蜜芽传媒

Nina Sosanya and Graeme Hawley give us a series of readings considering the way music is created, with insights from a range of composers. Hector Berlioz recalls the day his father finally gave him permission to study music in Paris, the Master of the King鈥檚 Music, Errollyn Wallen learns how to motivate musicians performing her works and pianist Sir Stephen Hough remembers the time he first laid eyes on a piano. Whilst poems by Wendy Cope consider experimentalism and traditionalism in music. All set alongside compositions by Puccini, Bach, Nadia Boulanger, Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita and Benjamin Britten.

You can hear all of the music making from this year's 蜜芽传媒 Proms on 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3 and 蜜芽传媒 Sounds which opens with a world premiere from Errollyn Wallen on Fri July 18th

Producer in Salford: Joseph Zubier

Readings:
Musica Dei donum by Anonymous
Music by Walter de la Mare
The Study of Counterpoint: Gradus ad Parnassum [excerpt] by Johann Joseph Fux, trans. Alfred Mann
The Traditionalist by Wendy Cope
The Radical by Wendy Cope
Interviews [excerpt] by Pierre Boulez, trans. Joseph Zubier
Music, when soft voices die (To-) by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode on St Cecilia鈥檚 Day [excerpt] by Alexander Pope
Enough: 'Scenes from Childhood' [excerpt] by Stephen Hough
Essex Rag by Lavinia Greenlaw
Far From the Madding Crowd [excerpt] by Thomas Hardy
Memoires [excerpt] by Hector Berlioz, trans. David Cairns
The Composer by W.H. Auden
Transit by Rita Dove
Becoming a Composer [excerpt] by Errollyn Wallen
At a Solemn Music by John Milton