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Conductor Suzi Digby with a fanfare, a fortepiano and boogie-woogie

Conductor Suzi Digby reveals familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light, from a cello duet by Jean Barri猫re to Haydn鈥檚 Creation.

Conductor Suzi Digby is Founder and Artistic Director of ORA Singers and Visiting Professor of Choral Studies at the University of Southern California. There鈥檚 plenty of choral music in her programme today, including a recently commissioned Magnificat by Julian Anderson, a piece by Caroline Shaw that uses the voice in unexpected ways, and a 40-part motet by James MacMillan designed to be a companion to Tallis鈥檚 Spem in Alium.

Away from multiple voices, Suzi highlights Mozart and Beethoven鈥檚 final piano sonatas, Ella Fitzgerald鈥檚 technically brilliant scatting, and a glittering fanfare by Peter Boyer. She also enjoys some of John Cage鈥檚 music for prepared piano and the energy of Mendelssohn鈥檚 Octet for strings.

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

1 hour, 56 minutes

Last on

Sat 28 Oct 2023 13:00
91热爆 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Peter Boyer

    Silver Fanfare

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Boyer.
    • NAXOS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111 (II. Arietta)

    Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Erbarme dich (St Matthew Passion, BWV 244)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Collegium Vocale Orchestra. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington

    Cottontail

    • VERVE.

  • James McMillan

    Vidi Aquam

    Choir: ORA Singers. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Jean-Baptiste Barri猫re

    Sonata No. 4 for two cellos in G major (I. Andante)

    Performer: Guy Johnston. Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • KINGS COLLEGE.

  • Trad.

    Nkosi Sikelel'Afrika

    Choir: Soweto Gospel Choir.
    • UNIVERSAL.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia, Op. 26

    Choir: Brighton Festival Chorus. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • CARL DAVIS COLLECTION.

  • Julian Anderson

    Magnificat

    Choir: ORA Singers. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Prelude, 'The Representation of Chaos' (The Creation)

    Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • DG ARCHIV.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    (Quartet for the End of Time (VI. Dance of fury, for the seven trumpets)

    Performer: Christoph Poppen. Performer: Manuel Fischer-Dieskau. Performer: Wolfgang Meyer. Performer: Yvonne Loriod.
    • WARNER.

  • Miles Davis

    Will O' the Wisp

    • COLUMBIA.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet in E flat, Op. 20 (I. Allegro moderato ma con fuoco)

    Performer: Jaime Laredo. Performer: John Dalley. Performer: Arnold Steinhardt. Performer: Alexander Schneider. Performer: Michael Tree. Performer: Samuel Rhodes. Performer: Leslie Parnas. Performer: David Soyer.
    • SONY.

  • John Cage

    Sonata V (Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano)

    Performer: Steffen Schleiermacher.
    • MDG.

  • Caroline Shaw

    Partita for 8 singers (III. Courante)

    Ensemble: Roomful of Teeth. Conductor: Brad Wells.
    • NEW AMSTERDAM.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No. 18 in D, K. 576 (III. Allegretto)

    Performer: Melvyn Tan.
    • EMI.

Broadcast

  • Sat 28 Oct 2023 13:00
    91热爆 Radio 3

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