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Inside Music with Colin Currie

Percussionist Colin Currie opens up a colourful selection of classical music from the inside - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light.

Each week a musician reveals a selection of music - from the inside. Today world-renowned percussionist Colin Currie talks about his admiration for horn players, what it's like being caught up in a performance of a piece for two marimbas, and how Jean Sibelius can make a waltz sound bittersweet. Colin's choice of music includes variations on an ancient tune played with improvisatory panache by Jordi Savall, Mozart's powerful Requiem, a dramatic work for four hands at one piano by Schubert, and Steve Martland's outrageous 'Horses of Instruction'.

At 2 o'clock Colin reveals his Must Listen piece. It's music he describes as 'thrilling, engaging and strange' - and he wants everyone to hear it at least once in their life.

A Tandem Production for 大象传媒 Radio 3

1 hour, 56 minutes

Last on

Sat 15 Sep 2018 13:00
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Music Played

  • H. K. Gruber

    3 MOB Pieces Op.20 - No.1 Patrol

    Performer: H氓kan Hardenberger. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchesra. Conductor: H. K. Gruber.
    • BIS.

  • Robert Schumann

    Konzertstuck Op.86 for four horns and orchestra - Lebhaft

    Performer: Nigel Black. Performer: Laurence Davies. Performer: Laurence Rogers. Performer: Peter Blake. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.
    • DG.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata No.40 in G major Hob XVI: 40

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Petrushka - Russian Dance

    Performer: Paul Jacobs. Conductor: Pierre Boulez. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic.
    • SONY.

  • Steve Reich

    Nagoya Marimbas

    Performer: Colin Currie. Performer: Sam Walton.
    • VIRGIN.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Requiem K.626 - Sanctus and Benedictus

    Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe. Singer: Sibylla Rubens. Singer: Annette Markert. Singer: Ian Bostridge. Singer: Hanno M眉ller鈥怋rachmann. Choir: Chapelle Royale. Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Orchestra: Champs-Elysees Orchestra.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Claude Debussy

    La Mer - From Dawn till Noon on the Sea

    Conductor: Pierre Boulez. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra.
    • DG.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in B flat Op.130 - Alla danza tedesca

    Ensemble: Quartetto Italiano.
    • Philips.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Piano Concero No.2 - 2nd Movement

    Performer: Zolt谩n Kocsis. Conductor: Gy枚rgy Lehel. Orchestra: Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Capriccio.

  • Anonymous

    Folia: Rodrigo Martinez

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Performer: Rolf Lislevand. Performer: Michael Behringer. Performer: Arianna Savall. Performer: Pedro Estevan. Performer: Adela Gonz谩lez-Campa.
    • Alia Vox.

  • Bill Evans

    B Minor Waltz (For Ellaine)

    Ensemble: Bill Evans Trio.
    • Warner.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No.3 in C Op.52 - 2nd Movement

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Okko Kamu.
    • BIS.

  • Franz Schubert

    Allegro in A minor for piano four hands D.947 - Lebenssturme

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires. Performer: Ricardo Castro.
    • DG.

  • Netherlands Wind Ensemble

    Horses of Instruction

    • NBE.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Ballet Suite No.3 - The Limpid Stream (Dance)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • CHANDOS.

Broadcasts

  • Sat 7 Apr 2018 13:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3
  • Sat 15 Sep 2018 13:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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