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Violinist Davina Clarke with music to make you smile

Davina Clarke reveals familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light, from John Dowland’s Flow my tears to Barber’s Violin Concerto.

As a teenager violinist Davina Clarke fell in love with choral music and today she serves up several choral treats, including Lotti’s Crucifixus, Brahms’s Geistliches Lied and William Harris’s Faire is the heaven.

She’s also thrilled by a live recording of Hector Berlioz’s Overture ‘Le Corsaire’ and enjoys violinist Joshua Bell’s polished yet exhilarating playing in a miniature by Fritz Kreisler.

Plus, her insights into obbligato textures, where a melodic part accompanies a solo line, in music by JS Bach and Handel.

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

A Tandem Production for ѿý Radio 3

1 hour, 56 minutes

Music Played

  • John Dowland

    Flow my tears

    Performer: Jacob Heringman. Singer: Barbara Bonney.
    • DECCA.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique' (II. Allegro con grazia)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER.
  • Antonio Lotti

    Crucifixus a 8

    Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • DECCA.
  • Samuel Barber

    Violin Concerto (I. Allegro)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bramwell Tovey.
    • ONYX.
  • Trad.

    Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

    Performer: Baptiste Trotignon. Music Arranger: Baptiste Trotignon. Singer: Reginald Mobley.
    • ALPHA CLASSICS.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Le Corsaire (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Beecham.
    • SOMM.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Stummer Seufzer, stille Klagen (Cantata BWV199)

    Singer: Sabine Devieilhe. Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Raphaël Pichon.
    • ERATO.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Tambourin Chinois Op.3

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Paul Coker.
    • DECCA.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Geistliches Lied

    Music Arranger: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SDG.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Gigue in G major, K. 574

    Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Jacob Collier

    Don't you worry 'bout a thing

    • SELF-RELEASED.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 9 in D minor (III. Adagio molto e cantabile)

    Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • DG ARCHIV.
  • Fred Astaire

    Cheek To Cheek

    • LEGACY.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Sweet Stillness

    Performer: Davina Clarke. Singer: Mary Bevan. Ensemble: Davina Clarke Ensemble.
    • VOCES8 RECORDS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043 (III. Allegro)

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Bojan Čičić. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • CHANNEL.
  • William Henry Harris

    Faire is the heaven

    Ensemble: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.

Broadcast

  • Sat 4 Nov 2023 13:00

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