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Motion and suspension

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Exploring strong voices in string playing across a range of time periods and genres. This week Liam focuses on pieces that dance, pieces that float and some that do both.

A three-part series exploring strong voices in string playing across a range of time periods and genres, hosted by viola da gamba player Liam Byrne.

The viola da gamba became virtually extinct at the end of the 18th century and as such the aural lineage of performers has been severed. Part of Liam鈥檚 practice is to listen to a wide variety of string voices that do have that historical continuity, from Appalachian folk to Indian classical music.

Across this series, Liam shares his favourite discoveries with each episode focusing on a common energy, vibe or mood. In this opening episode it鈥檚 the feeling of motion and suspension, featuring a 17th-century Italian dance played on period instruments; a traditional Irish sean-n贸s song rearranged for cello with haunting concertina-like harmonics; and the fiddle player Martin Hayes playing a fast jig with exquisite and effortless sweetness.

Produced by Rebecca Gaskell
A Reduced Listening production for 大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Jorge S谩nchez-Chiong

    Overclockers 5 (2013) For Violin, Electronics And Turntables

    Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Performer: Jorge S谩nchez-Chiong.
    • Take Two.
    • Alpha Classics.

  • Giovanni Felice Sances

    Lagrimosa Belt脿

    Performer: The King鈥檚 Noyse.
    • Pavaniglia: Dances & Madrigals From 17th-Century Italy.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Okkyung Lee

    Hollow Water

    • Ghil.
    • Ideologic Organ.

  • Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill

    Martin Rochford's / Green Gowned Lass

    • Live In Seattle.
    • Green Linnet.

  • Marin Marais

    Sarabande, IV.57

    Performer: Christophe Coin. Performer: Christophe Rousset.
    • Suitte D'Un Go没t 脡tranger.
    • Decca.

  • Eug猫ne Ysa每e

    Sonate N掳 4 (脌 Fritz Kreisler): II. Sarabande

    Performer: Tai Murray.
    • Six Sonatas For Solo Violin Op.27.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Daniel Pioro

    Dust I. Cosmos

    • Dust.
    • Bedroom Community.

  • Kevin Volans

    White Man Sleeps, Quartet No. 1: First Dance

    Performer: Kronos Quartet.
    • 25 Years.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Trad.

    Aisling Gheal

    Performer: Kate Ellis. Music Arranger: Donnacha Dennehy.
    • Jump.
    • Diatribe Recordings.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet Opus 33 No. 2, Hob.III. 38 In E Flat Major Major: Largo Sostenuto

    Performer: Quatuor Mosa茂ques.
    • String Quartets Opus 33.
    • 础蝉迟谤茅别.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Suite No. 1 for cello solo, Op. 72: Canto primo: Sostenuto e largamente

    Performer: Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir.
    • Britten: Suites for cello solo, Nos. 1-3.
    • Centaur.

  • William Byrd

    Mass a 4: Agnus dei

    Performer: Phantasm.
    • Phantasm: Four Temperaments.
    • Linn.

  • Arthur Russell

    This Is How We Walk On The Moon

    • Another Thought.
    • Point Music.

Broadcast

  • Sun 12 Apr 2020 13:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3