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Chamber Music and Instrumental Legacies

Musician and composer Tunde Jegede celebrates the classical musics of Africa, featuring the Griot traditions of Mali and The Gambia plus thumb piano polyphony from Zimbabwe.

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Tunde Jegede grew up inside two musical traditions: the Western Classical music of his cello studies and schooling in London; and the kora repertoire of The Gambia, where he spent his school holidays as a young mentee of the griot musician Amadu Bansang Jobarteh. As his musicianship in the UK developed, Jegede began to find it strange how the music of western composers was so easily considered to be art music worthy of the title 鈥淐lassical鈥�, while African pieces were often talked about as culturally-confined curiosities, regardless of how complex or canonical they are. In this series, Jegede sets out to celebrate a variety of African Classical traditions on their own terms, picking out musical details and offering connections and contrasts.

In this first episode, he explores the instrumental legacies of West African Griot music as well as thumb piano polyphony from Zimbabwe. Plus there's the opportunity to consider the work of African composers operating within Western Classical Music who incorporate into their solo studies and chamber works the sounds, structures and approaches of their own African classical traditions.

Produced by Phil Smith
A Reduced Listening production for 成人快手 Radio 3

59 minutes

Last on

Sun 8 Oct 2023 23:00
成人快手 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • African Classical Music Ensemble

    Dawn - Rising Storm

  • Jennifer Erikkson & The Marais Project

    Suite No. 2 in G minor, Pie虁ces en Trio, Paris 1692 Rondeau

  • Tunde Jegede

    Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, Pr茅lude

  • Amadu Bansang Jobarteh

    Alla L'aa Ke

    • EAVADISC.

  • Wali Cham & Madou Diabate虂

    Sori

  • Stella Chiweshe

    Ratidzo

    • Kasahwa: Early Singles.

  • Hukwe Zawose

    Mateso

    • Master Musicians Of Tanzania.
    • Triple Earth.

  • Tunde Jegede

    Songs of the Eternal

  • Hamza El Din

    Fegir Nedan (Call To Worship)

    • Music of Nubia.
    • Vanguard Records.

  • Bheki Mseleku

    Meditation Suite

    • Meditations.
    • Verve Records.

  • Rebeca Omordia

    Nigerian Suite I. Forest Rains

    • Ekele: Piano Music by African Composers.
    • 贬茅谤颈迟补驳别.

  • Rebeca Omordia

    24 Studies in African Rhythms

    • Ekele: Piano Music by African Composers.
    • 贬茅谤颈迟补驳别.

  • Rebeca Omordia

    Three Yoruba Songs Without Words - Mo Ja'we Gbegbe

    • Main Catalogue.

  • Castle of Our Skins & Samantha Ege

    Safika II

    • Lontano Records.

  • Tunde Jegede & NOK Orchestra

    Let The Elements Sing & Dance

Broadcast

  • Sun 8 Oct 2023 23:00
    成人快手 Radio 3