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Live from Los Angeles

Georgia Mann presents live from the City of Angels, including a visit to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and live music from film music pianist and conductor, Scott Dunn.

The final leg of Radio 3's trip across the US, celebrating the country's contribution to classical music.

Live from the heart of Studio City, just north of the Hollywood hills, Georgia Mann presents a musical portrait of the City of Angels. She takes a trip down the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which has recognised many giants of the music world, from Leonard Bernstein to Duke Ellington, Ennio Morricone to Thelonious Monk, and delves into the archives of the Hollywood Bowl, the LA Philharmonic's summer home. She meets the Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, who's spent much of his career with the orchestras of the West Coast, in LA and San Francisco, and this weekend conducts a series of concerts with the LA Phil and the LA Master Chorale. Members of the multi-Grammy Award-winning choir tell Georgia about their mission to create music with and for the diverse communities of LA.

Georgia links up with the composer and environmental activist Gabriella Smith, who grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and makes music which transports audiences into sonic landscapes inspired by the natural world.

Tapping into music of the movies, there's exclusive live performance in the studio from film music pianist-conductor-arranger Scott Dunn, one-time regular piano-duet partner with Richard Rodney Bennett, whose forthcoming album with the Britten Sinfonia celebrates the 'Hollywood Modernists'. And with the show being the morning after the star-studded 83rd Golden Globe Awards, Georgia reflects on this year's musical winners, with the best original score category including nominations for Max Richter, Hans Zimmer and Jonny Greenwood. She also meets the celebrated film composer Laura Karpman, Oscar shortlisted for her latest score, Marvel Studios' Captain America: Brave New World.

And with LA-resident critic and author Alex Ross, Georgia explores the music of emigre composers like Stravinsky and Korngold who made LA their home.

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Performer: Margaret Batjer. Orchestra: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Kahane.
    • J.S.Bach: Violin Concertos.
    • DG.

  • Margaret Bonds

    Troubled Water

    • Fantasie.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.

  • Max Steiner

    Gone with the Wind (main title)

    Orchestra: London Festival Orchestra. Choir: London Festival Chorus. Conductor: Stanley Black.
    • DECCA.

  • Franz Waxman

    Sunset Boulevard - Suite

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Gerhardt.
    • Classic Film Scores: Sunset Boulevard.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 4.

  • Charlie Chaplin

    Smile

    Performer: Nat King Cole.
    • Smile.
    • Capitol Records.
    • 1.

  • Piero Umiliani

    Mah Na Mah Na

    Ensemble: The Muppets.

  • Thomas Adès

    Inferno: Paolo and Francesca (Dante)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Thomas Adès: Dante.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 5.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Theseus Hymn

    Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Gerd Albrecht.

  • John Williams

    Raiders March (Raiders of the Lost Ark)

    Orchestra: Boston Pops Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
    • John Williams & Steven Spielberg: The Ultimate Collection.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Elmer Bernstein

    Suite from To Kill a Mockingbird

    Performer: Scott Dunn.

  • Leonard Rosenman

    Rebel Without A Cause: Main Title

    Music Arranger: Scott Dunn. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Scott Dunn.
    • PLATOON.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No 2 in C Minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Rachmaninoff: The Piano Concertos & Paganini Rhapsody.
    • DG.

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Murder on the Orient Express

    Performer: Scott Dunn.

  • Louis Vierne

    Naiades (Pièces de fantaisie, Op 55)

    Performer: Samuel Soria.
    • Organ Recital: Soria, Samuel - Wyton, A. / Vierne, L. / Reubke, J. / Bach, J.S..
    • Delos.
    • 201.

  • William Walton

    Spitfire Prelude and Fugue - concert version (Fugue)

    Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Walton: Battle of Britain Suite etc.: ASMF/Marriner.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • Claude Debussy

    Le vent dans la plaine (Preludes, Book 1)

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.
    • Debussy, Preludes etc.: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

  • Eric Coates

    March: The Dam Busters

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Eric Coates – Orchestral Works, Vol. 3.
    • Chandos.

  • Nico Muhly

    Bright Mass with Canons: Agnus Dei

    Performer: Kimo Smith. Choir: Los Angeles Master Chorale. Conductor: Grant Gershon.

  • John Adams

    The Gospel According to the Other Mary: Who rips his own flesh down the seams

    Choir: Los Angeles Master Chorale. Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Adams: The Gospel According To The Other Mary.
    • DG.
    • 21.

  • Bernard Herrmann

    Psycho: Prelude

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.

  • Ethel Leginska

    Nostalgic Waltz (Three Victorian Portraits)

    Performer: Asher Ian Armstrong.
    • Beginnings and Endings.
    • Blue Griffin Recording.
    • 6.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jascha Heifetz. Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Alfred Wallenstein.
    • RCA.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Piano Concerto, Op. 42: II. Molto allegro

    Conductor: Jonathan Nott. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
    • Schoenberg, Messiaen & Ravel: Orchestral Works.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 302.

  • Bernard Herrmann

    Vertigo Suite (Prelude)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • Herrmann - The Film Scores.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 16.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Suite in the Old Style for String Orchestra: Gigue

    Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Mario Venzago.
    • Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Kammersinfonie No. 2 & Suite im alten Stile.
    • ERATO.
    • 5.

  • Eric Whitacre

    The Pacific has no Memory

    Performer: Anne Akiko Meyers. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • AVIE.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Scherzo a la Russe

    Ensemble: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.

  • Henri Vieuxtemps

    Souvenirs d'Amerique (Variations on 'Yankee Doodle')

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Samuel Sanders.
    • Encores.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 17.

Broadcast

  • Mon 12 Jan 202609:30
    BBC Radio 3