Add to Playlist - Hannah French and Neil Brand bring on the musical fireworks

Hannah French and Neil Brand bring on the musical fireworks

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Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye are joined by musicologist Hannah French and composer Neil Brand as they take us from the stables of Versailles to a Shirley MacLaine classic as they add another five tracks to the playlist.

Bhangra specialist DJ Sonny Ji celebrates a joyous track inspired by the children's chant 'Eeny, meeny, miny, moe'.

Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye
Producer Jerome Weatherald

Listen to Hannah French's Radio 3 documentary The Silence of my Pain https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000p6d4

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

Coppélia: Galop Final by Léo Delibes
Overture to Acante et Céphise by Rameau
If They Could See Me Now by Shirley MacLaine
Get Ur Freak On by Missy Elliott
Eena Meena Deeka by Kishore Kumar

Other music in this episode:

Black Sky by The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
And the Swallow by Caroline Shaw
Jubilee Rag by Winifred Atwell
Galloping Home by Denis King
Pygmalion: Overture by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Published on Friday, 24th June 2022.

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