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Who Makes the Music?

Mark Tully talks to musician and academic John Rink about shifting perceptions of the relationship between composer and performer. Music ranges from classical to jazz and soul.

There is a golden chain in music which links the author of a work, its various performers and the audiences who hear it. Mark Tully investigates the creative part played by each of these groups over the life of a piece.

He discusses the creative responsibilities and expectations of music making with musician and Professor of Performance Studies, John Rink, and they explore the challenges to traditional attitudes in this artistic chain.

The music chosen includes Chopin, sacred music interpreted by the Hilliard Ensemble, jazz from Billie Holliday and soul from the Edwin Hawkins Singers. There is argument from Igor Stravinsky, Peter Maxwell Davies, Shakespeare and American poet David Lee Garrison.

The readers are Francis Cadder, Christopher Harper and Polly Frame.

Presenter: Mark Tully
Producer: Frank Stirling

A 7digital production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.

30 minutes

Last on

Sun 12 Nov 2017 23:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Antoine Brumel

    Missa Victimae paschali laudes - Kyrie

    Performer: The Hilliard Ensemble.
    • Hilliard Ensemble: Antoine Brumel.
    • Coro.
    • COR16052.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Eight Songs for a Mad King - the first song

    Performer: Julius Eastman. Performer: The Fires of London.
    • Miss Donnithorne's Maggot/Eight Songs for a Mad King.
    • Unicorn-Kanchana.
    • DPK(CD)-9052.

  • Arlen/Koehler

    I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues

    Performer: Billie Holiday.
    • Greatest Hits: Billie Holiday.
    • Classic Music International.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Three Songs from William Shakespeare: I. Musick To Heare

    Performer: Cathy Berberian, Igor Stravinsky, The Columbia Chamber Ensemble.
    • Stravinsky: The Owl And The Pussycat.
    • Sony Classical.
    • SM2K46298.

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Lento From Piano Sonata No 2 in B Flat Minor Composed by Chopin

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Khatia Buniatishvili: Chopin.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 885691971292.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Musique religieuse, Op. 113: No. 1 Avaushymni (Opening Hymn)

    Performer: Harri Viitanen.
    • Musique religieuse.
    • BIS.

  • Trad.

    Oh Happy Day

    Performer: Edwin Hawkins Singers.
    • 25 Years of Rock 'n' Roll.
    • Connoisseur.
    • RRT CD-69.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita for Violin Solo No. 2

    Performer: David Garrett. Performer: Alexander Markovich.
    • Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 5; Bach: Partita No. 2; Mozart: Adagio.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 445 657-2.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Largo from Symphony in D major Wq183 No. 1

    Performer: Orchestra and the Choir of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • Symphonies WQ. 182 & WQ. 182 Nos 1-4.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • VC790862.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 12 Nov 2017 06:05
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 FM
  • Sun 12 Nov 2017 23:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4