Storytelling
Singer Nora Fischer celebrates the huge variety of sounds the human larynx can produce in three diverse and fascinating playlists.
In a series of three shows, Nora celebrates what the voice can do with a fabulously diverse playlist of tracks from around the world and across the centuries.
She listens to raw and passionate Bulgarian and Scandinavian singing alongside the profound warmth of Russian basses. She compares the ethereal angst of the voice of the last castrato to the effect of the longest high tenor C in classical music. And she sets the twisting ornamental lines of an 18th-century Handel opera aria next to the runs perfected by Whitney Houston and Beyonc茅.
In the final episode of her series, Nora Fischer finds out how a vocalist can tell a tale - not just in the words they鈥檙e singing, but in the very character of their voice. She showcases the unique styles of Lotte Lenya, Nina Simone and Frank Sinatra - artists who seem to embody the very meaning of each song they perform. And she finds composers like Gesualdo, Handel and Schoenberg creating emotion and tension through their manipulation of vocal lines as stories unfold before our ears.
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Music Played
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Pierre Passereau
Il est bel est bon
Ensemble: Amarcord. -
Kurt Weill
Pirate Jenny
Performer: Lotte Lenya. -
Kurt Weill
Pirate Jenny
Performer: Nina Simone. -
Claudio Monteverdi
Possente spirto from L'Orfeo
Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. -
Sigurj贸n Birgir Sigur冒sson
Oceania
Performer: Bj枚rk. -
George Frideric Handel
Curio, Caesar has come from Julius Caesar (Act I)
Singer: Janet Baker. Singer: Sarah Walker. Orchestra: The English National Opera Orchestra. -
Arnold Schoenberg
Gemeinheit from Pierrot Lunaire (Part 3)
Singer: Christine Sch盲fer. Ensemble: Ensemble intercontemporain. Conductor: Pierre Boulez. -
Lene Lovich
Wir leben immer...noch (We are still living)
Performer: Nina Hagen. -
Jule Styne
Rose's Turn from Gypsy
Performer: Ethel Merman. Ensemble: Original Broadcast Cast. -
Carlo Gesualdo
Moro lasso
Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini. -
Modest Mussorgsky
The Field Marshall - No. 4 of Songs and Dances of Death
Orchestrator: Dmitry Shostakovich. Singer: Ferruccio Furlanetto. Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev. -
Sam Cooke
A Change is Gonna Come
Performer: Otis Redding. -
B茅la Bart贸k
Szenagyujteskor (dedinska Sceny BB 87a)
Performer: Nora Fischer. Performer: Dani毛l Kool. -
Anton Bruckner
Tota Pulchra Es Maria (Antiphon)
Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers. -
Camille
Tout dit
Performer: Camille.
Broadcasts
- Sun 20 Dec 2020 23:00成人快手 Radio 3
- Sun 19 Sep 2021 23:00成人快手 Radio 3