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Get to know a selection of music from the inside with a leading musician.

Inside Music: Fiddle singer and composer Nancy Kerr with creative connections

Fiddle singer and composer Nancy Kerr with creative connections

BBC Radio 3 - Inside Music, Fiddle singer and composer Nancy Kerr with creative connections

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

Nancy Kerr opens up a selection of classical music from a folk musician’s point of view - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light.

Nancy Kerr is a multi-award-winning fiddle singer and songwriter. As a musician, she brings her own individual take to traditional folk material and as a writer she combines folk mythology with tales of 21st century life. 

Today, Nancy chooses pieces that highlight the lines of connection between some wildly different musical styles, including Bartok dances played first by the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and then the Romani group Taraf De Haïdouks. There’s also Gaelic music inspired by masters of the Italian baroque, and a song by Vaughan Williams that goes back to its earthy roots. 

Plus romantic pieces for violin and piano by Dvorak, an orchestral favourite by Gustav Holst and some brain-taxing miniatures by JS Bach.

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

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3.

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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