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Composer and Clarinettist Mark Simpson with a Geyser, a Guitar and a Gran Partita

Composer and clarinettist Mark Simpson opens up a colourful selection of music from the inside - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light.

Composer and clarinettist Mark Simpson takes us behind the scenes of his latest composition, Geysir, which he recorded in lockdown with friends including oboist Nicholas Daniel, horn player Ben Goldscheider and bassoonist Amy Harman. Mark also chooses music by a composer he became obsessed with during 2020, Michael Tippett, and finds the conductor Franz Xavier-Roth breathing new life into Beethoven’s famous Fifth Symphony.

And there’s an ethereal piece by Danish composer Per Nørgård that features an invented language by the Swiss artist Adolf Wölfli.

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

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3

1 hour, 56 minutes

Last on

Sat 21 Aug 2021 13:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Gran Partita - First movement

    Performer: Mark Simpson. Performer: Fraser Langton. Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Emma Feilding. Performer: Amy Harman. Performer: Dom Tyler. Performer: David Stark.

  • Michael Tippett

    Piano Sonata No. 1 - Allegro

    Performer: John Ogdon.

  • The Haxan Cloak

    Soundtrack to Midsommar - Fire Temple

  • Edward Elgar

    Symphony No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 55 - last movement

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.

  • Per Nørgård

    Wie ein Kind - Wiigen-lied

    Ensemble: Ensemble 96. Conductor: Kjetil Almenning.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony No. 1 in D major, Wq183/1 - 1st movement

    Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Andrew Manze.

  • Benjamin Britten

    The Heart of the Matter: Canticle III Still Falls the Rain

    Performer: Jennifer Montone. Performer: Myra Huang. Singer: Nicholas Phan.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 5 - last movement

    Ensemble: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.

  • Gavin Higgins

    3 Broken Love Songs - Love Hurts

    Performer: Mark Simpson. Performer: Ian Buckle.

  • Witold Lutosławski

    Double Concerto - last movement

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Lucy Wakeford. Orchestra: Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Dardanus - "Lieux Funestes"

    Singer: John Mark Ainsley. Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite in C minor, BWV997 - Gigue

    Performer: Sean Shibe.

  • Mark Simpson

    Geysir

    Performer: Mark Simpson. Performer: Fraser Langton. Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Emma Feilding. Performer: Amy Harman. Performer: Dom Tyler. Performer: Ben Goldscheider. Performer: Angela Barnes. Performer: James Pillai. Performer: Fabian van de Geest. Performer: David Stark.

Broadcasts

  • Sat 12 Dec 2020 13:00
    BBC Radio 3
  • Sat 21 Aug 2021 13:00
    BBC Radio 3

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