Am has written music for people of any musical like background or ability to play with the professional orchestra am. The most amazing project that i ever did was just before the pandemic, a group of teen ages from one of the schools that i knew well came to us saying they had started making this piece of music. And em, they asked us to make it to hopis with them. I'vd, like, never met a group of people with that much creativity and passion and energy. We do have bits where the orchestra is spread around. So we'll often start the concert with the orchestra split into smaller groups and then spread across multiple levels of the car park. It's realy
The internationally renowned cellist Steven Isserlis talks to Andrew Marr about his companion guide to The Bach Cello Suites. Isserlis explores why Bach’s Six Suites have become some of the most cherished music, and how Bach takes the audience on a spiritual journey, from joy, through tragedy, to jubilation.
Schubert’s heart-breaking song-cycle Winterreise tells of a young man’s desperate wanderings: the music and the poems creating images of fire and snow, of scalding and frozen tears. The baritone Benjamin Appl, accompanied by James Baillieu, stars in a new BBC film, Winter Journey, filmed in a tower on the snow-covered summit of the Julierpass in south-east Switzerland. An album of the music will be released in February.
The composer and pianist Kate Whitley is also interested in the importance of place in music. But she has taken a different tack, eschewing the often rarefied atmosphere of concert halls, for the concrete heart of city centres. She runs The Multi-Storey Orchestra which performs in car parks around the UK.
Producer: Katy Hickman
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