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Dinara Klinton and Neil Brand continue the journey

Pianist Dinara Klinton and composer Neil Brand join Cerys and Jeffrey as they choose the next five tracks and explain the fine detail of musical composition.

Pianist Dinara Klinton and composer and writer Neil Brand join Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye to select the next five tracks on the playlist, each track chosen for its musical connections with the previous one.

From grief to joy, they unpick the familiar and the not-so-familiar musical tracks, and demonstrate how the compositions work.

Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye
Producer Jerome Weatherald

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

I Can See for Miles by The Who
Piano Sonata No. 6 in A Major, Op 82 by Sergei Prokofiev (First movement)
Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber
Introvert by Little Simz
Blue Pepper (Far East of the Blues) by Duke Ellington

Other music in this episode:

Solfeggietto in C Minor by CPE Bach
You're the Voice by John Farnham
Don't Cry for me, Argentina by Andrew Lloyd Webber, sung by Julie Covington
Che Gelida Manina from La Boh猫me by Puccini, sung by Luciano Pavarotti
Samba de Uma Nota S贸 (One Note Samba) by Antonio Carlos Jobim
Zdravitsa (Cantata) by Prokofiev
Barber's Adagio for Strings by William Orbit (Ferry Corsten remix)
Adagio for Strings by Ti毛sto
Free Years Later by Kano
Fine Wine by Ghetts

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42 minutes

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  • Fri 11 Mar 2022 19:15

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