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Inside Music: Lute player Elizabeth Kenny explores timeless music

Lute player Elizabeth Kenny explores timeless music

BBC Radio 3 - Inside Music, Lute player Elizabeth Kenny explores timeless music

Hear a leading musician open up a colourful selection of music from the inside.

Elizabeth Kenny opens up a selection of classical music from a lute player’s point of view - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light.

As one of the world’s leading lute and theorbo players, Elizabeth Kenny brings old musical manuscripts to sparkling life both as a soloist and in ensembles like Phantasm and her own Theatre of the Ayre. 

Liz’s choice of music today includes a symphony by Mahler that’s at the opposite end of the musical scale from the sound of a solo lute, a ragtime number that has some Verdi buried at its heart, and a wild seascape in music painted by Ethel Smyth.

She also plays a set of variations that reveal pianist Friedrich Gulda’s very personal take on a song by The Doors. 

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

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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.

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