Invention and exploration on Early Music Day with violinist Rachel Podger
Violinist Rachel Podger opens up a selection of music from her point of view as Ambassador for European Early Music Day.
Today many radio stations across Europe are celebrating a European Day of Early Music. So to mark that here on Radio 3, we鈥檝e asked the Ambassador for the day, Rachel Podger, to host Inside Music. Rachel will be spending a couple of hours getting inside a wide selection of pieces that make her life as a performer of (and listener to) early music so rewarding.
Rachel remembers the effect of singing the Sanctus from JS Bach鈥檚 Mass in B minor as a teenager and how it fostered a lifelong fascination for the composer. She also tries to work out why Handel鈥檚 tunes are so memorable, and finds a keyboard fantasy by Mozart that seems to break all the classical rules.
Plus a jazz pianist who brought a new slant to baroque-rooted music by Shostakovich and the thrill of improvising on a melody that鈥檚 nearly 500 years old.
A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.
A Tandem Production for 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 3
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Gigue from E minor Partita, BWV 1006
Performer: Susanne Heinrich.- DAGAMBA.
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Thomas Tallis
If ye love me
Choir: Tallis Scholars.- GIMELL.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Fantasy in C minor, K 475
Performer: Andreas Staier.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Trad.
Greensleeves to a Ground
Director: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI.- ALIA VOX.
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George Frideric Handel
'As steals the morn' from L'Allegro, il penseroso, ed il moderato
Performer: Katharina Spreckelsen. Singer: Lucy Crowe. Singer: Mark Padmore. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Andrew Manze.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata for violin & keyboard, BWV 1019a - 3rd mvt - Allegro
Performer: Trevor Pinnock.- CHANNEL CLASSICS.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Prelude and Fugue No. 8 in F sharp minor
Performer: Keith Jarrett.- ECM.
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John Taverner
Gloria from Western Wynde Mass
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Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully
Armide - Act 5 sc 1. Passacaille & 2. Les Plaisirs ont choisi pour asile
Ensemble: Les Talens Lyriques. Conductor: Christophe Rousset.- APARTE.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Era l'anima mia gia presso a l'ultim' hore
Choir: I Fagiolini.- CORO.
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Henry Purcell
Suite no.2 in G minor for harpsichord Z661
Performer: Richard Egarr.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Sinfonia from Partita in C minor BWV 826
Ensemble: The Swingle Singers.- UNIVERSAL.
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Anon.
Scotch Cap
Performer: Andrew Lawrence鈥怟ing. Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Harp Consort.- DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Sanctus from B minor mass
Ensemble: The Taverner Choir, Consort & Players. Conductor: Andrew Parrott.- ERATO.
Broadcast
- Sat 21 Mar 2020 13:00麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 3
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