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ON NOW : Afternoon on 3
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Episode 1

Afternoon on 3 With Louise Fryer. BBC SSO under Donald Runnicles in Golijov, Mozart, Bruckner, Debussy.

ON NEXT : 16:30 In Tune

Tamara Rojo

Episode image for Tamara Rojo

Duration: 1 hour

Michael Berkeley's guest this week is the Spanish-born dancer Tamara Rojo, who since 2000 has been principal ballerina with the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden. Internationally acclaimed for her outstanding technique, brilliant artistry and acting skills, she has danced a wide range of principal roles with leading ballet companies all over the world, and won the 2010 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production, for her collaboration with choreographer Kim Brandstrup in 'Goldberg:The Brandstrup-Rojo Project'. Other awards include Spain's two highest artistic honours and the Paris International Dance Competition's Gold Medal.

The roles for which Tamara is best known include Coppelia, Odette/Odile (Swan Lake), Clara (Nutcracker), Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), Giselle, Manon, Cinderella, Mary (Mayerling), and especially Juliet in Kenneth MacMillan's 'Romeo and Juliet' which she danced with Carlos Acosta in London's vast O2 arena last June, and which she is currently dancing at Covent Garden.

Articulate and passionate in her advocacy of music, Tamara has chosen pieces by a wide variety of composers for her 'Private Passions', many of which relate to her dancing. She starts with the prologue to Tchaikovsky's 'Swan Lake', followed by the poignant closing section of Mahler's 'Song of the Earth', sung by Janet Baker. Her choices continue with a Russian version of 'Carmen', a section of Arvo Part's contemplative 'Spiegel im Spiegel', and one of Bach's Goldberg Variations, played by Murray Perahia. The first movement of Elgar's Cello Concerto, played by Jacqueline du Pre, is followed by traditional Spanish flamenco, reflecting Tamara Rojo's own roots.

Music played

7 items
Timings are shown from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
  • Artist Image for Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Swan Lake (Prologue to Act I)

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra/André Previn

    EMI CDS 749531-2

  • Artist Image for Gustav Mahler

    Gustav Mahler The Song of the Earth [Das Lied von der Erde] (end of last song, Der Abschied)

    Performers: Janet Baker (mezzo soprano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Bernard Haitink

    PHILIPS 432 279-2

  • Artist Image

    Rodion Shchedrin Torero and Carmen (from Carmen Suite)

    Performers: Russian National Orchestra/Mikhael Pletnev

    DG 471 136-2

  • Artist Image for Arvo Pärt

    Arvo Pärt Spiegel im Spiegel

    Performers: Tasmin Little (violin), Martin Roscoe (piano)

    VIRGIN VTDCD408

  • Artist Image for Johann Sebastian Bach

    Johann Sebastian Bach Variation 25 (from the Goldberg Variations)

    Performers: Murray Perahia (piano)

    SONY SK 89243

  • Artist Image for Sir Edward Elgar

    Sir Edward Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor (first movement)

    Performers: Jacqueline Du Pré (cello), LSO/John Barbirolli

    EMI 567341-2

  • Artist Image for [traditional]

    [traditional] Granada

    Performers: Paco de Lucia, Andres Battista and Maolo San Lucar (guitars)

    DIVUCSA MUSIC 2197

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