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The
Charles Hazlewood Show (BBC Radio 2)
Charles explores the blues through Benjamin Britten's 'Frank Bridge
Variations' and hammond organ virtuoso Brian Auger's, 'Ellis Island'
for The Charles Hazlewood Show on BBC Radio 2 (broadcast 12.12.2007) |
Discovering
Music (BBC Radio 3)
Charles unpicks Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No.1 with his chamber
orchestra Excellent Device! on Radio 3's 'Discovering Music'. (broadcast
07.05.2007) |
When
Charlie Met Wyclef (BBC Radio 2)
Charles went to New York to meet one of his heroes, Hip Hop artist
Wyclef Jean. Here is an extract of Charles talking and jamming with
Wyclef and Jerry Wonder. |
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Charles' R3 broadcasts are available on the
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Read
an interview with Charles about the Discovering Music
series here.
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A D I O
'BBCTV's
pin-up conductor and Radio 3's resident interpretative guru.' Daily
Telegraph
Charles maintains a central position in Radio 3's output, conducting and
presenting Discovering Music (Sunday afternoons, 5pm),
where he uses his unique hands-on approach to reveal the inner workings
of great orchestral music, with the BBC orchestras and his own two bands
Excellent Device! and Army of Generals.
'Charles Hazlewood's Discovering Music (is) terrific.' The
Observer
Charles hosted his own Radio 2 show for several years from his Somerset
farm. Winner of 3 Sony Awards, these sessions were a great opportunity
for him to share his extraordinarily diverse musical tastes: jamming with
The Guillemots, banging on about the virtues of Mozart wind serenades,
deconstructing Radiohead or explaining fugue in the context of a Prodigy
track.
Upcoming Projects for BBC Radio 2
Charles in jamming sessions & general mayhem with Mick Jones (The
Clash, Big Audio Dynamite), and a new run of the triple Sony Award-winning
Charles Hazlewood Show.
A
new run of the triple Sony Award Winning Charles Hazlewood Show begins
on Thursday 22 September 2011.
'Charles
Hazlewood has managed to bring classical music to the masses without the
use of low-cut tops, mediaeval costumes or silly hairstyles. His talents
as a conductor are prolific but, as any fan of this multi-Sony-Award-winning
series will know, his skills as an orator are just as effective. Evocative
combinations of words tumble from his lips without the use of a script,
as he seamlessly shapeshifts from classical to indie to folk. The atmosphere
is ethereal hedonism. A work by Bach can segue into a song by Kate Bush
before exploding into a piece of dubstep. Hazlewood loves all music and,
thankfully, he is happy to share his enthusiasm' Radio
Times
'How do The Prodigy connect to Bach? Charles Hazlewood offers a brilliantly
nerdy dissection of iconic pop tracks and their musical cross-sections'
Guardian
'What do Mozart & Abba have in common? The answers are unveiled
in this series from conductor Charles Hazlewood who has done so much to
dissolve musical barriers' Sunday Times
'Our
eponymous hero continues his quest to play classical and popular, from
Messiaen to Killing Joke and Stravinsky to Steve Harley, connecting his
reliably interesting and diverse selections almost spuriously as he goes.'
Time Out
'What Heston Blumenthal is to food, Charles Hazlewood is to music'.
The Guardian
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