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Recorder player and violinist Charlotte Barbour-Condini on reversing the version

Charlotte Barbour-Condini opens up a selection of music from her point of view as a recorder player and violinist - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light.

Charlotte Barbour-Condini won the woodwind final of BBC Young Musician in 2012 playing the recorder She’s also an accomplished violinist, a member of Chineke! and a founding member of the ensemble Parandrus.

Today, from a makeshift studio in her corridor, Charlotte reveals how Chopin can really work on a harpsichord, how Scarlatti’s harpsichord sonatas are transformed on a grand piano, and how Bach’s Goldberg Variations played by a recorder quintet sound perfectly balanced - the effect being like a kind of multiplayer organ.

She also explores how a precise musical score can often come across as being completely improvised, and plays an 80-year-old recording that’s inspirational to her.

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

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3

1 hour, 56 minutes

Last on

Sat 24 Oct 202013:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Noa

    Little Lovin' (Two Part Invention No. 4)

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach. Performer: Noa. Performer: Gil Dor.
    • NAIVE.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: He gave them hailstones for rain

    Choir: The Sixteen. Orchestra: Orchestra of The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.

  • Luca Marenzio

    Solo e pensoso

    Ensemble: Huelgas Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Van Nevel.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Ambrose Campbell

    Yolanda

    Ensemble: Ambrose Campbell.
    • HONEST JON'S RECORDS.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G minor, "La Notte", RV 439

    Performer: Sébastien Marq. Ensemble: Ensemble Matheus. Conductor: Jean‐Christophe Spinosi.
    • NAIVE.

  • Cecilia McDowall

    3 Latin Motets: No. 2 Ave Maria

    Choir: Phoenix Chorale. Conductor: Charles Bruffy.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Paolo da Firenze

    Istampita instrumentale: Cosa non è

    Ensemble: Mala Punica. Conductor: Pedro Memelsdorff.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Ballade in A minor, Op. 33

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Grant Llewellyn.
    • ARGO.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Mazurka No. 34 in C major, Op. 56 No. 2

    Performer: Wanda Landowska.
    • NAXOS.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard Sonata K213 in D minor

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • BIS.

  • Sergej Newski

    Alles

    Performer: Jakob Diehl. Ensemble: Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble. Conductor: Fedor Lednev.
    • FANCYMUSIC.

  • Honoré d'Ambruys

    Le doux silence de nos bois

    Singer: Marc Mauillon. Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28

    Performer: Renée Chemet. Performer: Harold Craxton.
    • HMV.

  • Stewart Goodyear

    Callaloo (Panorama)

    Performer: Stewart Goodyear. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Wayne Marshall.
    • ORCHID CLASSICS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria

    Ensemble: Seldom Sene.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.

Broadcast

  • Sat 24 Oct 202013:00
    BBC Radio 3

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