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Pianist, composer and technologist Zubin Kanga with sounds synthesised and spectral

Zubin Kanga reveals familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light, from Miles Davis playing Gershwin to Schubert鈥檚 鈥楧eath and the Maiden鈥 quartet.

Zubin Kanga is a pianist, composer and technologist who is interested in how musical performers can interact with new technologies. Some of his choices reflect this, with Bach played on the synthesiser by Wendy Carlos, a live synthesiser improvisation by Suzanne Ciani, and a piece by Zubin that takes some of his recordings and turns them into something new using Artificial Intelligence.

There's also plenty of other music including a prelude by Debussy where the pianist demonstrates incredible fluid technique, motets by WIlliam Byrd, and a movement by Berlioz where the composer plays with the orchestra like it鈥檚 a keyboard instrument.

Plus, a piece where Miles Davis sings on his trumpet.

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

Photo credit: Raphael Neal

1 hour, 56 minutes

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No.3 BWV 1048 (III. Allegro)

    Performer: Wendy Carlos.
    • COLUMBIA MASTERWORKS.
  • William Byrd

    Rorate coeli

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • KINGS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE.
  • William Byrd

    Justorum animae

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • KINGS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE.
  • William Byrd

    Civitas Sancti Tui

    Choir: Ensemble of King's College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • KINGS COLLEGE.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Concerto in E flat Major "Dumbarton Oaks" (I. Tempo giusto)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Pantomime (Daphnis et Chlo茅, M. 57, Part 3)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.
  • Chick Corea

    Armando's Rhumba

    • POLYDOR.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet No. 14 in D minor 'Death and the Maiden' (II. Andante con moto)

    Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • HYPERION.
  • Claude Debussy

    Feuilles mortes (Preludes, Book 2)

    Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.
    • DG.
  • Zubin Kanga

    Metamemory (extract)

    • NONCLASSICAL.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Recordare (Requiem in D minor, K. 626)

    Performer: Barbara Bonney. Performer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Hans Peter Blochwitz. Performer: Willard White. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    Quartet for the End of Time (VIII. "Louange 脿 l'Immortalit茅 de J茅sus")

    Ensemble: Fibonacci Sequence.
    • DEUX-ELLES.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie Fantastique (I. Reveries - Passions)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Miles Davis Band

    It Ain't Necessarily So (Porgy and Bess)

    • COLUMBIA.
  • Kaija Saariaho

    "J'esp猫re encore, mon Dieu" (L'Amour de loin, Act 5)

    Singer: Ekaterina Lekhina. Choir: Berlin Radio Choir. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Francesco Cavalli

    Canzon in 3 parts (Musiche sacre concernenti messa)

    Ensemble: London Baroque.
    • BIS.
  • Suzanne Ciani

    Concert at WBAI Free Music Store (excerpt)

    • FINDERS KEEPERS RECORDS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo alla turca from piano sonata No. 11 in A K. 331 (Turkish Rondo)

    Performer: Martynas. Ensemble: RaVen Quartet.

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  • Sat 14 Oct 2023 13:00

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