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Hannah Peel and Keelan Carew and the power of musical stabs

Producer and composer Hannah Peel and pianist Keelan Carew join Cerys and Jeffrey as they take us from a Hitchcock soundtrack to the canals of Venice.

Composer and producer Hannah Peel and pianist Keelan Carew consider the soundtrack for one of the most famous scenes in cinema, and they take us to Venice where Visconti famously used a celebrated atmospheric Mahler composition for one of his films.

Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye also bring us a track by one of the most successful pop acts of all time as they add five more tracks to the playlist.

Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented, with music direction, by Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

Pump Up The Jam by Technotronic
The Murder by Bernard Herrmann
Symphony No.5; IV Adagietto by Gustav Mahler
Crazy in Love by BeyoncΓ© (ft Jay-Z)
Don’t Give Up On Us by David Soul

Other music in this episode:

The Four Seasons: Summer by Antonio Vivaldi, played by Nigel Kennedy
Spring in Buenos Aires (for piano), by Ástor Piazzolla, played by the Zürcher Klaviertrio
Quadrophonia by Quadrophonia
Good Life by Inner City
Aquamarine by Lone
Move Your Body by Marshall Jefferson
Symphony No.10 in E Minor: Allegro by Dmitri Shostakovich
Are You My Woman (Tell Me So) by the Chi-Lites
Love on Top by BeyoncΓ©

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42 minutes

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  • Fri 23 Jun 2023 19:15
  • Sat 24 Jun 2023 22:15

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