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Sound of Cinema: Chevalier and cinema's ear on the past

Chevalier and cinema's ear on the past

BBC Radio 3 - Sound of Cinema, Chevalier and cinema's ear on the past

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen.

Jordan Peele film composer Michael Abels talks Chevalier. Plus discover the secrets behind scoring historical epics like Master and Commander and Pirates of the Caribbean.

Jordan Peele films 'Get Out,' 'Us,' and 'Nope' composer Michael Abels discusses his latest project ‘Chevalier’, the story of the real life Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the illegitimate son of an enslaved African and a French plantation owner, who rises to heights in French society as a composer and master swordsman. Meanwhile Matthew explores music from Master and Commander, Pirates of the Caribbean, Jane Austen's Emma and asks, how do film composers create a soundtrack to the past?

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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