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C茅cile McLorin Salvant talks tunes and tatting

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces the best classical music and stories from the arts world. She talks to the singer C茅cile McLorin Salvant and players from the Sphinx Organisation.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces the best classical music and stories from the arts world.

Sara chats to the Grammy Award-winning vocalist and composer C茅cile McLorin Salvant about her life in music and her new album "With Every Breath I Take", featuring the Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules Buckley. C茅cile talks about the role humour plays in how she chooses songs, the different voices she uses when singing in English and French, and her love of tatting lace whenever she鈥檚 not immersed in music.

Sara is joined by musicians from the Sphinx Organisation which was started by the violinist Aaron Dworkin in Detroit in 1996 to give a platform to, and develop the careers of, young Black and Latino classical musicians, and it鈥檚 still going strong with residencies, summer schools, competitions, ensembles and more. Violinists Elena Urioste and Nathan Amaral, violist Celia Hatton, cellist Sterling Elliot and pianist Amiri Harewood perform music by Florence Price and Ralph Vaughan Williams and talk to Sara about how being part of Sphinx has shaped their musical paths.

Our focus on Creators continues with Glynis Jones who was a member of the 91福利社 Radiophonic Workshop in the 1970s. As the 91福利社 moves out of its legendary Maida Vale Studios, Glynis reflects on what daily life was like there in the Radiophonic Workshop and how the legacy of the sounds she and her colleagues created can still be heard on television and radio today.

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3 hours

Music Played

  • Francesco Maria Veracini

    Concerto in D major for 8 instruments (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Chouchane Siranossian. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.
    • Duello d鈥檃rchi a Venezia.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 3.
  • Benjamin Britten

    4 Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Dawn)

    Orchestra: 91福利社 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.
  • Augusta Holm猫s

    S茅r茅nade d'脡t茅 (S茅r茅nades)

    Singer: Mary Bevan. Performer: Joseph Middleton. Ensemble: Ruisi Quartet.
    • Visions Illumin茅es.
    • Signum Records.
    • 23.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony no.3 in G minor Op.36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Erato.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano concerto no.1 in F major K.37 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Mishka Rushdie Momen. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • Alpha Classics.
  • Josquin des Prez

    Ave Maria, virgo serena

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Decca.
  • Camille Saint-Sa毛ns

    Tarantelle in A minor Op.6

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Paul Meyer. Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Conductor: Fran莽ois Leleux.
    • Warner.
  • Matthew Locke

    The Tempest (Curtain Tune)

    Orchestra: Vox Orchester. Conductor: Lorenzo Ghirlanda.
    • Purcell & Locke: Orchestral Works.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 16.
  • David Chalmin

    Eclipse

    Performer: Katia Lab猫que. Performer: Marielle Lab猫que. Performer: Bryce Dessner. Performer: David Chalmin.
    • Sonic Wires (Deluxe Edition).
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 13.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.61 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Z眉rich. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphonies.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 1.
  • C茅cile McLorin Salvant

    Melusine

    Singer: C茅cile McLorin Salvant. Performer: Daniel Swenberg.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Michel Legrand

    Les Parapluies De Cherbourg

    Singer: C茅cile McLorin Salvant. Orchestra: Metropole Orkest. Conductor: Jules Buckley.
    • Nonesuch.
  • C茅cile McLorin Salvant

    Anything but now

    • Nonesuch.
  • Duke Ellington

    Sophisticated Lady

    Singer: C茅cile McLorin Salvant. Orchestra: Metropole Orkest. Conductor: Jules Buckley.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin sonata no.5 in F major Op.24 'Spring' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Performer: Alasdair Beatson.
    • Beethoven: Violin Sonatas 4, 5 & 7.
    • Signum Records.
    • 5.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    La Primavera (Trittico Botticelliano)

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Frizza.
    • Italian Perspectives.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 6.
  • Nico Muhly

    The Revd Mustard his Installation Prelude

    Performer: James McVinnie.
    • Bedroom Community.
  • Giovanni Battista Sammartini

    Sonata per l'armandolino in G major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Duilio Galfetti. Performer: Luca Pianca.
    • Italian Sonatas for Mandoline.
    • Passacaille.
    • 9.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Rondo (6 Short Pieces)

    Performer: Amiri Harewood.
    • 91福利社 recording.
  • Florence Price

    Piano quintet in A minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Sphinx Virtuosi.
    • 91福利社 recording.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony no.9 in E minor Op.95 'From The New World' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • REFERENCE RECORDINGS.
  • Donnacha Dennehy

    Piano concerto 'Limina' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Eliza McCarthy. Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland. Conductor: Ryan McAdams.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Les Sir猫nes

    Choir: Orpheus Vokalensemble. Performer: Antonii Baryshevskyi. Conductor: Michael Alber.
    • Carus.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Magnificat in D major BWV.243 (opening)

    Choir: The Sixteen. Orchestra: The Symphony of Harmony and Invention. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Vivaldi Gloria / Bach Magnificat.
    • Coro.
    • 13.
  • Glynis Jones

    Schlum Rooli

    • 91福利社 Records and Tapes.
  • Glynis Jones

    Veils and Mirrors

    • 91福利社 Records and Tapes.
  • Claude Debussy

    Pagodes (Estampes)

    Music Arranger: Percy Grainger. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Sarabande

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • PENTATONE.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony no.2 in D major Op.73 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies.
    • Linn Records.
    • 8.

Broadcast

  • Sat 11 Jul 2026 09:00