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Leonidas Kavakos looking at the camera while holding his violin
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Classical music

Masterclass with Leonidas Kavakos

'A great violinist at the top of his game' (Gramophone), Leonidas Kavakos shares his expertise with burgeoning young musicians from Guildhall School.

Leonidas Kavakos violin
Guildhall School musicians
An image of the Roman colosseum, with green and blue colours overlaid and circular swirls framing the image
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Classical music

BBC SO Total Immersion: Italian Radicals

Miniatures by Berio, Maderna, Nono and Dallapiccola, introduced and performed live by virtuoso instrumentalists and singers from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Luciano Berio O King
Bruno Maderna Honeyrêves
Luigi Nono sofferte onde serene
Luigi Dallapiccola Ciaccona, Intermezzo e Adagio
Bruno Maderna Serenata per in satellite
Viola
Guildhall School musicians
Images of the composers in the concert arranged in six rows on the right side of the frame, with a black and white paintbrush stroke design on the left side.
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Classical music

Britten Sinfonia and the Marian Consort

The radical spirit of 16th-century composer Carlo Gesualdo is the point of departure for this programme of ancient and modern music.

Gilles Binchois Two Chansons (arr for strings by Lisa Illean)
John Dunstable Regina Caeli
Thomas Adès Darknesse visible
Lisa Illean arcing, stilling, bending, gathering (UK premiere, Britten Sinfonia co-commission)
Vicente Lusitano Heu me Domine
Allor che ignuda
Carlo Gesualdo Moro lasso
Hei mihi Domine
Sparge la morte
Brett Dean Carlo
Britten Sinfonia
The Marian Consort
Rev Richard Coles standing in a walled garden, smiling at the camera
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Classical music

BBC Singers with Rev Richard Coles: Murder at the Monastery

Ahead of the June publication of his new novel, Rev Richard Coles reads extracts of his new book, joining the BBC Singers who perform iconic choral classics to set the scene.

Sofi Jeannin conductor
Rev Richard Coles* narrator
BBC Singers
Photo of Fatma Said from the side, her head partially obscured by the red sleeve of her raised arm
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Classical music

Fatma Said and Joseph Middleton

Soprano Fatma Said and pianist Joseph Middleton give a recital that contrasts songs on nocturnal theme by Mozart, Schubert and Robert Schumann with sunnier Spanish repertoire.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Als Luise die Briefe ihres Liebhabers verbrannte
Abendempfindung
Der Zauberer
Franz Schubert Rastlose Liebe
Nachtviolen
Ganymed
'Ständchen' from Schwanengesang
Robert Schumann 'Meine Rose' from Sechs Gedichte von Nikolaus Lenau und Requiem
'Frühlingsnacht' from Liederkreis
'Mond meiner Seele Liebling' from 7 Lieder
'Liebeslied' from Lieder und Gesänge, Vol 2
'Singet nicht mit Trauertönen' from Lieder und Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister
'Widmung' from Myrthen
Manuel De Falla Siete canciones populares
Tus Ojillos Negros
Fernando Obradors 'Del cabello más sutil' from Canciones Clásicas Españolas, Vol 1
Jose Serrano Marinela
Najib Hankash Aatini al Naya Wa ghanni
Fatma Said soprano
Joseph Middleton piano
Fatma Said leaning against a while pillar looking at the camera
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Classical music

Masterclass with Fatma Said

A soprano with a 'startlingly beautiful voice' (Limelight), Fatma Said shares the stage with talented young musicians from Guildhall School in an intimate evening masterclass.

Fatma Said soprano
Guildhall School musicians
Painting of Ignatius Sancho
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Classical music

Academy of Ancient Music: Sons of England

Countertenor Reginald Mobley and AAM explore a different vision of the English baroque: in which the music of Purcell, Handel and Ignatius Sancho redefined the culture of a nation.

John Dowland Lachrimæ Antiquae from Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares
Melancholy Galliard
Henry Purcell 'Britain, thou art now great' from Why, why are all the Muses mute?
'Music for a while' from Oedipus
Keyboard Ground in D minor
'Here the deities approve' from Welcome to all the pleasures
'Strike the viol' from Come, Ye Sons of Art
Trio Sonata in E minor
O solitude, my sweetest choice
John Blow 'So ceased the rival crew', 'We beg not hell, our Orpheus to restore' and 'The power of Harmony too well they know' from An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell
Attrib Cesare Morelli, Samuel Pepys Beauty retire
Ah! How pleasant 'tis to love
Go, perjured man! And if thou e'er return
Beauty, thou scene of love
Francesco Geminiani Concerto Grosso in D minor, La Follia (after Corelli Op 5 No 12)
Thomas Arne Sweet muse inspire thy suppliant bard
Jean Baptiste Loeillet Sonata in A minor for Flute and Continuo, Op 3 No 4
George Frideric Handel Keyboard Sonata
Mi palpita il cor
Charles Ignatius Sancho (arr Nico Canzano) Suite of Songs and Dances
Roderick Williams From Ignatius Sancho (world premiere)
Academy of Ancient Music
Laurence Cummings director and harpsichord
Reginald Mobley countertenor
Members of the Fourth Choir singing on stage
Event
Classical music

Classical Pride: My Beloved Man

My Beloved Man – a celebration by the Fourth Choir, London’s LGBTQ+ classical choir, of the love affair between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears.

Henry Purcell Thou knowest Lord the secrets of our hearts
Samuel Barber The Coolin
Pérotin Beata Viscera III
Imogen Holst The Cobbler
Sweet Country
Benjamin Britten The Ballad of Green Broom
Aaron Copland Help Us O Lord
Michael Tippett 'Deep River' from A Child of Our Time
Benjamin Britten 'Time' (Choral Dance 1) from Gloriana
'Concord (Choral Dance 2) from Gloriana
Thomas Morley Hard by a Crystal Fountain
Claudio Monteverdi 'Che dar più vi poss’io' from Madrigals, Book 5
'Io mi son giovinetta' from Madrigals, Book 4
Imogen Holst A Hymne to Christ
Leonard Bernstein 'Somewhere' from West Side Story
Benjamin Britten Hymn to the Virgin
Henry Purcell (arr Nicholas Chalmers) Dido’s Lament
Isobel Waller-Bridge New work (world premiere)
The Fourth Choir
Petroc Trelawny presenter
Nicholas Chalmers conductor
Séamus Rea concept and script
A deer in a forest
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Classical music

Academy of Ancient Music: Actéon and Pygmalion

Charpentier’s Actéon and Rameau’s Pygmalion: two mythological mini-masterpieces of baroque opera, in an exuberant concert performance.

Marc-Antoine Charpentier Actéon
Jean-Philippe Rameau Pygmalion
Academy of Ancient Music
Laurence Cummings director & harpsichord
Anna Dennis soprano
Rachel Redmond soprano
Katie Bray mezzo-soprano
Thomas Walker tenor
The Dudok Quartet playing their instruments. They are positioned in a close huddle, each person facing a different direction. They are against a cream coloured background.
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Classical music

Dudok Quartet: Abandoned Voices

Alongside something hot off the press, death, despair, and eternity stalk the Dudoks’ typically ear-opening programme in which Messiaen tempers the anguished ardour of Gesualdo and Schubert.

Olivier Messiaen (arr Dudok Quartet) Oraison
Bushra El Turk Three Tributes
Carlo Gesualdo (arr Dudok Quartet) 'Deh come invan sospiro' from Libro Sesto Madrigali
Franz Schubert String Quartet No 14, Death and the Maiden
Dudok Quartet
Dilshad and Jayanthi
Event
Classical music Contemporary music

Dilshad Khan + Jayanthi Kumaresh

Experience the mastery of India's premier sarangi virtuoso as he mesmerises with soulful ragas, followed by the hypnotic sounds of the veena by Jayanthi Kumaresh.

Anindo and Anubratta Chatterjee playing the tabla, smiling at each other
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Classical music Contemporary music

Pandit Anindo and Anubrata Chatterjee

Witness a much-awaited, turbo charged tabla duet by India’s finest tabla legend with his son Anubrata.

Pandit Anindo Chatterjee tabla
Anubrata Chatterjee tabla
Dilshad Khan sarangi
Jasdeep and Shalmalee
Event
Classical music Contemporary music

Jasdeep Singh Degun + Shalmalee Joshi

Experience a double bill of sitar brilliance by Jasdeep Singh Degun followed by Joshi's impeccable execution of the Jaipur-Atruli style of khayal.

A statue of a Viennese gentleman
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Classical music

Academy of Ancient Music: Viennese Virtuosity

Musical metamorphoses: Mozart, Haydn and their colleagues come together as AAM celebrates a friendship that transformed music for ever.

Johann Baptist Wanhal Symphony in D major, BryVa D17
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No 36, Linz
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf Symphony No 4 from Symphonies after Ovid’s Metamorphosis
Joseph Haydn Symphony No 80
Academy of Ancient Music
Laurence Cummings director & harpsichord
Samantha Ege sat in front of a grand piano
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Classical music

Her Stories with Samantha Ege

‘Bold, brilliant, and daring women’ nourish Samantha Ege’s recital of 20th and 21st century piano music, including a work by Havanan ‘fusionista’ Camila Cortina Bello. 

Florence Price Piano Sonata
Camila Cortina Bello Bravura
Odaline de la Martinez Studies in Rhythm
Chen Yi Variations on Awariguli
Gabriela Ortiz Preludio e Estudio No 3
Samantha Ege piano