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Part 11: Andrea Baker

Mezzo-soprano Andrea Baker shares the intriguing connections between six musical choices. This week includes music by Monteverdi, pianist Hazel Scott and Adolphus Hailstork.

Mezzo-soprano Andrea Baker shares the intriguing connections between six of her musical choices. This episode opens with the remarkable trailblazer pianist Hazel Scott and Andrea鈥檚 connections range between the clarinet music of Luis Spohr, Mahler鈥檚 setting of poetry in his second symphony and a musical discovery of composer Adolphus Hailstork, a former pupil of Nadia Boulanger.

A new voice to 麻豆社 Radio 3, Andrea Baker is an American-born Scottish mezzo-soprano and creator of Sing Sistah Sing! An award-winning one woman show celebrating the African American female voice.

Image of Andrea Baker 漏 Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

30 minutes

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Mon 24 May 2021 00:00
麻豆社 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Trad.

    Dark Eyes

    Performer: Hazel Scott. Music Arranger: Hazel Scott.
    • Her Second Album of Piano Solos with Drums Acc..
    • Shellac Revival.

  • Louis Spohr

    Clarinet Concerto No 1 in C minor Op 26 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Maria du Toit. Orchestra: Cape Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Arjan Tien.
    • Spohr: Complete Clarinet Concertos.
    • Brilliant Classics.

  • Adolphus Hailstork

    String Quartet No. 2, "Variations on Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"

    Ensemble: Ambrosia Quartet.
    • Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.
    • Albany.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Disprezzata Regina (L'incoronazione di Poppea)

    Performer: Janet Baker. Music Arranger: Raymond Leppard. Orchestra: Sadler鈥檚 Wells Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Raymond Leppard.
    • Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione Di Poppea.
    • Chandos.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 2 (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Randall Thompson

    The Road Not Taken (Frostiana)

    Author: Robert Frost. Choir: Landesjungenchor Saschen. Orchestra: Jungensinfonieorchester Liepzig. Conductor: Ron-Dirk Entleutner.
    • Samuel Barber: The Lovers & Randall Thompson: Frostiana.
    • Rondeau.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Mon 24 May 2021 00:00
    麻豆社 Radio 3