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Soprano Golda Schultz with musical conversations

Soprano Golda Schultz reveals familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light, from a couple’s collaboration to a powerful story.

Golda Schultz is a soprano who finds conversations in music - between performers, composers and listeners, and today she invites you to explore some of her favourite tracks with her. There’s virtuosity in many forms - from Mozart, to Bobby McFerrin and Astor Piazzolla, and Golda explains how you achieve tension through harmonic changes with the help of composer Florence Price.

She also reveals the powerful musical storytelling in Rebecca Clarke’s song The Seal Man, and admires the constantly moving bassline played by Charles Mingus in Duke Ellington’s Caravan.

Plus, Golda is rendered speechless by the end of Richard Strauss’ opera Daphne…

A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.

A Tandem Production for ѿý Radio 3

Photo credit: Vittorio Greco

1 hour, 56 minutes

Music Played

  • Rebecca Clarke

    The Seal Man

    Performer: Golda Schultz. Performer: Jonathan Ware.
    • ALPHA.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio No.5 in D major (I. Allegro vivace e con brio)

    Ensemble: Beethoven Trio Bonn.
    • AVI-MUSIC.
  • Florence Price

    Symphony No.1 in E minor (IV. Finale. Presto)

    Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • DG.
  • Etta James

    At Last

    • MCA RECORDS.
  • Nadia Boulanger

    Cantique

    Performer: Joseph Beadle. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Luonnotar

    Singer: Soile Isokoski. Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leif Segerstam.
    • ONDINE.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song without words in D major

    Performer: Jacqueline du Pré. Performer: Gerald Moore.
    • WARNER.
  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    Bachianas Brasileiras No. 6 for flute and bassoon (I. Aria (Choro): Largo)

    Performer: Sato Moughalian. Performer: Alexandre Silvério.
    • BIS.
  • Clara Schumann

    Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 20 (extract)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • DECCA.
  • Richard Strauss

    Daphne's Verwandlung (Daphne, Op. 82)

    Singer: Lucia Popp. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • WARNER.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No.1 in B flat major, K 207

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • DG.
  • Bobby McFerrin

    Blackbird

    • NONESUCH.
  • Astor Piazzolla & The Swingle Singers

    Libertango

    • TROVA.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    African Suite Op. 35 (III. Valse)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • DECCA.
  • Franz Schubert

    Du bist die Ruh, Op. 59/3, D. 776

    Music Arranger: Xandi van Dijk. Ensemble: Signum Quartett.
    • PENTATONE.
  • Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus & Max Roach

    Caravan

    • BLUE NOTE.
  • John Field

    Nocturne no.12 in G

    Performer: Joanna Leach.
    • ATHENE.

Broadcast

  • Sat 7 Oct 2023 13:00

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