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Live from BBC Radio Merseyside in Liverpool

Mezzo soprano Jennifer Johnston. Ian Tracey, organist at Liverpool Cathedral.

In Tune comes live from BBC Radio Merseyside in Liverpool. Petroc is joined by Liverpool-born mezzo soprano Jennifer Johnston, who talks about growing up in a city with such a vibrant musical heritage. He takes a walk along Hope Street, from the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, past the Philharmonic Hall, to Liverpool Cathedral, where he meets Ian Tracey, organist there since 1980, who is retiring in October. Specially for In Tune, Ian performs on the Cathedral's magnificent Father Willis Organ – celebrating the centenary of the largest pipe organ in the UK.

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Music Played

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no. 5 in E minor Op.64: 3rd mvt Valse (Allegro moderato)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
    • ONYX.
    • 003.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for 2 flutes in C, RV 533

    Performer: Katy Bircher. Performer: Flavia Hirte. Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • Vivaldi x22.
    • Signum.
    • 7-9.

  • Traditional English

    The Oak and the Ash

    Music Arranger: Gordon Langford. Ensemble: Gesualdo Six. Director: Owain Park.
    • The Wishing Tree.
    • HYPERION.
    • 6.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Tritsch-Tratsch Polka

    Music Arranger: Georges Cziffra. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Yuja Wang - Fantasia.
    • DG.
    • 10.

  • Frederick Loewe

    My Fair Lady: The Rain in Spain

    Singer: Rex Harrison. Singer: Julie Andrews.
    • Masterworks Broadway.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade K. 361 "Gran partita" (5th mvt)

    Performer: Mark Simpson. Performer: Fraser Langton. Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Emma Feilding. Performer: Amy Harman. Performer: Dom Tyler. Performer: Ben Goldscheider. Performer: Angela Barnes. Performer: David Stark. Performer: James Pillai. Performer: Fabian van de Geest.
    • Mark Simpson: Geysir - Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major, K. 361 "Gran par.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 205.

  • Anon.

    Amazing Grace

    Music Arranger: Armand Rabot. Singer: Jennifer Johnston. Choir: Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choir.
    • A Love Letter to Liverpool.
    • Rubicon.
    • 102.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

    Singer: Renée Fleming. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • DECCA.

  • Trad.

    The Leaving of Liverpool

    Performer: Alisdair Hogarth. Music Arranger: Richard Miller. Singer: Jennifer Johnston.
    • A Love Letter to Liverpool.
    • Rubicon.
    • 119.

  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Disappearance of Snow from White Landscapes, Op 47a

    Performer: John Barrow. Performer: Kate Wilson. Performer: Jonathan Price. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Sachio Fujioka.
    • Yoshimatsu: Piano Concerto "Memo Flora".
    • Chandos.
    • 109.

  • Percy Grainger

    Molly on the Shore

    Music Arranger: Leopold Stokowski. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • William Rimmer

    Punchinello

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Michael Antrobus.
    • World Famous Marches.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz, Op 64 No 1, 'Minute'

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Chopin: Waltzes: Tharaud.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 12.

  • William Walton

    Henry V - Scenes from the film: Burgundy [Act 5 scene 2]

    Performer: Laurence Olivier. Librettist: William Shakespeare. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: William Walton.

  • Colin Mawby

    Cantate

    Performer: Richard Lea. Choir: Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Christopher McElroy.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance no 3 in F

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.

  • Franz Liszt

    Piano Concerto No. 2 (finale)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.

  • Siegfried Karg-Elert

    Nun danket, alle Gott

    Performer: Ian Tracey.

  • George Thalben Ball

    Elegy

    Performer: Ian Tracey.

  • Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Johan Dalene. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gemma New.
    • Johan Dalene plays Mendelssohn, Bruch and Vaughan Williams.
    • BIS.
    • 106.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in D Major Op. 23 No. 4

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Rachmaninoff: Preludes, Op. 23 & 32.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.

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    BBC Radio 3

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