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Choral conductor Greg Beardsell with the many voices of the voice

Choral conductor Greg Beardsell opens up a selection of classical music from a musician鈥檚 point of view - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light.

Greg Beardsell is a choral conductor and educator who loves the human voice and everything it can do. Greg has chosen a rousing coronation anthem by Handel, a piece recorded under lockdown by his colleagues in the London Youth Chamber Choir and a vocal ensemble incorporating beatboxing into their performance of of a new work by Anna Meredith.

Greg also explains why the music of Riverdance is a real conducting challenge; chooses Joseph Horovitz's Euphonium Concerto as an example of impressive breath control and picks music by Charles Ives which poses an existential question...

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

A Tandem Production for 大象传媒 Radio 3

1 hour, 56 minutes

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Sat 9 Jan 2021 13:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Anders Edenroth

    Words

    Choir: London Youth Choir.

  • George Frideric Handel

    My heart is inditing (Coronation Anthem No. 4, HWV 261)

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music.
    • WARNER.

  • Joseph Horovitz

    Euphonium Concerto - 2nd movement

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Bramwell Tovey.
    • CHANDOS.

  • John Sheppard

    Regis Tharsis Et Insule

    Orchestra: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.

  • Bill Whelan

    Riverdance (music from the show)

    • DECCA.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mass in C minor, K. 427 (Great) - Et incarnatus est

    Singer: Sylvia McNair. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Jerome Kern

    All the things you are

    Composer: Oscar Hammerstein. Performer: Andr茅 Previn. Singer: Sylvia McNair. Singer: David Finck.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Anna Meredith

    Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra

    Performer: MaJiKer. Performer: Alyusha. Performer: Grace Savage. Performer: Hobbit. Performer: MC Zani. Performer: Matthew Featherstone. Orchestra: Southbank Sinfonia. Conductor: Gerry Cornelius.
    • NMC.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op. 6 No. 8 - 3rd movement

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • DG.

  • Nadia Boulanger

    3 Pieces for Cello and Piano

    Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Performer: Jos茅 Gallardo.
    • NAXOS.

  • Gustav Holst

    Planets Op. 32, No. 6 Uranus - The Magician

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • RESONANCE.

  • Thomas Newman

    Compass and Guns (from Shawshank Redemption)

    Orchestra: Hollywood Studio Symphony.
    • EPIC.

  • Martin L. Gore

    Enjoy the Silence

    Music Arranger: Eric Whitacre. Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers.
    • DECCA.

  • Charles Ives

    The Unanswered Question

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • RCA.

  • Peteris Vasks

    Mate Saule

    Choir: Irish Youth Chamber Choir. Conductor: Greg Beardsell.
    • Ergodos.

Broadcast

  • Sat 9 Jan 2021 13:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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