Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston with joyful birds and heartfelt words
Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston reveals familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light, from six-note ingenuity to symphonic energy at its highest.
Today on Inside Music, mezzo-soprano and ´óÏó´«Ã½ New Generation Artist Helen Charlston finds music that surprises her - from a charmingly simple piece that's based on just six notes of the scale (but is far from boring), to a transcription of a Wagner opera that she thinks is just as powerful on the piano as it is with full orchestra.
Helen also plays a recording by the ensemble The Hermes Experiment which breaks the musical ‘fourth wall’ and she urges you to close your eyes and follow the melodic baton that Bach passes round the musicians in his third Brandenburg Concerto.
Plus, two singers who inspire Helen’s own approach to music making…
A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.
A Tandem Production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3
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Music Played
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George Frideric Handel
Dopo Notte (Ariodante)
Singer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Clara Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 7 (III. Finale)
Performer: Veronica Jochum. Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Joseph Silverstein.- TUDOR.
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Caroline Shaw
To the Hands (II. In medio)
Choir: The Crossing. Ensemble: International Contemporary Ensemble. Conductor: Donald Nally.- INNOVA.
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John Dowland
In Darkness Let Me Dwell
Performer: Jakob Lindberg. Singer: Emma Kirkby.- BIS.
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Leonard Bernstein
Candide (Overture)
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.- SONY CLASSICAL.
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Johann Balthasar Erben
Sonata Sopra ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la
Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen. Director: Lars Ulrik Mortensen.- DA CAPO.
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Owain Park
18th April
Performer: Alexander Soares. Singer: Helen Charlston. Singer: Michael Craddock.- DELPHIAN.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93 (II. Allegro)
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.- NAXOS.
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Sarah Rimkus
My Heart is Like a Singing Bird
Ensemble: Gesualdo Six. Conductor: Owain Park.- HYPERION.
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Franz Schubert
String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, 'Death and the Maiden' (III. Scherzo)
Ensemble: Lindsay String Quartet.- ASV.
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Barbara Strozzi
L'Eraclito amoroso Op.2 no.14
Singer: Helen Charlston. Performer: Toby Carr.- DELPHIAN.
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Richard Wagner
Isoldes Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde, S. 447)
Performer: Jeremy Denk.- NONESUCH.
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Philip Venables
A Photograph
Ensemble: Hermes Experiment.- DELPHIAN.
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Edward Elgar
The Dream of Gerontius (Overture)
Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: John Barbirolli.- WARNER.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Director: Masaaki Suzuki.- BIS.
Broadcast
- Sat 25 Feb 2023 13:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3