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Chamber music by Helen Leach live in studio. Lara Bickerton and Laurentia Editha on Blue Planet III

New chamber music by Helen Leach live in studio. Series producer Lara Bickerton and composer Laurentia Editha on Blue Planet III.

Composer Helen Leach joins Katie on In Tune ahead of the release of her new album of chamber music, a Window to the Stars. Pianist Simon Leach, clarinettist John Bradbury and cellist Adrian Bradbury also play live from the album.

The BBC has confirmed that Blue Planet III will air on BBC 1 on the 1st of November. Series producer Lara Bickerton reflects on making the programme and composer Laurentia Editha chats to Katie about collaborating on the score with Hans Zimmer and Thom Lukas.

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Music Played

  • Zoltán Kodály

    Prelude (Hary Janos Suite Op 35a)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Philips.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne No 3 in B

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Chopin: Nocturnes.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 4.

  • Paul Mealor

    Ubi caritas

    Choir: Tenebrae. Director: Nigel Short.
    • Paul Mealor: A Tender Light.
    • Decca.
    • 14.

  • Helen Leach

    Prelude for a Swan

    Performer: Adrian Bradbury. Performer: Simon Leach.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Che gelida manina (La Bohème)

    Singer: Rolando Villazón. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bertrand de Billy.
    • Rolando Villazon: Tenor.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 8.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No 1, 'Classical' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf; Classical Symphony Op.25; March Op.99; Overture O.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quintet no 3 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Mozart: String Quintets K. 515 & 516.
    • HYPERION.
    • 3.

  • Cole Porter

    Red, Hot and Blue

    Singer: Ethel Merman. Ensemble: Fairchild and Carroll and Their Orchestra.
    • "But in the Morning, No!" Cole Porter Vol 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 12.

  • Helen Leach

    Winter: Window to the Stars

    Performer: John Bradbury. Performer: Simon Leach.

  • Henry Purcell

    Abdelazer: Incidental music

    Ensemble: Oslo Cirles.
    • One Charming Night.
    • Simax Classics.
    • 1.

  • Roger Quilter

    O mistress mine (3 Shakespeare songs Op 6)

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • NAXOS.

  • Gustav Holst

    Mercury, the Winged Messenger (The Planets)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Holst: The Planets / Percy Grainger: The Warriors.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Helen Leach

    As the Feet of a Deer II. By the Waters

    Performer: John Bradbury. Performer: Adrian Bradbury. Performer: Simon Leach.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Lezghinka (Gayane)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • Khachaturian: Spartacus; Gayaneh.
    • Onyx.
    • 9.

  • Lili Boulanger

    Nocturne

    Performer: Sofia Demetriades. Performer: Simon Callaghan.

  • Trad.

    Du Ar Den Forsta

    Music Arranger: Anna Maria Friman. Performer: Arve Henriksen. Ensemble: Trio Mediæval.
    • Trio Mediaeval & Arve Henriksen.
    • ECM.
    • 13.

  • Hans Zimmer

    White Calf

    Composer: Thom Lukas. Composer: Laurentia Editha.

  • Hans Zimmer

    Harlequin Shrimps; Rival Hunters

    Composer: Thom Lukas. Composer: Laurentia Editha.

  • Hans Zimmer

    Crater Nests

    Composer: Thom Lukas. Composer: Laurentia Editha.

  • Hans Zimmer

    Menhaden Migration

    Composer: Thom Lukas. Composer: Laurentia Editha.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony no 2 in E minor Op 27 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2, Prelude in C# Minor.
    • Chandos.
    • 103.

  • Niccolò Paganini

    Sonata in A major, Op 3 No 1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Performer: Göran Söllscher.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 5.

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    BBC Radio 3

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