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Programme information Saturday 3rd October to Friday 9th October 2020 WEEK 41 Chi-chi Nwanoku | Classic FM CHI-CHI’S CLASSICAL CHAMPIONS (1 / 6) Sunday 4th October, 9pm to 10pm Classic FM launches a brand-new Sunday night series with Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE, the renowned double-bass player and founder of the Chineke! Foundation, who makes her presenting debut on the UK’s most popular classical music station. Chi-chi’s Classical Champions shines the spotlight on Black, Asian & ethnically diverse composers and performers – those who have enjoyed success, as well as those yet to receive recognition. Each week, Chi-chi champions brilliant music; tells the stories behind the works and performances, and plays a varied range of recordings – all personally chosen by her – by artists from diverse backgrounds from the 16th century up to the present day. Classic FM is available across the UK on 100-102 FM, DAB digital radio and TV, at ClassicFM.com, and on the Classic FM and Global Player apps. 1 WEEK 41 SATURDAY 3RD OCTOBER 3pm to 5pm: MOIRA STUART’S HALL OF FAME CONCERT Moira presents an all-British programme of music from the Classic FM Hall of Fame, beginning with John Barry, and his music from the film Dances with Wolves, which was released thirty years ago this month, before a moment for the clarinet to shine in Finzi’s 5 Bagatelles. Moira also shines the spotlight on some of the country’s greatest young musicians, as star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Elgar’s Cello Concerto, and Edward Gardner conducts the National Youth Orchestra in Holst’s showstopper The Planets. John Barry Dances with Wolves – John Dunbar Theme Paul Bateman conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Gerald Finzi 5 Bagatelles Opus 23 Clarinet: Robert Plane Howard Griffiths conducts the Royal Northern Sinfonia Edward Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor Opus 85 Cello: Sheku Kanneh-Mason Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra Ronald Binge Elizabethan Serenade Ian Sutherland conducts the Philharmonic Concert Orchestra Karl Jenkins Adiemus Flute: Emma Halnan Karl Jenkins conducts the Adiemus Symphony Orchestra of Europe and London Philharmonic Choir Gustav Holst The Planets Opus 32 Edward Gardner conducts the National Youth Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Youth Chorus 2 SATURDAY 3RD OCTOBER 5pm to 7pm: SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES with ANDREW COLLINS Andrew plays scores from films that have a real-life character as their protagonist: otherwise known as biopics. He starts with John Williams’ timeless melody from Stephen Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, which recently topped the Classic FM Movie Music Hall of Fame. Maurice Jarre’s music from Lawrence of Arabia, and a work by Mozart, which underscored the Oscar-winning film Amadeus also feature. 7pm to 9pm: COWAN’S CLASSICS with ROB COWAN The programme begins with legendary German pianist Wilhelm Kempff performing one of Schubert’s sparkling masterworks, the Impromptu in A-flat major D.935 No.2. Rob recalls the fascinating story of Dvořák’s long-lost symphony, his Symphony No. 1, performed by the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserlautern, under Karel Mark Chichon; and finishes with Dame Myra Hess’ colourful arrangement of Bach’s chorale ‘Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring’. 9pm to 10pm: BEETHOVEN: THE MAN REVEALED with JOHN SUCHET (39 / 52) John explores the friendship between Beethoven and the German-born inventor and showman, Johann Nepomuk Malzel. Malzel has gone down in history as the probable inventor of the metronome, so John plays part of Beethoven’s Symphony No.8, said to be inspired by the metronome’s tick-tock rhythm. He also reveals the unusual piece that the great composer wrote for Malzel’s newly-invented “mechanical orchestra”. Later, he tells the story of the disastrous concert that lead to Beethoven realising, for the first time, that deafness meant his performing days were over. 3 SUNDAY 4TH OCTOBER 3pm to 5pm: JOHN HUMPHRYS John marks the anniversary of the premiere of American composer Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring, with its most popular movement, based on the Shaker theme ‘Simple Gifts’. He then stays Stateside, with a celebration of the music of one of the greatest voices to take to the American stage; as soprano Kathleen Battle performs Mozart. Finally, John discovers a new recording from the multi-award winning violinist Daniel Hope, whose latest album was recorded in his living room during lockdown. 5pm to 7pm: DAVID MELLOR Join David as he presents a specially curated selection of music perfect for a Sunday afternoon, including personal favourites, exciting new releases and rediscovered gems from his musical archive. 7pm to 9pm: SMOOTH CLASSICS AT SEVEN with CHARLOTTE HAWKINS Charlotte presents a selection of laidback music, specially selected to provide a moment of calm and relaxation at the end of the weekend. Charlotte shines a light on the US-born classical guitarist and conductor Michael Poll as her Young Classical Star. His debut guitar album, 7-String Bach, features Bach’s lute works played on a guitar, and was praised as “masterful” by Gramophone magazine. Michael also swaps the guitar for the baton from time to time, including leading Bloomsbury Opera’s 2018 production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, but tonight we hear him with his first love, the guitar. 4 SUNDAY 4TH OCTOBER 9pm to 10pm: CHI-CHI’S CLASSICAL CHAMPIONS (1 / 6) Classic FM launches a brand-new Sunday night series with Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE, the renowned double-bass player and founder of the Chineke! Foundation, who makes her presenting debut on the UK’s most popular classical music station. Chi-chi’s Classical Champions shines the spotlight on Black, Asian & ethnically diverse composers and performers – those who have enjoyed success, as well as those yet to receive recognition. Each week, Chi-chi champions brilliant music; tells the stories behind the works and performances, and plays a varied range of recordings – all personally chosen by her – by artists from diverse backgrounds from the 16th century up to the present day. The series is focused on classical compositions that haven’t always had a platform – with the central aim that music featured will be broadcast on other programmes across Classic FM’s schedule. The inaugural programme opens with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade in A minor, which was premiered at the Three Choirs Festival in 1898 after the composer was recommended to the festival by Edward Elgar. There’s then music by the first known female Brazilian composer, Chiquinha Gonzaga, followed by a celebrated recording of Handel featuring the soprano Kathleen Battle and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. The programme concludes with pieces by Florence Price, Adolphus Hailstork and Fela Sowande respectively. 5 MONDAY 5TH OCTOBER 8pm to 10pm: THE CLASSIC FM CONCERT with JOHN SUCHET: LIVE IN L.A. – PART 1 John begins the second week of Classic FM’s Live Music Month stateside, for the third of three nights with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, one of America’s finest ensembles, and a selection of their electrifying recordings captured live in concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. In her debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Nathalie Stutzmann conducts an all-Beethoven programme, recorded in January 2020 as part of the orchestra’s Beethoven 250 celebrations. To begin, the Coriolan Overture, before Grammy-winning pianist Emanuel Ax takes to the stage for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.3, and the programme ends with a full performance of the composer’s Symphony No.5. Ludwig van Beethoven Coriolan Overture Opus 62 Nathalie Stutzmann conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor Opus 37 Piano: Emanuel Ax Nathalie Stutzmann conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No.5 in C minor Opus 67 Nathalie Stutzmann conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra 6 TUESDAY 6TH OCTOBER 8pm to 10pm: THE CLASSIC FM CONCERT with JOHN SUCHET: LIVE IN L.A. – PART 2 For the second night across the pond with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra as part of Classic FM’s Live Music Month, Music Director of the orchestra since 2009, Gustavo Dudamel, conducts an American favourite: Copland’s Appalachian Spring. Before that, young star pianist Daniil Trifoniv joins him on-stage for a sparkling performance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1, and later the orchestra’s concertmaster Martin Chalifour takes on the role of soloist in Telemann’s Violin Concerto in A major, nicknamed ‘The Frogs’. Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 in B-flat minor Opus 23 Piano: Daniil Trifonov Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring: Suite Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Georg-Philip Telemann Violin Concerto in A major ‘The Frogs’ Violin: Martin Chalifour Emmanuelle Haïm conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra 7 WEDNESDAY 7TH OCTOBER 8pm to 10pm: THE CLASSIC FM CONCERT with JOHN SUCHET: LIVE IN L.A. – PART 3 For the final night in the company of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, as part of Classic FM’s Live Music Month, John begins with a work by the man called “the Dean of American Composers” by his contemporaries: Aaron Copland. We hear his Fanfare for the Common Man, inspired by a speech made by then American Vice President Henry Wallace in 1942, in a live recording from Walt Disney Hall in October 2019, before Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki directs the orchestra in Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ symphony. To end the programme, Bach’s Violin Concerto in G minor, adapted from one of his many keyboard concertos, and performed by Martin Chalifour in a live performance from January 2020.