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Pianist Emma Abbate on the beauty of teamwork

Pianist Emma Abbate reveals familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light, from a rare recording of Elgar at the piano, to arias that explore complex human psychology.

Today on Inside Music, pianist Emma Abbate looks at music from fresh angles: Brahms’s Clarinet Trio reveals his tender and lyrical style, a piano concerto by Nino Rota celebrates his output beyond film music, and a song by Ildebrando Pizzetti shows that there is a lot more to Italian music than the operatic stereotype.

Emma also admires Handel’s deep understanding of the psychological turmoil of the character Alcina, and Caroline Shaw’s hypnotising string quartet ‘Entr’acte’ draws her in with a repeated motif.

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 3 Jun 2023 13:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Piano Improvisation No.4

    Performer: Edward Elgar.
    • WARNER.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    "E Susanna non vien...Dove sono i bei momenti...Io" (The Marriage of Figaro, Act 3)

    Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • DECCA.

  • Stephen Dodgson

    Piano Quintet No. 1 in C (III. Allegro assai)

    Performer: Emma Abbate. Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • TOCCATA CLASSICS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Gloria in excelsis Deo (Mass in B minor, BWV 232)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Marche du soldat (L'Histoire du Soldat, Part I)

    Performer: Pascal Moraguès. Performer: Sergio Azzolini. Performer: Shlomo Mintz. Performer: Vincent Pasquier. Performer: Marc Bauer. Performer: Daniel Breszynski. Performer: Michel Cerutti. Narrator: Carole Bouquet.
    • NAIVE.

  • Caroline Shaw

    Entr'acte

    Ensemble: Attacca Quartet.
    • NONESUCH.

  • Nino Rota

    Piano Concerto in E minor, 'Piccolo mondo antico' (III. Allegro)

    Performer: Massimo Palumbo. Orchestra: I Virtuosi Italiani. Conductor: Marco Boni.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Lamento Della Ninfa (I. Non Avea Febo Ancora)

    Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • NAIVE.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 (III. Adagio)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DECCA.

  • Jacob do Bandolim

    Doce de coco

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Romero Lubambo. Performer: Paquito D’Rivera.
    • SONY.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, D. 485 (I. Allegro)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

  • George Frideric Handel

    "Ah! mio cor! Schernito sei!" (Alcina, Act 2)

    Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Orchestra: Il Complesso Barocco. Conductor: Alan Curtis.
    • DG.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114 (III. Andantino grazioso)

    Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Torleif Thedéen. Performer: Roland Pöntinen.
    • BIS.

  • Elizabeth Maconchy

    The Land, Suite for Orchestra (II. Spring)

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Odaline de la Martínez.
    • LORELT.

  • Ildebrando Pizzetti

    Sera d'inverno

    Performer: Emma Abbate. Singer: Hanna Hipp.
    • RESONUS.

Broadcast

  • Sat 3 Jun 2023 13:00
    BBC Radio 3

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