0:00:02 > 0:00:05MUSIC: "Hora Staccato" by Grigoras Dinicu
0:02:04 > 0:02:07APPLAUSE
0:02:10 > 0:02:13That was the famous Hora Staccato by Dinicu,
0:02:13 > 0:02:15which is a violin player's test piece,
0:02:15 > 0:02:17and actually a flute player's nightmare.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19This evening we have a very mixed bag for you.
0:02:19 > 0:02:24Lots of international celebrities, and we're going all over the world to find our music as well.
0:02:24 > 0:02:28Before we start travelling, I'd like to go a little way back into my youth,
0:02:28 > 0:02:31to the day I won three competitions in Ireland.
0:02:31 > 0:02:36When I was a little boy I won the local flute band championship competition
0:02:36 > 0:02:40for the ages of ten to 13, 13 to 16, and the all-Ireland open.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43And the tune I had to play for the all-Ireland piece
0:02:43 > 0:02:47was the best of all three - the Melody in F by Anton Rubinstein -
0:02:47 > 0:02:52and I'd like to play it for you now, with Calvin Simmons and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40APPLAUSE
0:05:55 > 0:05:59My next group of guests are roughly the same age as the people
0:05:59 > 0:06:02with whom I was competing in two of the classes as a boy in Ireland,
0:06:02 > 0:06:06and now I'm going to play for you The Entertainer,
0:06:06 > 0:06:08arranged for recorder ensemble.
0:06:08 > 0:06:13If you think there's anything worse than one recorder, you're quite wrong. Just listen to this.
0:06:13 > 0:06:17And Mr Calvin Simmons is going to oblige us by accompanying us at the piano.
0:06:17 > 0:06:21APPLAUSE
0:06:21 > 0:06:25MUSIC: "The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin
0:08:57 > 0:09:01APPLAUSE
0:09:13 > 0:09:17Ladies and gentlemen, the man responsible for coaching these
0:09:17 > 0:09:21children is my one and only brother George who lives in Manchester.
0:09:21 > 0:09:25These children are all his pupils at various schools there.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27They form different ensembles
0:09:27 > 0:09:31and have all travelled down here especially for the programme.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33George, tell me how many students
0:09:33 > 0:09:35and pupils have you got in Manchester?
0:09:35 > 0:09:37Well, I don't really know exactly, Jim,
0:09:37 > 0:09:41but there's quite a few recorder players in Manchester.
0:09:41 > 0:09:47But they do have a very healthy music scene in town
0:09:47 > 0:09:52and we've brought along today a wind band from various schools
0:09:52 > 0:09:55to play Sousa March.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58Guess who we want to play the piccolo?
0:09:58 > 0:10:01- I don't know. Me?!- Yes!
0:10:01 > 0:10:04There's no audition for this, is there?
0:10:04 > 0:10:06APPLAUSE
0:10:08 > 0:10:12MUSIC: "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa
0:12:44 > 0:12:48APPLAUSE
0:13:05 > 0:13:08Well, I'm glad I didn't have to take an audition for that one
0:13:08 > 0:13:11because I think I may really not have made it.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14That was the Stars and Stripes by JP Sousa.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16He thought he was writing a symphony - he really did -
0:13:16 > 0:13:19he thought he was writing great master-works.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22In fact he did, but all he turned out were marches
0:13:22 > 0:13:24but he made a very, very good job of them.
0:13:24 > 0:13:29I'd like to go right now to one of the truly great musicians of the 20th century - Claude Debussy.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31I'd like to play with Calvin and the orchestra
0:13:31 > 0:13:36one of his most beautifully haunting melodies - La Plus Que Lente.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45MUSIC: "La Plus Que Lente" by Claude Debussy.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58APPLAUSE
0:19:13 > 0:19:15That was La Plus Que Lente.
0:19:15 > 0:19:19And now ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to introduce to you someone
0:19:19 > 0:19:22who is, in my opinion, one of the truly great living violin players -
0:19:22 > 0:19:25not only that, she's definitely one of the most beautiful!
0:19:25 > 0:19:28And here to play for you the last movement
0:19:28 > 0:19:33of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor is Miss Kyung-Wha Chung.
0:19:33 > 0:19:37APPLAUSE
0:19:50 > 0:19:53MUSIC: "Violin Concerto in E minor, op 64" by Felix Mendelssohn
0:26:31 > 0:26:33APPLAUSE
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Wasn't that terrific?
0:27:01 > 0:27:04I would like to ask Kyung-Wha and Calvin to join me over here.
0:27:04 > 0:27:08And, also, I'd like to welcome back my good old friend Moray Welsh.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10APPLAUSE
0:27:16 > 0:27:18Kyung-Wha, that was terrific.
0:27:18 > 0:27:20Tell me, when did you first play this piece?
0:27:20 > 0:27:24- This concerto?- The Mendelssohn. - When I was about that high.
0:27:24 > 0:27:29- Well, actually I was, er, in Korean age, nine years old.- Mm-hmm.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32- In British age, eight.- Ah-ha. OK.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35You haven't recorded it yet, have you?
0:27:35 > 0:27:40No, not yet. I actually just now recorded the Beethoven concerto,
0:27:40 > 0:27:42but Mendelssohn is to follow very soon.
0:27:42 > 0:27:46Well, the Beethoven's enough to keep anybody busy for a week or two.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48Er, we're going to play for you now,
0:27:48 > 0:27:51one of the pieces we had much success with when we were touring
0:27:51 > 0:27:53together with Kyung-Wha, myself and Moray.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55It's a jig by Bach.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57And for all the historians who are looking in,
0:27:57 > 0:28:01I'd like to tell you it's a piece he wrote when he was in Dublin
0:28:01 > 0:28:03when he was on tour visiting his pal Handel.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06We've asked Calvin to supply the keyboard part at the harpsichord.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15MUSIC: "Gigue From Trio Sonata in C Major" by Bach
0:31:16 > 0:31:19APPLAUSE
0:31:44 > 0:31:46Well, that was really most enjoyable.
0:31:46 > 0:31:49Thank you Kyung-Wha and Moray and Calvin.
0:31:49 > 0:31:53For my next guest, I'd like to introduce a very, very special lady
0:31:53 > 0:31:56who I first made music with at the Edinburgh Festival,
0:31:56 > 0:32:00but someone who is known to all classical audiences throughout the world
0:32:00 > 0:32:03and here she is to sing two negro spirituals.
0:32:03 > 0:32:06Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Jessye Norman.
0:32:06 > 0:32:09APPLAUSE
0:32:13 > 0:32:16MUSIC: "There's A Man" Performed by Jessye Norman
0:32:16 > 0:32:23# There's a man going round
0:32:23 > 0:32:28# Taking names
0:32:29 > 0:32:34# There's a man going round
0:32:34 > 0:32:40# Taking names
0:32:40 > 0:32:47# He has taken my mother's name
0:32:47 > 0:32:55# And he's left my heart in pain
0:32:55 > 0:33:01# There's a man going round
0:33:01 > 0:33:07# Taking names
0:33:07 > 0:33:14# There's a man going round
0:33:14 > 0:33:21# Taking names
0:33:21 > 0:33:26# There's a man going round
0:33:26 > 0:33:32# Taking names
0:33:32 > 0:33:39# He has taken my father's name
0:33:39 > 0:33:47# And he's left my heart in pain
0:33:48 > 0:33:54# There's a man going round
0:33:54 > 0:34:00# Taking names
0:34:00 > 0:34:07# Oh, death is that man
0:34:07 > 0:34:13# Taking names
0:34:13 > 0:34:19# Oh, death is that man
0:34:19 > 0:34:24# Taking names
0:34:24 > 0:34:32# He has taken my brother's name
0:34:32 > 0:34:39# And he's left my heart in pain
0:34:39 > 0:34:46# Oh, death is that man
0:34:46 > 0:34:56# Taking names
0:34:56 > 0:35:07# There's a man going round
0:35:07 > 0:35:16# Taking names. #
0:35:18 > 0:35:21APPLAUSE
0:35:42 > 0:35:45For the next spiritual, Great Day,
0:35:45 > 0:35:49I will be accompanied at the piano by Mr Calvin Simmons.
0:35:56 > 0:35:58# Great day
0:36:00 > 0:36:05# Great day the righteous marching Great day
0:36:05 > 0:36:07# God's going to build up Zion's walls
0:36:07 > 0:36:10# Great day
0:36:10 > 0:36:15# Great day the righteous marching Great day
0:36:15 > 0:36:17# God's going to build up Zion's walls
0:36:17 > 0:36:20# Chariot rode on the mountain top
0:36:20 > 0:36:22# God's going to build up Zion's walls
0:36:22 > 0:36:24# God has spoke and the chariot stopped
0:36:24 > 0:36:27# God's going to build up Zion's walls
0:36:27 > 0:36:30# Tis the day of juberlee
0:36:30 > 0:36:32# God's going to build up Zion's walls
0:36:32 > 0:36:36# God has set his people free God's going to build up Zion's walls
0:36:36 > 0:36:39# Great day
0:36:39 > 0:36:41# Great day the righteous marching
0:36:41 > 0:36:43# Great day
0:36:43 > 0:36:46# God's going to build up Zion's walls
0:36:46 > 0:36:51# Take my breastplate sword in hand
0:36:51 > 0:36:55# Put a bullet through the land
0:36:55 > 0:37:00# Want no cowards in our band
0:37:00 > 0:37:03# It must be a good brave man
0:37:05 > 0:37:08# Great day
0:37:08 > 0:37:10# Great day the righteous marching
0:37:10 > 0:37:13# Great day
0:37:13 > 0:37:15# God's going to build up Zion's walls
0:37:15 > 0:37:19# Great day
0:37:19 > 0:37:24# Great day the righteous marching
0:37:24 > 0:37:33# Great day-y-y-y-y
0:37:33 > 0:37:36# God's going to build up
0:37:36 > 0:37:43# Zion's
0:37:43 > 0:37:48# Walls. #
0:37:50 > 0:37:53APPLAUSE
0:38:12 > 0:38:16I'd like to invite Jessye Norman to join us over here with the orchestra.
0:38:16 > 0:38:20APPLAUSE
0:38:23 > 0:38:27- Jessye, that was fantastic. - Thank you.- Just great.
0:38:27 > 0:38:31I'd like to be the first guy on TV to tell you I love you.
0:38:32 > 0:38:34I love you too but we weren't going to talk of that.
0:38:34 > 0:38:39One of the greatest moments of my life was to appear
0:38:39 > 0:38:42on the stage of the Usher Hall with Jessye Norman when we did
0:38:42 > 0:38:47a piece together called La Flute Enchante from Sheherazade by Ravel.
0:38:48 > 0:38:50We'd like to relive this very special moment
0:38:50 > 0:38:54which we'll now perform with Calvin and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
0:39:01 > 0:39:04MUSIC: "La Flute Enchante" by Maurice Ravel
0:39:16 > 0:39:22# L'ombre est douce et mon maitre dort
0:39:22 > 0:39:26# Coiffe d'un bonnet conique de soie
0:39:26 > 0:39:33# Et son long nez jaune en sa barbe blanche
0:39:48 > 0:39:53# Mais moi, je suis eveillee encore
0:39:53 > 0:39:55# Et j'ecoute au dehors
0:39:55 > 0:39:58# Une chanson de flute ou s'epanche
0:39:58 > 0:40:05# Tour a tour la tristesse ou la joie
0:40:22 > 0:40:31# Un air tour a tour langoureux ou frivole
0:40:31 > 0:40:38# Que mon amoureux cheri joue
0:40:47 > 0:40:55# Et quand je m'approche de la croisee
0:40:55 > 0:41:03# Il me semble que chaque note s'envole
0:41:03 > 0:41:08# De la flute vers ma joue
0:41:08 > 0:41:15# Comme un mysterieux baiser. #
0:41:59 > 0:42:02APPLAUSE
0:42:13 > 0:42:17APPLAUSE DROWNS SPEECH
0:42:24 > 0:42:29Well, that was the magic flute sung by the magic Jessye Norman.
0:42:29 > 0:42:32And now we're going to play you one of the pieces composed by
0:42:32 > 0:42:34my father's favourite violin player.
0:42:34 > 0:42:37When I was a boy, we had an old wind-up gramophone
0:42:37 > 0:42:40with a number of Kreisler records, and one of the pieces
0:42:40 > 0:42:45we played very often was Liebesfreud played by Fritz Kreisler himself.
0:42:45 > 0:42:47I used to hear this very often as a child
0:42:47 > 0:42:50and we've arranged it for flute and orchestra.
0:42:50 > 0:42:51I'd like to play it for you now.
0:42:57 > 0:43:00MUSIC: "Liebesfreud" by Fritz Kreisler
0:46:16 > 0:46:20APPLAUSE
0:46:35 > 0:46:37That's was Kreisler's Liebesfreud.
0:46:37 > 0:46:42And to finish off I'd like to play you a few tunes from the fatherland.
0:46:42 > 0:46:44That's from Ireland, I mean.
0:46:45 > 0:46:48We've arranged a few reels which we hope you'll enjoy.
0:46:48 > 0:46:51Thank you for being with us, and to all my guests.
0:46:51 > 0:46:55Miss Kyung-Wha Chung, Jessye Norman, Moray Welsh,
0:46:55 > 0:46:57to all the young musicians from Manchester
0:46:57 > 0:47:00and my brother for coaching and bringing them all down.
0:47:00 > 0:47:03And very special thanks to Calvin Simmons who came
0:47:03 > 0:47:05all the way from San Francisco especially to keep us
0:47:05 > 0:47:09all in the right place and my good friends at the Royal Philharmonic.
0:47:09 > 0:47:11Here we go...
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