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Part 7: Uchenna Ngwe

Oboist and researcher Uchenna Ngwe charts a course through music both familiar and unfamiliar. With music by Shostakovich, Errollyn Wallen, Duke Ellington and Joseph Bologne.

Oboist and researcher Uchenna Ngwe explores unusual and surprising connections as she charts a course through music familiar and unfamiliar.

In today's episode, vocalist Sarah Vaughan lulls and teases our emotions. whilst Duke Ellington and Errollyn Wallen mischievously riff from classical to jazz and vice-versa. Meanwhile we move from one extraordinary musical life lived under a stifling societal code, to another two centuries before - as Uchenna explores the remarkable stories of Dmitri Shostakovich and Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

A new voice to 成人快手 Radio 3, Uchenna Ngwe is a freelance oboist and researcher from Tottenham, North London. She鈥檚 performed with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, St Paul鈥檚 Sinfonia and KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra among others - and is also the artistic director of Decus Ensemble, a group dedicated to exploring lesser-known classical works.

30 minutes

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Mon 28 Dec 2020 00:00

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  • Mon 28 Dec 2020 00:00