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Violinist Tai Murray invites you to dance, celebrate and eat cheese

Violinist Tai Murray opens up a colourful selection of music from the inside - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light.

Violinist Tai Murray assembles a kaleidoscopic playlist encompassing a riotous celebration by Adolphus Hailstork, some diabolical music by Prokofiev and glacial saxophone sounds from Roger Zare.

Tai also ponders why the final movement of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony always appeals to her whatever her mood, and marvels at how Dietrich Buxtehude can create so much musical contrast in a choral piece that sets just one word: Alleluia.

A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.

A Tandem Production for 91Èȱ¬ Radio 3

1 hour, 56 minutes

Music Played

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu No.2 Op.90

    Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • DECCA.
  • George Enescu

    Octet - IV. Mouvt de Valse

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Performer: Erik Schumann. Performer: Gabriel Le Magadure. Performer: Rosanne Philippens. Performer: Lawrence Power. Performer: Lily Francis. Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Performer: Jan-Erik Gustafsson.
    • WARNER.
  • Valerie Coleman

    Portraits of Langston - I. Prelude. Hellen Keller; III. Le grand duc Mambo

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Performer: Demarre McGill.
    • CEDILLE RECORDS.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Nightride and Sunrise

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • RCA.
  • Roger Zare

    Continuum I

    Ensemble: Donald Sinta Quartet.
    • CAG RECORDS.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Alleluia

    Ensemble: Concerto Köln. Choir: Accentus Chamber Choir. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • NAIVE.
  • Adolphus Hailstork

    Celebration

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • SONY.
  • Henry Purcell

    Dido and Aeneas - With drooping wings ye cupids come

    Performer: Steven Devine. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Suggestion diabolique (4 Pieces Op.4)

    Performer: Andrei Gavrilov.
    • WARNER.
  • Zoltán Kodály

    See the Gypsies eating cheese

    Choir: Magnificat. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No.4 in E minor Op.98 - Allegro energico e passionata

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Bohuslav Martinů

    La Revue de Cuisine - Tango

    Orchestra: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • DECCA.
  • Air

    Alpha Beta Gaga

    • VIRGIN.
  • Alfred Schnittke

    Congratulatory Rondo

    Performer: Ulf Wallin. Performer: Roland Pöntinen.
    • BIS.
  • Steve Reich

    Drumming - Part IV

    Ensemble: Colin Currie Group.
    • COLIN CURRIE RECORDS.
  • Bear McCreary

    Battlestar Galactica - Prologue and Main Title

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • La-La Land Records.

Broadcast

  • Sat 12 Sep 2020 13:00

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