Rachel Podger
Rachel Podger, 'Queen of the Baroque violin', shares the music that has helped to define her musical personality - much of it encountered during her childhood years in Kassel.
In the second of two programmes Rachel Podger, described by The Sunday Times as "Queen of the Baroque violin", shares the music that has helped to define her musical personality - much of it encountered during her childhood years in Kassel. Rachel's choices range from Tallis to Stravinsky via Monteverdi, Mozart, Schubert, Brahms and Vaughan Williams, and not forgetting her beloved Bach, of whose music she says "I don't think a day goes by when I don't play some or listen to some'. She talks engagingly about singing in her father's choir, The William Byrd Singers, where she absorbed Renaissance polyphony "by osmosis"; a memorable school-chamber orchestra trip round Eastern Europe in the declining years of the Ostblock; her love of Glenn Gould's idiosyncratic approach to the performance of Bach's music; her revelatory first encounter with 'authentic' performance practice; and much more.
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Music Played
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Thomas Tallis
If Ye Love Me
Ensemble: Cardinall's Musick. Director: Andrew Carwood.- Hyperion CDA 67994.
- Hyperion.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K.550 (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- ARCHIV : 477-5798.
- ARCHIV.
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Gregorio Allegri
Miserere mei Deus
Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.- SIGNUM : CD-085.
- SIGNUM.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
English Suite No. 3 in G minor BWV.808
Performer: Glenn Gould.- SONY : SM2K-52606.
- SONY.
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Edvard Grieg
Morning Mood (Peer Gynt)
Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- EMI CLASSICS : 2681-652.
- EMI CLASSICS.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Lamento D'Arianna
Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini. Ensemble: Concerto Italiano.- NAIVE : OP 30423.
- NAIVE.
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Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 8 in B minor D.759 (1st mvt)
Orchestra: London Classical Players. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.- EMI : CDC-749968-2.
- EMI.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Art of Fugue BWV.1080 (Contrapunctus 14)
Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.- Channel Classics : CCS SA 38316.
- Channel Classics.
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Igor Stravinsky
Mass (Kyrie and Gloria)
Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Ensemble: Musikfabrik Nrw. Conductor: Daniel Reuss.- HARMONIA MUNDI : HMC-801913.
- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Barbirolli.- EMI : CDC 7-47537-2.
- EMI.
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Johannes Brahms
Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (Ein Deutsches Requiem)
Choir: Berlin Radio Choir. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- EMI CLASSICS : 0946-36539324.
- EMI CLASSICS.
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Broadcast
- Sat 4 Nov 2017 13:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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