Episodes
Series | Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
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2016 | 01 | Sound Frontiers: Anoushka Shankar | 20161003 | As part of Radio 3 live at Southbank Centre, London, Donald Macleod speaks to five members of a new generation of British composers about their work. Featuring music by Anoushka Shankar, Gwilym Simcock, Helen Grime, Anna Meredith and Daniel Kidane. Donald's first guest this week is composer and sitar player Anoushka Shankar (1981-). Trained from the age of 9 by her father Ravi Shankar in the classical style of sitar playing, Shankar has made her mark internationally as a performer and as a composer. An instinct for musical collaboration and crossing musical boundaries has resulted in her own distinctive brand of composition, demonstrating the versatility of the sitar, and the art of blending traditional forms with world and folk influenced music. Music includes: Anoushka Shankar, Nitin Sawhney Traces of you feat. Norah Jones, vocal Anoushka Shankar, sitar Tanmoy Bose, tabla Manu Delago, glockenspiel Nitin Sawhney, guitars, percussion, ukulele and programming Raga Manj Khamaj (excerpt) Kenui Ota, bass and treble tanpura Red Sun Bikram Ghosh and Tanmoy Bose, vocals Jesse Charnow, drums Bikram Ghosh, percussion Ajay Prasanna, bansuri Kevin Cooper, bass Anoushka Shankar, keyboards Sukanya Shankar, tanpura. Donald Macleod is in conversation with composer and sitar player Anoushka Shankar. |
2016 | 02 | Sound Frontiers: Gwilym Simcock | 20161004 | As part of Radio 3 live at Southbank Centre, London, Donald Macleod speaks to five members of a new generation of British composers about their work. Featuring music by Anoushka Shankar, Gwilym Simcock, Helen Grime, Anna Meredith and Daniel Kidane. Donald's joined today by composer and jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock (b 1981). Primarily a jazz artist, his ability to combine the art of improvisation with formalised structure has enabled him to straddle jazz and classical spheres in his compositions. His influences are equally wide ranging, from jazz legends including Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea and Pat Metheny, to classical composers including Maurice Ravel, B退la Bart k and Mark-Anthony Turnage. Music includes: Those Are The Good Days Gwilym Simcock, piano Gwilym Simcock & Mike Walker It Could Have Been A Simple Goodbye The Impossible Gentlemen A Kind of Red Delta Saxophone Quartet. Donald Macleod is in conversation with composer and jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock. |
2016 | 03 | Sound Frontier: Helen Grime | 20161005 | As part of Radio 3 live at Southbank Centre, London, Donald Macleod speaks to five members of a new generation of British composers about their work. Featuring music by Anoushka Shankar, Gwilym Simcock, Helen Grime, Anna Meredith and Daniel Kidane. Today Donald's talking to the young British composer Helen Grime (b 1981). Acclaimed at an early age, and championed by Oliver Knussen, who featured himself last week on Composer of the Week and other influential figures, among them Pierre Boulez, Helen has already amassed a body of works written for leading orchestras both in Britain and abroad. Appointed Associate composer of the Halle in 2011, this year sees her take up a new challenge as Composer in Residence at Wigmore Hall in London. Music includes: Oboe Quartet The Berlin Oboe Quartet Virga Halle, Mark Elder, conductor Near Midnight Mark Elder, conductor. Donald is in conversation with young British composer Helen Grime. |
2016 | 04 | Sound Frontiers: Anna Meredith | 20161006 | As part of Radio 3 live at Southbank Centre, London, Donald Macleod speaks to five members of a new generation of British composers about their work. Featuring music by Anoushka Shankar, Gwilym Simcock, Helen Grime, Anna Meredith and Daniel Kidane. Today Donald is in conversation with composer Anna Meredith (b 1978). Classically trained, Anna writes, produces and performs acoustic and electronic music. Her sound is unique, naturally straddling the diverse worlds of contemporary classical, art pop, electronica and experimental rock. Whether it's writing for the Proms or for an art installation or a flashmob on the M6, or making a bassoon into a rock god, her music consistently defies categorisation. Music includes: Nautilus Anna Meredith (electronics, clarinet, vocals) Gemma Kos (cello) Jack Ross (guitar, vocals) Sam Wilso (drums, xylophone, vocals) Fin like a flower Anna Meredith (electronics) Lucy Wakeford (harp) Michael Chance (counter-tenor) Smatter hauler Auroa Orchestra Nicholas Collon (conductor) Hands free National Orchestra of Great Britain Barchan Donal Bannister (trombone) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Andrew Gourlay (conductor) Blackfriars Oliver Coates (cello) Vapours Jack Ross (guitar) Sam Wilson (drums) Gemma Kost (cello). Donald Macleod hears from Anna Meredith, who writes and produces electronic music. |
2016 | 05 LAST | Sound Frontiers: Daniel Kidane | 20161007 | As part of Radio 3 live at Southbank Centre, London, Donald Macleod speaks to five members of a new generation of British composers about their work. Featuring music by Anoushka Shankar, Gwilym Simcock, Helen Grime, Anna Meredith and Daniel Kidane. Today Donald is in conversation with Daniel Kidane (b 1986). Currently undertaking a doctoral degree under Julian Anderson at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Daniel is a contributor to the LSO's creative collective Soundhub. The broad scope of his soundworld spans works for large orchestras, chamber groups in a range of different combinations, in particular establishing close relationships with Riot Ensemble, the Fournier Piano Trio, the harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, and Manchester Camerata. music includes: Sirens BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Andrew Gourlay, conductor Tourbillon Michaela Petri, recorder Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord. Donald Macleod is in conversation with young British composer Daniel Kidane. |