Fiddle singer and composer Nancy Kerr with creative connections
Nancy Kerr opens up a selection of classical music from a folk musician’s point of view - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light.
Nancy Kerr is a multi-award-winning fiddle singer and songwriter. As a musician, she brings her own individual take to traditional folk material and as a writer she combines folk mythology with tales of 21st century life.
Today, Nancy chooses pieces that highlight the lines of connection between some wildly different musical styles, including Bartok dances played first by the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and then the Romani group Taraf De Haïdouks. There’s also Gaelic music inspired by masters of the Italian baroque, and a song by Vaughan Williams that goes back to its earthy roots.
Plus romantic pieces for violin and piano by Dvorak, an orchestral favourite by Gustav Holst and some brain-taxing miniatures by JS Bach.
A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3.
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Zequinha de Abreu
Nao me Toques
Performer: Caterina Lichtenberg. Performer: Mike Marshall.- ADVENTURE MUSIC.
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Dyahma and Donalogue
Performer: Sheila Chandra.- REAL WORLD RECORDS.
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Gustav Holst
Jupiter from The Planets Suite
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- DG.
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Dance to your Daddy
Performer: Nancy Kerr. Performer: James Fagan. Music Arranger: Nancy Kerr.- FELLSIDE RECORDINGS.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Two part invention No. 6 in E major, BWV 777
Performer: Sir András Schiff.- DECCA.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Three part invention No. 12 in A major, BWV 798
Performer: Sir András Schiff.- DECCA.
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Leonard Bernstein
I have a love from West Side Story
Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Singer: Tatiana Troyanos. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.- DG.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Allegro from Duo for Violin and Viola in G major, K423
Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: Kim Kashkashian.- DG.
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Ethel Smyth
The March of the Women
Orchestra: Suffrage Sinfonia. Choir: Kantos Chamber Choir.- ABC.
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Béla Bartók
Romanian Folk Dances
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.- PHILIPS.
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Béla Bartók
Romanian Folk Dances
Ensemble: Taraf de Haïdouks.- CRAMMED DISCS.
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Brigg Fair
Music Arranger: Percy Grainger. Singer: Ian Bostridge. Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.- WARNER.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in F major, RV 574
Ensemble: Les Ambassadeurs. Conductor: Alexis Kossenko.- ALPHA.
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Turlough O'Carolan
Carolan's Concerto (Lost Music of the Gaels)
Composer: Luke Daniels. Performer: Jarlath Henderson. Performer: Laura Moody. Performer: Matt Baker. Performer: John-Paul Gandy. Performer: Rachel Robson. Performer: Chris Stout.- WREN RECORDS.
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Antonín Dvořák
Allegro Moderato and Allegro Maestoso - Nos 1 & 2 from 4 Romantic Pieces, Op. 75
Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Samuel Sanders.- EMI.
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Nancy Kerr
Seven Notes (Adieu my love)
Performer: Nancy Kerr. Ensemble: Sweet Visitor Band.- NANCY KERR.
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Claude Debussy
Cloches a travers les feuilles (Images II)
Performer: Seong-Jin Cho.- DG.
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George Butterworth
The Banks of Green Willow
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.- BELART.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Linden Lea
Performer: Fay Hield. Ensemble: The Full English.- TOPIC RECORDS.
Broadcasts
- Sat 7 Mar 2020 13:00BBC Radio 3
- Sat 21 Nov 2020 13:00BBC Radio 3
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