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Jules Buckley on redefining the orchestral sound

Tom Service plays the best classical music alongside the latest stories in the arts world, and meets the versatile conductor, arranger and composer Jules Buckley.

Tom Service provides the ideal soundtrack for Saturday morning, with the best classical music in new and landmark recordings and one or two surprise guests introducing their own releases.

This week, the conductor, arranger and composer Jules Buckley joins Tom ahead of his appearance with Weyes Blood at the BBC Proms. Jules gives Tom an insight into realising the live orchestral ambitions of some of the biggest names in the music industry and redefining the role of the orchestra for the 21st century.

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Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in G major H.16.39 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.

  • Édouard Lalo

    Symphonie espagnole Op.21 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • Lalo, Saint-Saens & Sarasate: Violin Concertos.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 2.

  • Alessandro Striggio

    Mass 'Ecco si beato giorno' (Benedictus & Agnes Dei)

    Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.
    • CORO.

  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Flowing River (Part 1)

    Ensemble: Aurora Duo.
    • Signum Classic.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Bacchanale (Samson et Dalila)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Saint-Saens: Orchestral Works: Neeme Jarvi.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 1.

  • Antonio Lauro

    El Marabino

    Music Arranger: Alirio Díaz. Performer: John Williams.
    • El Diablo Suelto - Guitar Music of Venezuela.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 25.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (Cantata no.1)

    Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Choir: Amsterdam Baroque Choir. Director: Ton Koopman.
    • Bach - Complete Cantatas 13.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Cello Sonata in F major Op.5 no.1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Inon Barnatan.
    • Beethoven: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1-5.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 102.

  • Floating Points

    Mere Mortals (Her Gift)

    • Movement 10 - Her Gift.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Ignazio Sieber

    Recorder sonata no.8 (Allemande)

    Performer: Tabea Debus. Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.

  • Franz Liszt

    Mephisto Waltz no.1 (2 Episodes from Lenau's Faust S.110)

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • Hyperion.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor Op.66

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Chopin: Impromptus, Waltzes & Mazurkas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 001.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Sinfonia in G major RV.149

    Orchestra: L’Archicembalo.
    • TACTUS.

  • Jennifer Higdon

    All Things Majestic (String Lake)

    Orchestra: Nashville Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero.
    • Higdon: All Things Majestic, Viola Concerto & Oboe Concerto (Live).
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Giunse alfin il momento (Le Nozze di Figaro K.492)

    Singer: Danielle de Niese. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • The Mozart Album: Danielle de Niese.
    • Decca.
    • 5.

  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Correa nel seno amato (Sinfonia and Balletto)

    Ensemble: The Purcell Quartet.
    • Alessandro Scarlatti: La Folia & Other Works.
    • Hyperion.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Sextet (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Poulenc: The Complete Chamber Music: The Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony no.2 in D major Op.73 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Brahms: Symphonies.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Aileen Sweeney

    Glisk

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • CBSO Sounds New.
    • NMC Recordings.
    • 3.

  • Jacques Duphly

    La De Casaubon (Pièces de clavecin)

    Ensemble: Charivari Agréable.
    • The Sultan and the Phoenix: Charivari Agreable.
    • Signum.

  • Claude Debussy

    Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Picasso and Music.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 12.

  • Robert Schumann

    Grillen (Fantasiestücke Op.12)

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Sony.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Violin concerto in D major Op.8 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Pekka Kuusisto.
    • A Journey with Vilde.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 49.

Broadcast

  • Saturday09:00
    BBC Radio 3