Tom Service with guests, stories and the perfect classical soundtrack to start the weekend.
Tom plays classical music to start your weekend and is ed by world renowned Carducci String Quartet for a special performance of music by Dmitri Shostakovich and Philip Glass. They discuss cellist Emma's family connection to Shostakovich and how his music and his life story resonate today.
Ahead of her performance with the London Sinfonietta, pianist, composer and sound artist Maya Dunietz talks about her close relationship and collaboration with the Ethiopian musician and nun, Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru who died in 2023 at the age of 99. Emahoy's music has been heard more and more in recent years, thanks in part to Maya's help putting together a book of her piano works. Now Maya has arranged a selection of these pieces for piano and strings, something Emahoy dreamt might happen one day.
Plus the continuation of BBC Radio 3’s 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century – a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. This week, Views from the M9 by Glaswegian composer Aileen Sweeney is inspired by one of the largest pieces of public art in the UK, The Kelpies. A pair of monumental steel horse-heads by sculptor Andy Scott between Falkirk and Grangemouth, they were unveiled in 2014, just months before the Scottish Referendum. It’s recorded by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
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