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Bobby Friction

Fist-pumping highs to tear-jerking lows - Bobby finds it all in Clemmie's playlist, with music by Bernstein, Debussy and Thomas Adès.

Fist-pumping highs to tear-jerking lows - Bobby Friction from Â鶹ԼÅÄ Asian Network finds it all in this week's playlist as he discovers a powerful emotional virus lurking in the music of French composer Claude Debussy but says [spoiler] NO NO NOT NOT NOT NO NO to Dvorak.

Bobby's playlist in full

Bernstein: Candide Overture
Couperin: Les Baricades Misterieuses (arranged by Thomas Ades)
Debussy: Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (from Children’s Corner)
Dvorak: String Quartet in F AKA "American"
Purcell: Music for a While (from Oedipus)
Smetana: Vltava (from Ma Vlast)

Bonus tracks

Ravi Shankar's Raga Piloo
The Humma Song from OK Jaanu

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29 minutes

Last on

Mon 22 Jun 2020 00:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Candide (Overture)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • Mehta - Gershwin; Copland; Bernstein; Kraft.
    • Decca.
    • 10.

  • François Couperin

    Les Barricades Mysterieuses

    Music Arranger: Thomas Adès. Ensemble: The Composers Ensemble.
    • Ades: America: A Prophecy.
    • Warner.
    • 14.

  • Claude Debussy

    Dr Gradus ad Parnassum (Children's Corner)

    Performer: Simon Trpceski.
    • Debussy: Images/Children's Corner etc: Simon Trpceski.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quartet in F, Op 96, 'American' (Finale)

    Ensemble: Juilliard String Quartet.
    • Sony.

  • Henry Purcell

    Music for a while (Oedipus)

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Performer: Laurence Cummings.
    • BIS.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Vltava (Má vlast)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • B. Smetana; Ma Vlast: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Belohlavek.
    • Supraphon.
    • 2.

  • Ravi Shankar

    Raga Piloo

    Performer: Yehudi Menuhin.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 30 Jul 2018 00:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3
  • Mon 22 Jun 2020 00:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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