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Start the Week: A musical journey – from the mountains to the multi-storey

A musical journey – from the mountains to the multi-storey

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, A musical journey – from the mountains to the multi-storey

Andrew Marr with Steven Isserlis, Benjamin Appl and Kate Whitley.

Steven Isserlis, Benjamin Appl and Kate Whitley go on a wintry musical journey, with Andrew Marr.

The internationally renowned cellist Steven Isserlis talks to Andrew Marr about his companion guide to The Bach Cello Suites. Isserlis explores why Bach’s Six Suites have become some of the most cherished music, and how Bach takes the audience on a spiritual journey, from joy, through tragedy, to jubilation.

Schubert’s heart-breaking song-cycle Winterreise tells of a young man’s desperate wanderings: the music and the poems creating images of fire and snow, of scalding and frozen tears. The baritone Benjamin Appl, accompanied by James Baillieu, stars in a new BBC film, Winter Journey, filmed in a tower on the snow-covered summit of the Julierpass in south-east Switzerland. An album of the music will be released in February.

The composer and pianist Kate Whitley is also interested in the importance of place in music. But she has taken a different tack, eschewing the often rarefied atmosphere of concert halls, for the concrete heart of city centres. She runs The Multi-Storey Orchestra which performs in car parks around the UK.

Producer: Katy Hickman

Photo copyright: Satoshi Aoyagi

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