Voice & Music — Ant Chloe by Barbara Panetta

The Voices

Voice of Chloe’s Promise

Ben Shephard

Ben is passionate about people – their lives, their stories and their challenges. With a genuine warmth and ability to bring out the best in others, Ben is one of Britain’s most popular television presenters.

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Voice of the Gr-ant-father Clock

Sally Phillips

Award-winning actor, writer, and comedian-presenter Sally Phillips is known for her roles in ‘I’m Alan Partridge’, ‘Smack the Pony’, ‘Green Wing’, and ‘Miranda’. She is also Clare, in Radio 4’s Sony Award-winning ‘Clare in the Community’, and Shazzer in the Bridget Jones trilogy.

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The Music

Composer & pianist

Alessandro Viale

Alessandro Viale is a prize winning Italian musician, conductor and composer (including film scores), who played extensively in many important venues in the UK, Norway, Germany, India, Malta, Spain, and Italy.

His new compositions include the lullaby Berceuse of the Moon, alongside arrangements of Chopin and Tchaikovsky, most of it performed on an 1815 Broadwood piano.

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Lead violinist · Teatro alla Scala

Laura Marzadori

Laura Marzadori joined the Scala Theatre Orchestra as leader violin in 2014, at just 25 years. Before taking up this position she played only as a soloist and as a chamber music violinist, never in an orchestra. However, the commission members with Daniel Barenboim as its president, unanimously elected her as the Concertmaster. In this role she has already worked with some of the greatest conductors in the world: Barenboim, Chailly, Gatti, Harding and Pappano.

Laura performed the violin on Chloe and the Gr-ant-father Clock.

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The story behind the music

The music has been written, selected and recorded at home, during the lockdown, by the Italian composer and pianist Alessandro Viale. The little ant pianist, Chloe thinks musically: every thought, every feeling, is reflected in the different tunes. Some of these are completely new, like the dreamy lullaby “Berceuse of the Moon”, and some are elaborations of pieces by Tchaikovsky and Chopin.

Alessandro Viale identified himself with the little Chloe, playing most of the music on his ancient 1815 Broadwood piano. The violin parts for Chloe’s Promise were performed by violinist Rebecca Raimondi. For the new Ant Chloe soundtrack the violin was performed by Milan Scala lead violinist, Laura Marzadori.