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Rachael Lander and Elizabeth Watts

Music Matters Harmony in Neurodiversity

Elizabeth Watts sits down with musicians who have their own stories to tell about how neurodivergence affects their personal and professional lives.

Neurodivergence is more prevalent among musicians than the general population. Soprano Elizabeth Watts, who has ADHD, explores how neurodiversity influences the lives and creativity of fellow musicians. She is joined by cellist Rachael Lander, who also has ADHD, for a candid conversation about how their unique ways of thinking shape their experiences in music and life. Along the way, they share meaningful pieces that reflect their personal journeys.

Rachael shares several recordings where the composers or performers behaved in ways that resonate with her and the way her brain works. She also brings pieces that remind her of pivotal moments in her experience as an ADHD musician. Elizabeth reflects on two recordings where memorisation and repetition helped her in different ways.

Adding a scientific lens to the discussion, Professor Catherine Loveday offers explanations and insights into the relationship between neurodiversity and musical creativity.

A Tandem Production for 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Erik Satie

    Gnossiene No 1

    Performer: Pascal Rog茅.
    • Decca.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 8 (1st mvt, 'Veni, creator spiritus'[Come, creator spirit]: excerpt)

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Choir: MDR Leipzig Radio Chorus. Choir: Knaben des Staats- und Domchors Berlin. Singer: Erika Sunneg氓rdh. Singer: Susan Bullock. Singer: Lilli Paasikivi. Singer: Nathalie Stutzmann. Singer: Johan Botha. Singer: David Wilson鈥怞ohnson. Singer: John Relyea.
    • BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER.

  • Gottfried Heinrich St枚lzel

    Bist du bei mir arr for voice & orch (from the notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach)

    Music Arranger: Trevor Connah. Singer: Janet Baker. Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • WARNER.

  • Arvo P盲rt

    Fratres (Brothers): excerpt

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: Keith Jarrett.
    • ECM.

  • Ruth Crawford Seeger

    Andante for Strings

    Conductor: Oliver Knussen. Ensemble: Sch枚nberg Ensemble.
    • DG.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique (1st mvt, 'R锚veries - Passions': excerpt)

    Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • LSO Live.

  • Richard Blackford

    Songs of Nadia Anjuman (No 1, 'Turmoil')

    Singer: Elizabeth Watts. Conductor: Elizabeth Watts. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia.
    • NIMBUS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue No 9 in E major (The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2)

    Performer: Glenn Gould.
    • SONY.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Passacaglia

    Composer: Johan Halvorsen. Performer: Patrick Savage. Performer: Rachael Lander.
    • Bucks Music.

  • Franz Schubert

    Sonata in A Major, D. 574: II. Scherzo

    Performer: Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux. Performer: Joseph Havlat.
    • Schubert.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 5.

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