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

Inside Music: Cellist Abel Selaocoe with a playlist of improvisation and virtuosity

Cellist Abel Selaocoe with a playlist of improvisation and virtuosity

BBC Radio 3 - Inside Music, Cellist Abel Selaocoe with a playlist of improvisation and virtuosity

Hear cellist Abel Selaocoe open up a colourful selection of music from the inside.

Cellist Abel Selaocoe reveals familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light, from dramatic music for Klezmer clarinet to a boat on a sea conjured up in orchestral technicolour.

Abel Selaocoe is a unique musician. His training is classical, while his South African roots constantly inspire him to push at the boundaries of what he and his cello can do together. 

Abel’s musical selection is as far ranging as you might expect. He explores pulsating rhythms and fragments of melody in a Sibelius symphony and describes how Maurice Ravel can conjure up the image of a boat on the sea through magical orchestral effects. And he can’t resist the collaboration of mandolin and double bass, not to mention the peculiar but riveting sound of someone singing into a tuba.

Plus, the dramatic sounds of Klezmer clarinet combined with a string quartet.

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

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3

Photo credit: Mlungisi

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