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Oboist Titus Underwood explores musical conflicts and resolutions

Oboist Titus Underwood opens up a selection of music from an oboist's point of view - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light.

Titus Underwood is the principal oboe of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra in the USA and a member of the UK-based Chineke! He is also a filmmaker, a committed teacher and passionate advocate of black artists in the classical music world. In today’s Inside Music, Titus’s choices range from concertos by Samuel Coleridge Taylor and JS Bach to emotional miniatures by Florence Price and a dramatic recreation for piano of the first major battle of the American Civil War.

Titus also explains the power that his first musical love, hip hop, has over him, with tracks by Kanye West and Outkast.

This programme contains racially sensitive language.

A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.

A Tandem Production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

1 hour, 56 minutes

Last on

Sat 19 Nov 2022 13:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Margaret Bonds

    Troubled Water (Spiritual Suite)

    Performer: Maria Corley.
    • ALBANY.

  • William Grant Still

    Symphony No. 2, 'Song of a New Race' (II. Moderately slow)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • NAXOS.

  • Sylvan Esso

    Hey Mami

    • PARTISAN RECORDS.

  • Florence Price

    Adoration

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Zhu wang.
    • DECCA.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in C minor, K. 388 (I. Allegro)

    Ensemble: Netherlands Wind Ensemble.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Blind Tom Wiggins

    Battle of Manassas

    Performer: Akira Eguchi.
    • NYS CLASSICS.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Violin Concerto in G minor (II. Andante)

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • CHANDOS.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    In the Bottoms (III. Humoresque. Honey; IV. Barcarolle. Morning; V. Dance. Juba)

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • NAVONA RECORDS.

  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    String Quartet in C, Op. 1, No. 1 (II. Rondeau)

    Ensemble: Juilliard String Quartet.
    • SONY.

  • Ye

    Can't Tell Me Nothing

    • ROC-A-FELLA RECORDS.

  • Florence Price

    Night

    Performer: Artina McCain. Singer: Icy Rene Simpson.
    • LONGHORN MUSIC.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F, BWV 1047

    Performer: David Hickman. Performer: Peter Bowman. Orchestra: Banff Festival Strings. Director: Thomas Rolston.
    • SUMMIT RECORDS.

  • William Dawson

    Negro Folk Symphony (I. The Bond of Africa)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • CHANDOS.

  • OutKast

    SpottieOttieDopaliscious

    • LAFACE RECORDS.

  • Fred Onovwerosuoke

    Studies in African Rhythms (XXIII. 'Sanza')

    Performer: Rebeca Omordia.
    • HERITAGE.

  • John Rosamond Johnson

    Fantasia on Lift Every Voice

    Music Arranger: Fred Onovwerosuoke. Ensemble: Titus Underwood & friends.

Broadcasts

  • Sat 18 Sep 2021 13:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
  • Sat 19 Nov 2022 13:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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