Variations.
    • Halle Concerts Society.
    • 15.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in G major, H.15.25, 'Gypsy' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Gautier Capuçon.
    • Live from the Lugano Festival 2003, Martha Argerich and friends, Chamber Music.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    Joie du sang des Ă©toiles (TurangalĂźla-Symphonie)

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Performer: Cynthia Millar. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • Hyperion.

Broadcast

  • Sat 29 Jun 2024 09:00
    ±«Óătv Radio 3