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Intimate music-making with cellist Andrew Yee

Cellist Andrew Yee opens up a colourful selection of music from the inside - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light.

Andrew Yee is the cellist from the Grammy award-winning Attacca Quartet and in this show he gathers up a selection of pieces that are centred around the intimate side of music-making. There鈥檚 a viol consort playing Orlando Gibbons, emotional pianism from Claude Frank, luscious textures from Bernard Hermann and delicate word painting for male chorus by Franz Schubert.

Andrew also talks about the powerful effect song has on him - from Richard Strauss causing him to be issued with a speeding ticket, to the lyrical confusion he experiences when listening to singer-songwriter Gillian Welch.

Plus revelations about working with the composer Caroline Shaw and how the Attacca Quartet鈥檚 approach to music-making is often focused on singing rather than playing their instruments.

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

A Tandem Production for 成人快手 Radio 3

1 hour, 56 minutes

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata No. 1 in G minor - IV - Presto

    Performer: Chris Thile.
    • NONESUCH.
  • Robert Schumann

    Arabesque in C minor Op. 18

    Performer: Claude Frank.
    • SONO LUMINUS.
  • Caroline Shaw

    Entr'acte

    Ensemble: Attacca Quartet.
    • NEW AMSTERDAM.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Don Giovanni - Overture

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Gillian Welch

    Dear Someone

    Performer: Gillian Welch.
    • ACONY RECORDS.
  • Vittorio Monti

    V: Csardas

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Performer: Vag Papian. Ensemble: Virtuosi. Conductor: Mikhail Parhamovsky.
    • WARNER.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    Fancies for viols: Fantasia in G minor a 6

    Ensemble: L鈥橝ch茅ron.
    • Ricercar.
  • The Secret Sisters

    You don't own me anymore

    Performer: The Secret Sisters.
    • NEW WEST RECORDS.
  • Bernard Herrmann

    Vertigo - Scene d'amour

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • SONY.
  • Franz Schubert

    Gesang der Geister uber den Wassern Op. 167 D 714

    Performer: Orphei Dr盲ngar. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Sund.
    • BIS.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Organ Concerto in G minor - Mvts 1 & 2

    Performer: James O鈥橠onnell. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • LPO.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet Op. 59 No. 2 - 1st movement

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Richard Strauss

    Wiegenlied from Orchesterlieder

    Singer: Ren茅e Fleming. Orchestra: Houston Symphony. Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach.
    • RCA.
  • Nathan Schram

    Oyelo

    Ensemble: Attacca Quartet.
    • NEW AMSTERDAM RECORDS.
  • Meredith Willson

    My White Knight (The Music Man)

    Performer: Barbara Cook. Orchestra: Original Broadcast Cast.
    • CAPITOL RECORDS.

Broadcast

  • Sat 4 Apr 2020 13:00

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