Inside Music

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

Inside Music: Violinist Cathy Thompson with music from the studio and the soul

Violinist Cathy Thompson with music from the studio and the soul

BBC Radio 3 - Inside Music, Violinist Cathy Thompson with music from the studio and the soul

Hear violinist Cathy Thompson open up a colourful selection of music from the inside.

Violinist Cathy Thompson reveals familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light, from Brahms’s enchanting clarinet quintet, to a slowly shifting track, composed and played by Cathy.

Cathy Thompson is a versatile violinist and a composer - a leading session musician who has played with groups ranging from the Medici String Quartet to the New Blood Orchestra. 

Today, Cathy shares her unique experience of recording music from a huge range of genres, including the rising and falling inner string parts that characterise Joni Mitchell’s latest recording of her song ‘Both Sides Now’, to the physically exhausting but exhilarating music of Michael Nyman. 

She also reveals a piece which keeps her moving, and explains why sometimes you have to bring jazz techniques to a Debussy sonata. 

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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