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Max Reinhardt

Max Reinhardt presents music direct from the dancefloors of Mexico and Botswana, with a historic recording of Beethoven's late string quartets and percussion for a zen garden.

Max presents music direct from the dancefloors of Mexico and Botswana. Featuring Don Tosti, the king of the pachuco mambo, a Mexican-American dance craze of the 1930s that combines boogie woogie and rumba, while guitarist Molefe Lekgetho plays in a style unique to Botswana; his hand reaches up and over the fretboard instead of coming from underneath, creating a lavish dancing pattern with just a bass string and 4 treble strings.

Also in the show is Ramon Humet, a Catalan composer who shows his Japanese influences in the chamber work Four Zen Gardens, a suitably poised and elegant series of bells, bamboo and gongs for three percussionists. Plus, a track off Yasmine Hamdan's upcoming remix album, and a historic recording at The Library of Congress of one of Beethoven's late string quartets.

Produced by Rebecca Gaskell for Reduced Listening.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 16 May 201823:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Don Tosti y su Conjunto

    Mambo Del Pachuco

    • Very Tasty Pachuco Mambo.
    • PINCHE DISCOS.

  • Thomas Bartlett & Nico Muhly

    Dominic

    • Peter Pears: Balinese Ceremonial Music.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Suzanna Owiyo

    Idhewakamande

    • My Roots.
    • Kirkelig Kulturverksted.

  • شمسی اشتری

    Do Parandeh

    • RANGARANG. PRE-REVOLUTIONARY IRANIAN POP.
    • Vampisoul Records.

  • Gerd Luft

    Prima Ballerina

    Ensemble: Swing Bach Ensemble.
    • Bach Jazz.
    • Harmonic.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135: II. Vivace

    Ensemble: Budapest String Quartet.
    • Budapest String Quartet: Beethoven Late Quartets.
    • Bridge Records.

  • Beatriz Acevedo

    To The Bone

  • Ramón Humet

    Four Zen Gardens - III

    Conductor: Nicholas Collon. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta.
    • Niwa.
    • Neu Records.

  • Ramón Humet

    Four Zen Gardens - Interlude

    Conductor: Nicholas Collon. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta.
    • Niwa.
    • Neu Records.

  • Ramón Humet

    Four Zen Gardens - IV

    Conductor: Nicholas Collon. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta.
    • Niwa.
    • Neu Records.

  • Iva Bittová & Vladimír Václave

    Sto Let

    • Bile inferno.

  • Squares and Triangles

    Right Angles

    • Lilt.
    • Kiosk 7.

  • Oneohtrix Point Never

    Black Snow

    • Age Of.
    • Warp Records.

  • Western

    Machikilani (Security Guard)

    • I'm Not Here To Hunt Rabbits.
    • Piranha.

  • Norbert Rodenkirchen, Robbie Lee & James Ilgenfritz

    Society of the First Snowfall

    • Opalescence.

  • The Everly Brothers

    Long Time Gone

    • Songs Our Daddy Taught Us.
    • Cadence.

  • Gazelle Twin

    Hobby Horse

    • Pastoral.
    • Anti-Ghost Moon Ray.

  • CHAINES

    MARY

    • The King.
    • Slip.

  • Seán Mac Erlaine

    En Fetelle Mai (feat. Jan Bang, Eivind Aarset & Sadhbh Ní Dhálaigh)

    • Music for Empty Ears.
    • Ergodos.

  • Yasmine Hamdan

    Balad by Olga Kouklaki

    • Jamilat Reprise.
    • Crammed Discs.

  • Radio String Quartet

    Breathe

    • In Between Silence.
    • Jazzland Recordings.

Broadcast

  • Wed 16 May 201823:00
    BBC Radio 3

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