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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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Sat 4 Nov 2017 13:00

Music Played

  • Thomas Tallis

    If Ye Love Me

    Ensemble: Cardinall's Musick. Director: Andrew Carwood.
    • Hyperion CDA 67994.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • 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.
    • 1.
  • Gregorio Allegri

    Miserere mei Deus

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM : CD-085.
    • SIGNUM.
    • 9.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    English Suite No. 3 in G minor BWV.808

    Performer: Glenn Gould.
    • SONY : SM2K-52606.
    • SONY.
    • 18.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Morning Mood (Peer Gynt)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • EMI CLASSICS : 2681-652.
    • EMI CLASSICS.
    • 9.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Lamento D'Arianna

    Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini. Ensemble: Concerto Italiano.
    • NAIVE : OP 30423.
    • NAIVE.
    • 1.
  • 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.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Art of Fugue BWV.1080 (Contrapunctus 14)

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • Channel Classics : CCS SA 38316.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 5.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Mass (Kyrie and Gloria)

    Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Ensemble: Musikfabrik Nrw. Conductor: Daniel Reuss.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI : HMC-801913.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 5.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • EMI : CDC 7-47537-2.
    • EMI.
    • 7.
  • 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.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Sat 4 Nov 2017 13:00

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