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Conductor Edwin Outwater with music from Mozart to metal

Conductor Edwin Outwater reveals familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light, from intergalactic Stravinsky to the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra crossed with Metallica.

Conductor Edwin Outwater shares a playlist that draws upon musical inspirations from far and wide. As a young conductor he was mentored by Michael Tilson Thomas and this relationship is the inspiration for music by Debussy and Tilson Thomas himself, as well as a spectacular fusion of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra with heavy metal superstars Metallica.

Edwin also talks about visiting Ella Fitzgerald鈥檚 house every Christmas as a youngster, how music from Schubert鈥檚 song cycle 鈥楽wan Song鈥 conjures up sheer terror, and the challenge of creating a complex recording with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra during lockdown.

And Arnold Schoenberg shows off his lighter side with music that Edwin thinks could be mistaken for George Gershwin.

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

A Tandem Production for 成人快手 Radio 3

Photo credit: David J. Kim

1 hour, 56 minutes

Music Played

  • Mason Bates

    Philharmonia Fantastique - The Making of the Orchestra (Finale & Rebirth of Sprite)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edwin Outwater.
    • SONY.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in B minor, K27

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • SONY.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Le Roi des 脡toiles

    Choir: Cleveland Orchestra Chorus. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 41 (I. Allegro vivace)

    Orchestra: NBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini.
    • RCA.
  • Franz Schubert

    Schwanengesang, D. 957 (XIII. Der Doppelg盲nger)

    Performer: Gerald Moore. Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau.
    • DG.
  • Ella Fitzgerald

    Lush Life

    • PABLO.
  • Louis Spohr

    Nonet in F, Op. 31 (IV. Finale)

    Performer: Wolfgang Schulz. Performer: Hansj枚rg Schellenberger. Performer: Karl Leister. Performer: G眉nter H枚gner. Performer: Milan Turkovi膰. Performer: Gerhart Hetzel. Performer: Wolfram Christ. Performer: Georg Faust. Performer: Alois Posch.
    • DG.
  • Metallica, Scott Pingel, San Francisco Symphony & Edwin Outwater

    (Anesthesia) - Pulling Teeth

    • BLACKENED RECORDINGS.
  • Michael Tilson Thomas

    Meditations on Rilke (IV. Immer wieder)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • SFS MEDIA.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat major (III. Scherzo. Allegro)

    Performer: Eugene Istomin. Performer: Isaac Stern. Performer: Leonard Rose.
    • SONY.
  • Frederick Delius

    The Walk to the Paradise Garden

    Music Arranger: Thomas Beecham. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • WARNER.
  • Nicole Liz茅e

    Schoolhouse 脡tude

    Performer: Megumi Masaki.
    • CENTREDISCS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135 (II. Vivace)

    Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet.
    • DG.
  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Theme and Variations, Op. 43b (VIII. Finale)

    Orchestra: Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Gielen.
    • SWR MUSIC.
  • Laurie Anderson

    Langue D'Amour

    • WARNER.
  • Claude Debussy

    La plus que lente

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • SFS MEDIA.
  • These New Puritans

    Field of Reeds

    Ensemble: These New Puritans. Conductor: Edwin Outwater.
    • INFECTIOUS MUSIC.

Broadcast

  • Sat 8 Oct 2022 13:00

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