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Clarinettist Berginald Rash with cadenzas, constellations and a cradle song

Berginald Rash opens up a selection of classical music from a clarinettist鈥檚 point of view - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light.

Clarinettist Berginald Rash shares music which, for him, conjures up vivid images including the red clay of the Mississippi Delta and the constellations of the night sky.

He showcases several vocalists whose expertise surprises him, including Natalie Dessay鈥檚 sky-high singing, the burnished quality of Renee Fleming鈥檚 voice, and Daryl Coley鈥檚 ability to sing an immensely long phrase without taking a breath. And Berginald admires fellow clarinettist Mariam Adam鈥檚 skill at tackling virtuosic extended techniques and cadenzas.

Plus, the magical blend which Berginald finds is a characteristic of the American school of wind playing.

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

Photo credit: Ishmael Claxton

1 hour, 56 minutes

Music Played

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Flute Concerto in D major, RV 428, 'Il Gardellino' (I. Allegro)

    Performer: Jean鈥怭ierre Rampal. Orchestra: I Solisti Veneti. Conductor: Claudio Scimone.
    • SONY.
  • Pietro Mascagni

    Ave Maria (Cavalleria Rusticana)

    Performer: Krista Bennion Feeney. Performer: Anthony Newman. Performer: Nancy Allen. Music Arranger: Robert Sadin. Singer: Kathleen Battle. Conductor: Robert Sadin.
    • SONY.
  • Jeff Scott

    Toccata for clarinet and piano

    Performer: Mariam Adam. Performer: Evelyn Ulex.
    • TANGO MALAMBO MUSIC.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Voglio Tempo per Risolvere (Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno)

    Singer: Ann Hallenberg. Singer: Natalie Dessay. Singer: Sonia Prina. Singer: Pavol Breslik. Ensemble: Le Concert d鈥橝str茅e. Director: Emmanuelle Ha茂m.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor (III. Andante moderato)

    Performer: Pascal Rog茅. Ensemble: Quatuor Ysa每e.
    • DECCA.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Quietly, night...I go, I go to him (The Rake's Progress, Act 1, Sc 3)

    Singer: Dawn Upshaw. Orchestra: Orchestre de l鈥橭p茅ra de Lyon. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    My father! Can I desert him (The Rake's Progress, Act 1, Sc 3)

    Singer: Dawn Upshaw. Orchestra: Orchestre de l鈥橭p茅ra de Lyon. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    I go, I go to him (The Rake's Progress, Act 1, Sc 3)

    Singer: Dawn Upshaw. Orchestra: Orchestre de l鈥橭p茅ra de Lyon. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade No. 10 in B flat major, K. 361, 'Gran Partita' (III. Adagio)

    Ensemble: Marlboro Alumni Ensemble. Conductor: Marcel Moyse.
    • SOUNDSET.
  • Johann Joachim Quantz

    Flute Concerto No. 109 in E flat, QV 5:89

    Performer: Eric Lamb. Orchestra: Die K枚lner Akademie. Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens.
    • PROFIL MEDIEN.
  • Richard Smallwood

    Total Praise

    Choir: Vision. Director: Richard Smallwood.
    • VERITY.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No. 5 in B flat, Op. 100 (IV. Allegro giocoso)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • DG.
  • Franz Schubert

    Nacht und Tr盲ume, D827

    Performer: Christoph Eschenbach. Singer: Ren茅e Fleming.
    • DECCA.
  • Valerie Coleman

    Red Clay & Mississippi Delta

    Ensemble: Imani Winds.
    • ENTERTAINMENT ONE MUSIC.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Comfort Ye (Messiah)

    Performer: Daryl Coley. Performer: Vanessa Bell Armstrong. Music Arranger: Mervyn Warren. Music Arranger: Michael O Jackson.
    • REPRISE RECORDS.
  • Aaron Copland

    Symphony No. 3 (II. Allegro molto)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • DG.

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  • Sat 9 Apr 2022 13:00
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