Violinist Rakhi Singh with strings bowed and brushed
Rakhi Singh reveals familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light, including baroque music with a folky twist, and a very old piece reinvented for electric guitar.
Rakhi Singh is a violinist, composer and co-founder of Manchester Collective. Today her instrument features in a Vivaldi concerto that鈥檚 full of rhythmic groove, and in string quartets by Beethoven and Edmund Finnis.
Rakhi admires the luxurious voicing and use of vibrato in a recording of George Enescu鈥檚 Octet for strings, is drawn to the asymmetry in Olli Mustonen's Nonet No.2, and connects Stravinsky's angular melodic writing with the falling shapes in a game of Tetris.
Plus, she finds similarities between Indian singing and a traditional Hungarian song, and enjoys the vast sense of space that can be evoked by ethereal choral music.
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
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Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau
Les cyclopes
Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.- DG.
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George Enescu
String Octet in C major, Op. 7 (III. Lentement)
Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble.- CHANDOS.
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Igor Stravinsky
Symphony of Psalms (I. Exaudi orationem meam, Domine)
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.- ORFEO.
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Henry Cowell
Aeolian Harp
Performer: Steffen Schleiermacher.- hat.
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Olli Mustonen
Nonet No. 2 (IV. Vivacissimo)
Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Olli Mustonen.- ONDINE.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135 (III. Lento assai, cantante e tranquillo)
Ensemble: Lindsay String Quartet.- ASV.
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Traditional Hungarian
Szerelem, szerelem
Singer: M谩rta Sebesty茅n.- HUNGAROTON.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto grosso in G minor, RV 156
Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Hymn of the Cherubim
Choir: State Chamber Choir of Moscow Conservatory. Conductor: Valery Kuzmich Polyansky.- HEARTS OF SPACE.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Idomeneo, re di Creta, K. 366 (Overture)
Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- DG ARCHIV.
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Henry Purcell
There's not a swain
Performer: Emma Smith. Performer: Vince Sipprell. Performer: Ian Burdge. Performer: Laurence Durantel. Singer: Olivia Chaney.- NONESUCH.
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Gy枚rgy Ligeti
Fanfares (脡tudes, Book 1, No. 4)
Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.- SONY.
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Maurice Ravel
Rapsodie espagnole, M. 54 (IV. Feria)
Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.- CHANDOS.
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Edmund Finnis
String Quartet No. 2: IV.
Ensemble: Manchester Collective.- BEDROOM COMMUNITY.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 6 (mvmts 4 & 5)
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.- DG.
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Hildegard von Bingen
O choruscans lux stellarum
Performer: Sean Shibe. Music Arranger: Sean Shibe.- PENTATONE.
Broadcast
- Sat 22 Apr 2023 13:00大象传媒 Radio 3
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