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A search for the essence of music with Paul Lewis

Pianist Paul Lewis opens up a colourful selection of classical music from the inside - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light.

Today pianist Paul Lewis is bemused by a performance on the player-piano by Marc-AndrΓ© Hamelin, finds the voice of Dame Clara Butt both terrifying and entrancing, and discovers that the combination of two voices, double bass and the composer AntΓ΄nio Carlos Jobim serves to conjure up the very essence of chamber music. He also puts things into perspective by subjecting us to β€˜one of the worst recordings of all time’.

At 2 o’clock Paul plays his Must Listen piece - a work by Schubert for male voices and strings in which Paul hears a depth of sound colour that he’s often searching for in his piano playing.

The series in which each week a musician reveals a selection of music - from the inside.

A Tandem Production for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

1 hour, 58 minutes

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Sat 16 Mar 2019 13:00
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Music Played

  • Baldassare Galuppi

    Sonata in C 1st movement

    Performer: Arturo Michelangeli.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet No.30 in E flat movement 4 - Presto

    Ensemble: Lindsay String Quartet.
    • ASV.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No.4 Op.60 - Adagio

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Hugo Wolf

    Trunken Mussen Wir Alle Sein?

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau.
    • DG.

  • Marc-AndrΓ© Hamelin

    Circus Galop for player piano

    Performer: Bosendorfer Grand Piano with Ampico Player Piano Mechanism. Performer: Fischer Grand Piano with Ampico Player Piano Mechanism.
    • MDG.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Gloria - 3rd movement - Domine Deus

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa. Singer: Kathleen Battle.
    • DG.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Diabelli Variations 31-33

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • The Legendary Stardust Cowboy

    Paralyzed

    • The World's Worst Record Show.
    • K-TEL.
    • 3.

  • Franz Schubert

    Gesang Der Geister Uber Den Wassern D714

    Performer: Ilse Wincor. Performer: Tobias Lea. Performer: Raphael Flieder. Performer: Franz Bartolomey. Singer: Josef Niederhammer. Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Conductor: Erwin Ortner.
    • TELDEC.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Ombra mai fu

    Singer: Clara Butt.
    • MARSTON RECORDS.

  • Witold LutosΕ‚awski

    Paganini Variations for 2 pianos

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • PHILIPS.

  • AntΓ΄nio Carlos Jobim

    Inutil Paisagem

    Performer: Esperanza Spalding. Singer: Esperanza Spalding. Singer: Gretchen Parlato.
    • Chamber Music Society.
    • HEADS UP.
    • 10.

  • Johannes Brahms

    2nd Symphony - Allegro con spirito

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marek Janowski.
    • ASV.

  • Pierre Boulez

    Notation II Tres vif

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    A minor Rondo K.511

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Nocturne Op.60 - Below, the thunders of the upper deep

    Performer: Amy Harman. Singer: Allan Clayton. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • WARNER.

Broadcasts

  • Sat 7 Jul 2018 13:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
  • Sat 16 Mar 2019 13:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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