The Sally Beamish Interview

A land without music?

Today’s episode is a full length interview with a British composer whose works include symphonies, concertos and chamber pieces, but who also looks beyond the classical tradition to Celtic music and jazz. Indeed, some of those concertos feature fairly unusual solo instruments including accordion, saxophone & clàrsach.

In 2020 she composed April for Sound World’s lockdown album Reflections and, during the same period, she reached a rather different audience through her trio’s Thursday evening doorstep performances of jazz standards and pop classics.

Written and presented by Julian Leeks Produced by Sound World

Music

April by Sally Beamish (performed by Mary Barrett, Tomáš Klement and Harriet Riley). Listen on Apple Music or Spotify

In The Steps of Apollo by Julian Leeks (performed by Zelkova String Quartet). Listen here.

Beehive by Julian Leeks (Note Performer demo version recorded for our sponsors)

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