Oboist Titus Underwood explores musical conflicts and resolutions
Oboist Titus Underwood opens up a selection of music from an oboist's point of view - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light.
Titus Underwood is the principal oboe of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra in the USA and a member of the UK-based Chineke! He is also a filmmaker, a committed teacher and passionate advocate of black artists in the classical music world. In today’s Inside Music, Titus’s choices range from concertos by Samuel Coleridge Taylor and JS Bach to emotional miniatures by Florence Price and a dramatic recreation for piano of the first major battle of the American Civil War.
Titus also explains the power that his first musical love, hip hop, has over him, with tracks by Kanye West and Outkast.
This programme contains racially sensitive language.
A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.
A Tandem Production for ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3
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Margaret Bonds
Troubled Water (Spiritual Suite)
Performer: Maria Corley.- ALBANY.
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William Grant Still
Symphony No. 2, 'Song of a New Race' (II. Moderately slow)
Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.- NAXOS.
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Sylvan Esso
Hey Mami
- PARTISAN RECORDS.
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Florence Price
Adoration
Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Zhu wang.- DECCA.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade in C minor, K. 388 (I. Allegro)
Ensemble: Netherlands Wind Ensemble.- CHANDOS.
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Blind Tom Wiggins
Battle of Manassas
Performer: Akira Eguchi.- NYS CLASSICS.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Violin Concerto in G minor (II. Andante)
Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Philharmonic. Conductor: Andrew Davis.- CHANDOS.
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R. Nathaniel Dett
In the Bottoms (III. Humoresque. Honey; IV. Barcarolle. Morning; V. Dance. Juba)
Performer: Clipper Erickson.- NAVONA RECORDS.
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Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
String Quartet in C, Op. 1, No. 1 (II. Rondeau)
Ensemble: Juilliard String Quartet.- SONY.
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Ye
Can't Tell Me Nothing
- ROC-A-FELLA RECORDS.
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Florence Price
Night
Performer: Artina McCain. Singer: Icy Rene Simpson.- LONGHORN MUSIC.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F, BWV 1047
Performer: David Hickman. Performer: Peter Bowman. Orchestra: Banff Festival Strings. Director: Thomas Rolston.- SUMMIT RECORDS.
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William Dawson
Negro Folk Symphony (I. The Bond of Africa)
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- CHANDOS.
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OutKast
SpottieOttieDopaliscious
- LAFACE RECORDS.
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Fred Onovwerosuoke
Studies in African Rhythms (XXIII. 'Sanza')
Performer: Rebeca Omordia.- HERITAGE.
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John Rosamond Johnson
Fantasia on Lift Every Voice
Music Arranger: Fred Onovwerosuoke. Ensemble: Titus Underwood & friends.
Broadcasts
- Sat 18 Sep 2021 13:00³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3
- Sat 19 Nov 2022 13:00³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3