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Violinist Rachel Podger: Music from every angle

2024-07-18T07:05:00

B066916RACPOD38 2022 Broadway Studios

The celebrated British violinist and Baroque and Classical specialist Rachel Podger chats with Tom Stewart about her new guest director role, her approach to teaching Baroque playing and striving to create an exciting musical experience for her audiences

Inside Rachel Podger’s violin case is a table of keys and their ‘affections’ published by Johann Mattheson, a contemporary of Bach, in 1713. D major, he writes, is ‘sharp and headstrong’, G minor ‘graceful, agreeable, tender’ and B flat major ‘magnificent but also dainty’…

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