BBC Radio: Rachel Podger Interview

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Uploaded by on Aug 1, 2009

Violin virtuosa and period performance conductor Rachel Podger talks to BBC's Ritula Shah about period performance and the Baroque violin. She demonstrates by playing her own violin in the studio!

Topics discussed:
- the differences between modern and Baroque violins (look and sound)
- the challenges and methods of conducting the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - while playing lead violin
- Austrian and Bohemian Baroque music

Musical excerpt from:
- Fantasie for solo violin, composed by Georg Philipp Telemann

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  • Yeah, she's great!

  • Wow

  • Yes, and I love her Mozart too!

  • very interesting, charming, and funny! her recording of the bach sonatas and partitas is sublime!

  • Yes she's quite fantastic and offers many fascinating insights about the music she plays! I LOVE how she describes period performance and the Baroque violin...

  • Inspiring!

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