RC 260830SAfm
Sunday, 30 August 2026
Dino Madramuthu curated a relaxed Sunday programme spanning classical favourites, film scores, Brazilian music and listener recommendations, with a notable reflection on Camille Saint-Saëns’s overlooked brilliance.
- 17:32
Dino revisited Camille Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 5, “The Egyptian”, admitting he had dismissed it until hearing it live and discovering it was among his favourite piano concertos.
- 17:44
Listener messages produced a varied shortlist of favourite violin concertos, including works by Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Beethoven, Lalo, Bruch and Alban Berg, which Dino said he planned to explore.
- 17:26
The programme connected well-known film music with its classical and standalone origins, featuring Nino Rota’s The Godfather waltz and Stanley Myers’s Cavatina from The Deer Hunter.
- 17:25
Brazilian music supplied the afternoon’s laid-back mood, including Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes’s “O Amor em Paz”, performed by Rosa Passos with Yo-Yo Ma and ensemble.
- 17:55
Dino recalled hearing Karl Jenkins’s The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace live at Johannesburg City Hall, where Jenkins conducted the work with choir and orchestra.