Storytelling, beauty and melancholy in music with composer Isobel Waller-Bridge
Isobel Waller-Bridge chooses a selection of classical music from her point of view as a composer - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light.
TV and film composer Isobel Waller-Bridge leads us through an intriguing selection of pieces that get her thinking about the power music has to create vivid images and to tell stories.
She finds herself dancing with her eyes closed to Erik Satie before realising how stringed instruments can in their own way mimic the emotional impact of voices. She also discovers how a Finnish landscape full of migrating swans can be captured perfectly in music, and plays a song from 1969 that breaks many of the rules of pop to deliver its beautiful, melancholy message.
A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.
A Tandem Production for 91热爆 Radio 3
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Erik Satie
Gnossiennes No. 3 - Lent
Performer: Alice Sara Ott.- DG.
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Sergey Prokofiev
'And now, this is how things stood' from Peter and the Wolf
Narrator: David Bowie. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.- SONY.
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Isobel Waller-Bridge
Arise
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Hildegard von Bingen
Antiphon, O quam mirabilis est
Ensemble: Anonymous 4.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Gy枚rgy Ligeti
Number 3 & Number 10 from 10 pieces for wind quintet
Performer: Philharmonisches Bl盲serquintett Berlin.- BIS.
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Luigi Cherubini
Symphony in D - 1st movement
Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- DECCA.
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Olivier Messiaen
Quartet for the End of Time - V - Louange a l'eternite de Jesus
Ensemble: Gould Piano Trio.- CHANDOS.
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Scott Walker
It's raining today
Performer: Scott Walker.- MERCURY.
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Claude Debussy
Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
Performer: Timothy Hutchins. Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montr茅al. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.- DECCA.
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Caroline Shaw
Plan and Elevation - The Orangery & The Beech Tree
Ensemble: Attacca Quartet.- NONESUCH.
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Kyrie from Missa Assumpta est Maria
Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.- CORO.
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John Tavener
The Lamb (arranged for strings)
Orchestra: Brno Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mikel Toms.- VARESE SARABANDE.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for flutes, strings and continuo in C major, RV533
Performer: Stephen Preston. Performer: Nicholas McGegan. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Christopher Hogwood.- DECCA.
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Leos Jan谩膷ek
In the Mists - 1st movement - Andante
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.- WARNER CLASSICS.
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Einojuhani Rautavaara
Cantus arcticus, Op. 61 - Concerto for Birds and Orchestra - III - Swans Migrating
Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leif Segerstam.- ONDINE.
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Houbava Milka (Beautiful Milk)
Choir: Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir. Choir: Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir.- GEGA NEW.
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George Crumb
Apparition 6 - The night in silence under many a star
Performer: Gilbert Kalish. Singer: Jan DeGaetani.- BRIDGE.
Broadcasts
- Sat 6 Jun 2020 13:0091热爆 Radio 3
- Sat 27 Mar 2021 13:0091热爆 Radio 3
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