Pianist, composer and technologist Zubin Kanga with sounds synthesised and spectral
Zubin Kanga reveals familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light, from Miles Davis playing Gershwin to Schubert鈥檚 鈥楧eath and the Maiden鈥� quartet.
Zubin Kanga is a pianist, composer and technologist who is interested in how musical performers can interact with new technologies. Some of his choices reflect this, with Bach played on the synthesiser by Wendy Carlos, a live synthesiser improvisation by Suzanne Ciani, and a piece by Zubin that takes some of his recordings and turns them into something new using Artificial Intelligence.
There's also plenty of other music including a prelude by Debussy where the pianist demonstrates incredible fluid technique, motets by WIlliam Byrd, and a movement by Berlioz where the composer plays with the orchestra like it鈥檚 a keyboard instrument.
Plus, a piece where Miles Davis sings on his trumpet.
A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.
A Tandem Production for 麻豆社 Radio 3
Photo credit: Raphael Neal
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No.3 BWV 1048 (III. Allegro)
Performer: Wendy Carlos.- COLUMBIA MASTERWORKS.
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William Byrd
Rorate coeli
Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.- KINGS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE.
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William Byrd
Justorum animae
Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.- KINGS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE.
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William Byrd
Civitas Sancti Tui
Choir: Ensemble of King's College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.- KINGS COLLEGE.
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Igor Stravinsky
Concerto in E flat Major "Dumbarton Oaks" (I. Tempo giusto)
Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.- DG.
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Maurice Ravel
Pantomime (Daphnis et Chlo茅, M. 57, Part 3)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.- DG.
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Chick Corea
Armando's Rhumba
- POLYDOR.
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Franz Schubert
String Quartet No. 14 in D minor 'Death and the Maiden' (II. Andante con moto)
Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.- HYPERION.
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Claude Debussy
Feuilles mortes (Preludes, Book 2)
Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.- DG.
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Zubin Kanga
Metamemory (extract)
- NONCLASSICAL.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Recordare (Requiem in D minor, K. 626)
Performer: Barbara Bonney. Performer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Hans Peter Blochwitz. Performer: Willard White. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- PHILIPS.
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Olivier Messiaen
Quartet for the End of Time (VIII. "Louange 脿 l'Immortalit茅 de J茅sus")
Ensemble: Fibonacci Sequence.- DEUX-ELLES.
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Hector Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique (I. Reveries - Passions)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.- LSO LIVE.
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Miles Davis Band
It Ain't Necessarily So (Porgy and Bess)
- COLUMBIA.
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Kaija Saariaho
"J'esp猫re encore, mon Dieu" (L'Amour de loin, Act 5)
Singer: Ekaterina Lekhina. Choir: Berlin Radio Choir. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Kent Nagano.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Francesco Cavalli
Canzon in 3 parts (Musiche sacre concernenti messa)
Ensemble: London Baroque.- BIS.
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Suzanne Ciani
Concert at WBAI Free Music Store (excerpt)
- FINDERS KEEPERS RECORDS.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rondo alla turca from piano sonata No. 11 in A K. 331 (Turkish Rondo)
Performer: Martynas. Ensemble: RaVen Quartet.
Broadcast
- Sat 14 Oct 2023 13:00麻豆社 Radio 3
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