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Session Report: Nemanja Radulović on the sunny side of Bach

2024-11-22T09:45:00

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Violinist Nemanja Radulović speaks to Tom Stewart about his no-preconceptions approach to arranging and recording some of Bach’s concertos and shorter pieces, and finding just the right balance of novelty and reverence

Serbian violinist Nemanja Radulović wants people to think again about Bach. ‘We’re all somehow afraid of his music because it’s so complex,’ he tells me with a smile, his trademark curls filling my computer screen. ‘I personally feel that it’s filled with humour. You want to be respectful, of course, but we should remember that Bach was a human being, too.’…

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