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Chineke! Orchestra, Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE & Dame Evelyn Glennie

Jamie MacDougall talks to a pair of trail-blazing musicians, Dame Evelyn Glennie and Chineke! Orchestra founder Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE.

Jamie talks to a pair of trail blazing musicians on this weeks show; Dame Evelyn Glennie, collected her honorary degree of Doctor of Music from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland earlier in the week and shares her thoughts on the importance of listening, both as a young musician and in our lives generally. Plus, Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE, founder of the ground-breaking Chineke! Orchestra speaks to Jamie about its creation and debut release - which is our Album of the Week.

1 hour, 55 minutes

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Sun 9 Jul 2017 21:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Scotland

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Music Played

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Suite from Violin Partita in E Major - Preludio

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach. Performer: Kenneth Hamilton.
    • Liszt, Rachmaninov, Busoni: Back to Bach Tributes and Transcriptions.
    • Prima Facie.
    • 002.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Canzone e danza (Impressioni brasiliane)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Respighi: Orchestral Works: Philharmonia Orchestra/SImon/Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 15.

  • Clair Omar Musser

    Etudes Op.6 (no.10 in C major)

    Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Rhythm Song.
    • RCA.
    • 1.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive Overture Op.96

    Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Shostakovich: Festive Overture, Symphony No. 5.
    • SIGNUM.
    • 1.

  • John Tavener

    The Lamb

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Allegri Miserere.
    • Signum.
    • 3.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Daphnis et ChloΓ© (Lever du jour)

    Choir: Berlin Radio Choir. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Boulez Conducts Debussy & Ravel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, 'From The New World' Jean Sibelius: Finlandia.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 001.

  • Franz Schubert

    Allegretto in C minor D915

    Performer: Javier Perianes.
    • ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Location Recording.

  • CΓ©sar Franck

    Violin Sonata in A major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Performer: Lambert Orkis.
    • The Berlin Recital: Anne-Sophie Mutter/Lambert Orkis.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.

  • Kevin McCrae

    Kirkwall Session

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Director: Stephanie Gonley.
    • ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 Recording.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Suite Champetre

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Stephanie Gonley.
    • ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 Live Recording.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness

    Music Arranger: Timothy Walker. Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 Recording.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Performer: Olga Kern.
    • Rachmaninov: Transcriptions/variations: Olga Kern.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 6.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Suite in C major (Musikalische ErgΓΆtzung)

    Ensemble: Gli Incognito. Conductor: Amandine Beyer.
    • ΄‘±θ΄Η³Ω³σΓ©΄Η²υ±π²υ.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Terje Bjorklund

    Arctos - Concerto for Violin and Strings

    Performer: Marianne Thorsen. Orchestra: The Trondheim Soloists. Conductor: Bjarne Fiskum.
    • Terje Bjorklund Music For Strings.
    • Hemera.
    • 001.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No. 9, Op. 95, 3 mvt: Scherzo

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, Op. 95, 'From The New World' Jean Sibelius: Finl.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 004.

Broadcast

  • Sun 9 Jul 2017 21:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Scotland