Charles Hazlewood, conductor
Charlies Hazlewood, conductor and founder of the Paraorchestra, chooses the eight discs, book and luxury he would take with him if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne
Charles Hazlewood is a conductor and the founder of Paraorchestra, the world's first professional ensemble of disabled musicians.
Once described as the Heston Blumenthal of orchestral music, Charles has spent his career challenging Britain鈥檚 musical palate, exploding boundaries and expanding our ideas about what an orchestra can be - and do.
His repertoire encompasses Beethoven, Bruckner and Barry White, and his critically-acclaimed projects include more than 100 world premieres and the first orchestral headline performance at Glastonbury. Paraorchestra, the ensemble he established in 2011, reached a global audience at the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Paralympics. He also co-founded an opera company in South Africa, and its production of Carmen, with a mainly black cast, won international acclaim.
He studied music at Keble College, Oxford and was the Organ Scholar there. He won the EBU conductor's competition in 1995 and has had an international career as a conductor.
DISC ONE: Somebody鈥檚 Gonna Off The Man by Barry White & The Love Unlimited Orchestra
DISC TWO: A Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley
DISC THREE: Ach, ich f眉hls, composed by Mozart, conducted by Otto Klemperer and performed by Gundula Janowitz and Philharmonia Orchestra
DISC FOUR: R. Strauss: 4 Lieder, Op. 27 - 4. Morgen! by Richard Strauss, conducted by Kurt Masur, performed by Jessye Norman and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
DISC FIVE: Improvisation by Olivier Latry
DISC SIX: Kraftwerk-Rewerk, composed by Charlotte Harding and Lloyd Coleman, conducted by Charles Hazlewood
DISC SEVEN: Ndisakuthanda Mna, composed by Georges Bizet, performed by Pauline Malefane, Andile Tshoni and Dimpho Di Kopane, conducted by Charles Hazlewood
DISC EIGHT: The Last Time/Ultima Vez by Pauline Oliveros
BOOK CHOICE: A book of poetry by Ivor Cutler
LUXURY ITEM: An espresso machine
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Ach, ich f眉hls, composed by Mozart, conducted by Otto Klemperer and performed by Gundula Janowitz and Philharmonia Orchestra
Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Sarah Taylor
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Barry White & Love Unlimited Orchestra
Somebody's Gonna Off The Man
- Together Brothers (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
- Island Def Jam.
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Terry Riley
Rainbow in curved air
Performer: Terry Riley.- A Rainbow in Curved Air.
- ESOTERIC.
- 1.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ach, ich f眉hls
Conductor: Otto Klemperer. Singer: Gundula Janowitz. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.- Mozart: Die Zauberfl枚te.
- Great Recordings of the Century.
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Richard Strauss
R. Strauss: 4 Lieder, Op. 27 - 4. Morgen!
Conductor: Kurt Masur. Singer: Jessye Norman. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.- R Strauss: Four Last Songs.
- Philips.
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Olivier Latry
Improvisation
- Trois siecles d鈥檕rgue 脿 Notre Dame de Paris.
- na茂ve classique.
- 14.
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Paraorchestra
Kraftwerk-Rewerk
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Pauline Malefane, Andile Tshoni, Dimpho Di Kopane & Imbumba Symphony Orchestra
Ndisakuthanda Mna
- U-Carmen e Khayelitsha.
- CLASSICAL.
- 8.
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Pauline Oliveros
The Last Time/Ultima Vez
- Ghostdance.
- Deep Listening.
- 13.
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