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Double bass player Malachy Robinson cooks up a musical storm

Malachy Robinson reveals familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light, including an unusual recording of a well-known symphony and a beautiful setting of a tragic text.

Malachy Robinson is not only principal double bass with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, but also a chamber musician and a viola da gamba player. Today he revisits his days as a choirboy with an anthem by Charles Wood and thinks about how beauty of tone can often be less important than the words being sung.

Malachy shares an arrangement he made of a sonata for cello and piano by his grandfather, Joseph Groocock, reworked for the double bass. And he compares Ravel鈥檚 skill with orchestration to the way chefs mix flavours and textures.

Plus, top tips on how to arrange music for violin, accordion and double bass.

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

1 hour, 56 minutes

Last on

Sat 27 May 2023 13:00
成人快手 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 26 in D minor, "Lamentatione" (I. Allegro assai con spirito)

    Orchestra: La Petite Bande. Conductor: Sigiswald Kuijken.
    • ERATO.

  • Joseph Groocock

    Sonata for double bass & piano (I. Moderato)

    Performer: Malachy Robinson. Performer: Gary Beecher.
    • MALACHY ROBINSON.

  • Charles Wood

    O Thou, the Central Orb

    Performer: Stephen Farr. Choir: Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford. Conductor: Stephen Darlington.
    • NIMBUS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Aria & variations I-VII)

    Performer: Glenn Gould.
    • SONY.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Barber of Seville (Overture)

    Music Arranger: Far Flung Trio. Ensemble: Far Flung Trio.
    • FAR FLUNG TRIO.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 5 in C minor (II. Andante con moto)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • EMI.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Sonata in A, Op. 3, No. 12

    Performer: Monica Huggett. Performer: Alison Bury. Performer: Jaap ter Linden. Performer: Ton Koopman.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Thomas Tomkins

    When David Heard

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Timothy Brown.
    • HERITAGE.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides Op. 28, MWV P7, 'Fingal's Cave'

    Orchestra: Irish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: J枚rg Widmann.
    • ORFEO.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite in G minor BWV 995 (Prelude)

    Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • ALPHA.

  • Donnacha Dennehy

    Streetwalker

    Ensemble: Crash Ensemble.
    • NMC.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Ma m茅re l'Oye, Ballet Suite, M. 62 (Pr茅lude; Danse du rouet et sc猫ne)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Soci茅t茅 des Concerts du Conservatoire. Conductor: Andr茅 Cluytens.
    • WARNER.

  • Francesco Cavalli

    E vuol dunque Ciprigna; Ma in amor ci貌 ch'altri fura (Ercole amante, Act 1)

    Singer: Mariana Flores. Orchestra: Cappella Mediterranea. Conductor: Leonardo Garc铆a Alarc贸n.
    • RICERCAR.

  • Arto J盲rvel盲

    Ellun Sotiisi

    Performer: David Greenberg. Performer: David McGuinness. Ensemble: Concerto Caledonia.
    • MARQUIS.

Broadcast

  • Sat 27 May 2023 13:00
    成人快手 Radio 3

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