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What's the point of cadenzas?

Tom Service is joined at the 2022 Hay Festival by the American pianist, writer and self confessed 'classical music nerd of the highest order' Jeremy Denk, to explore cadenzas - virtuosic solo improvisations - with help from Freddie Mercury, John Coltrane and J.S Bach.

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29 minutes

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Fri 17 Jun 2022 16:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto no. 3 in G major K.216 for violin and orchestra

    Performer: Arabella Steinbacher. Performer: Lucerne Festival Strings.
    • PENTATONE.
    • PTC 5186979.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto no. 3 in G major K.216 for violin and orchestra

    Performer: Gilles Apap. Performer: Sinfonia Varsovia.
    • Apapaziz Productions.
    • GKJ00103.

  • Freddie Mercury

    Freddie Mercury's improvised vocal cadenza at Wembley for Live Aid (1985) with audience participation

    Performer: Freddie Mercury.

  • Billy Eckstine

    Billy Eckstine: I Want To Talk About You

    Performer: John Coltrane.
    • Verve Reissues.
    • 00602577174711.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg concerto no. 5 in D major BWV.1050

    Performer: Musica Antiqua Köln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 471 6562.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto no. 25 in C major K.503 for piano and orchestra

    Performer: Jeremy Denk. Performer: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
    • NONESUCH RECORDS.
    • 7559 791687.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto no. 25 in C major K.503 for piano and orchestra

    Performer: Jeremy Denk. Performer: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
    • NONESUCH RECORDS.
    • 7559 791687.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto no. 25 in C major K.503 for piano and orchestra

    Performer: Jeremy Denk. Performer: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
    • NONESUCH RECORDS.
    • 7559 791687.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto no. 25 in C major K.503 for piano and orchestra

    Performer: Jeremy Denk.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto no. 25 in C major K.503 for piano and orchestra

    Performer: Jeremy Denk. Performer: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
    • NONESUCH RECORDS.
    • 7559 791687.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Concerto in D major Op.61 for violin and orchestra

    Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja.
    • NAIVE.
    • V5174.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Concerto in E flat major H.7e.1 for trumpet and orchestra

    Performer: Markus Stockhausen.
    • ACANTA.
    • 233595.

  • Franz Liszt

    19 Hungarian rhapsodies S.244 for piano

    Performer: Sergey Rachmaninov.
    • RUSSIAN COMPACT DISC.
    • RCD 13001.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 12 Jun 2022 17:00
    BBC Radio 3
  • Fri 17 Jun 2022 16:30
    BBC Radio 3

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