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Part 8: Uchenna Ngwe

Oboist and researcher Uchenna Ngwe charts a course through music both familiar and unfamiliar, with works by Dittersdorf, Britten, Miles Davis, Elgar, Bantock and Hannah Kendall.

Oboist and researcher Uchenna Ngwe charts a course through music both familiar and unfamiliar, with works by Dittersdorf, Britten, Miles Davis, Elgar, Bantock and Hannah Kendall. She explores a plethora of mysterious winged figures - from fleeting spirits to ravens and doves - as well as investigating a curious case of Lycian peasants transformed symphonically into frogs...

A new voice to BBC Radio 3, Uchenna Ngwe is a freelance oboist and researcher from Tottenham, North London. She’s performed with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, St Paul’s Sinfonia and KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra among others - and is also the artistic director of Decus Ensemble, a group dedicated to exploring lesser-known classical works.

30 minutes

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Mon 4 Jan 202100:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Sea-slumber Song (Sea Pictures)

    Singer: Janet Baker. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.

  • Miles Davis

    Will o' the wisp (Sketches of Spain)

  • Hannah Kendall

    A Winged Spirit

    Performer: Hyeyoon Park. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Now forty dayes are fullie gone (Noye's Fludde)

    Singer: Owen Brannigan. Orchestra: English Opera Group. Conductor: Norman Del Mar.

  • Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

    Symphony in A major (The Transformation of the Lycian Peasants into Frogs)

    Orchestra: Cantilena. Conductor: Adrian Shepherd.

  • Granville Bantock

    The Cloisters At Midnight

    Performer: Maria Marchant.

Broadcast

  • Mon 4 Jan 202100:00
    BBC Radio 3