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Jennifer Pike and Danielle de Niese

Petroc Trelawny welcomes violinist Jennifer Pike and soprano Danielle de Niese to the studio, as they both perform live in 80A.

Petroc Trelawny is joined by violinist Jennifer Pike, who performs live and discusses her upcoming performance of Bruch's Violin Concerto No.1 with the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra Ostrava at Cadogan Hall, London on 18/02. Also live in 80A, soprano Danielle de Niese talks about her Valentine's Day performance with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Brighton Dome on 14/02. She also chats to Petroc about singing the role of Jenny Smith in Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny with ENO from 16/02.

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Music Played

  • Charles Gounod

    Waltz (Faust, Act 2)

    Music Arranger: Leopold Weninger. Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra - Great Recordings.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 31.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Golderg Variations nos 7,9. 8

    Performer: Yunchan Lim.
    • J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations (Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, 2025).
    • Decca Music.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Jubilate Deo in C

    Performer: Peter Dyke. Choir: Hereford Cathedral Choir. Director: Geraint Bowen.
    • REGENT.
  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    Polish caprice

    Performer: Jennifer Pike.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major H.7e.1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.
    • Tine Thing Helseth.
    • SIMAX CLASSICS.
    • 3.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No 8 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Supraphon.
  • Samuel Barber

    The monk and his cat (Hermit Songs)

    Singer: Leontyne Price. Performer: Samuel Barber.
    • Barber: Knoxville, Summer of 1915: Various.
    • Masterworks Portrait.
    • 10.
  • Larry Adler

    Genevieve Waltz

    Performer: Larry Adler. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Douglas Gamley.
    • The Genius of Larry Adler.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Violin Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jennifer Pike. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The rain it raineth every day, Op 65 No 3

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Songs to Shakespeare.
    • Hyperion.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Folk songs from Somerset (March)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • Holst/Vaughan Williams: British Wind Band Classics: Timothy Reynish.
    • Chandos.
    • 16.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Bassoon Concerto in G minor, RV.495

    Performer: Peter Whelan. Ensemble: Jupiter. Director: Thomas Dunford.
    • Alpha.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Ma mere l'Oye; Tableux 4, 5 & Apotheosis

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Kurt Weill

    Alabama Song (The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny)

    Performer: Danielle de Niese. Performer: Murray Hipkin.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Pur ti miro (L'incoronazione di Poppea)

    Singer: Danielle de Niese. Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Harry Bicket.
    • Danielle de Niese: Beauty of the Baroque: The English Concert, Harry Bicket.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Georges Bizet

    Le bal - Galop (Jeux d'enfants)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Bizet: Symphony in C etc.: Concertgebouw Orchestra/Haitink.
    • Philips.
    • 9.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 1 (1917 Final Version):

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Rachmaninoff: The Piano Concertos & Paganini Rhapsody.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
  • Max Richter

    Mrs Dalloway: In The Garden

    Performer: Max Richter. Performer: Louisa Fuller. Performer: Natalia Bonner. Performer: John Metcalfe. Performer: Ian Burdge. Performer: Chris Worsey.
    • Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.
  • Cécile Chaminade

    Trio No.1 in G minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Neave Trio.
    • A Room Of Her Own.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.

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