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Composer of the Week

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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Five under 40

Composer of the Week: Five under 40: Episode 1: Sound Frontiers: Anoushka Shankar

Sound Frontiers: Anoushka Shankar

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Episode 1: Sound Frontiers: Anoushka Shankar

Five under 40

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Five under 40, Sound Frontiers: Anoushka Shankar

Donald Macleod is in conversation with composer and sitar player Anoushka Shankar.

Donald Macleod is in conversation with composer and sitar player Anoushka Shankar. With Traces of You, Raga Manj Khamaj and Red Sun.

As part of Radio 3 live at Southbank Centre, London, Donald Macleod speaks to five members of a new generation of British composers about their work. Featuring music by Anoushka Shankar, Gwilym Simcock, Helen Grime, Anna Meredith and Daniel Kidane. 

Donald's first guest this week is composer and sitar player Anoushka Shankar (1981-). Trained from the age of 9 by her father Ravi Shankar in the classical style of sitar playing, Shankar has made her mark internationally as a performer and as a composer. An instinct for musical collaboration and crossing musical boundaries has resulted in her own distinctive brand of composition, demonstrating the versatility of the sitar, and the art of blending traditional forms with world and folk influenced music. 
Music includes: 

Anoushka Shankar, Nitin Sawhney
Traces of you
feat. Norah Jones, vocal 
Anoushka Shankar, sitar
Tanmoy Bose, tabla 
Manu Delago, glockenspiel
Nitin Sawhney, guitars, percussion, ukulele and programming 

Anoushka Shankar
Raga Manj Khamaj (excerpt) 
Anoushka Shankar, sitar
Tanmoy Bose, tabla 
Kenui Ota, bass and treble tanpura

Anoushka Shankar 
Red Sun
Bikram Ghosh and Tanmoy Bose, vocals 
Jesse Charnow, drums
Bikram Ghosh, percussion 
Ajay Prasanna, bansuri 
Kevin Cooper, bass 
Anoushka Shankar, keyboards 
Sukanya Shankar, tanpura.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Donald Macleod meets five members of a new generation of British composers

Donald Macleod meets five members of a new generation of British composers to learn about their work

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