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Over the years I have made over 200 appearances
on BBC radio, as performer, presenter and interviewee. BBC Radio
3, 31st October 2009
Written and
presented by Lowri, Hidden Composers told the story
of Mel Bonis and Louise Héritte-Viardot, two remarkable
women who composed remarkable music, yet who remain largely unknown.
The programme was previewed in Classical
Music magazine and the Financial
Times.
BBC Radio 3 28th June
2008
Lowri presented Debussy’s Summer of 1912 on BBC Radio 3 (June 2008). Pianists Roy Howat, Peter Hill and Alasdair Beatson, and musicologist Robert Orledge talked about Debussy’s hectic schedule that very hot summer, composing his ballet Jeux and the second book of Préludes, and his encounter with Stravinsky, who had just completed his new ballet The Rite of Spring. The programme was
highlighted on Pick of the Week on Radio 4, and repeated in July
2009. BBC Radio 4 The second series of Page to Performance was broadcast in the summer of 2008. Three more programmes following the genesis through to the first performance of a classical work; Delius’s Cuckoo (On hearing the first cuckoo in spring), The Man of Tango (Astor Piazzolla’s Concerto for bandoneon and orchestra) and the hugely popular Carmina Burana by Carl Orff. Two of the three programmes were chosen for Pick of the Week. Lowri reviewed the available recordings of the Shostakovich sonata for cello and piano (January 2007). Her preferred performance: Pieter Wispelwey and Dejan Lazic. BBC Radio 4 Lowri presented Page to Performance, two half-hour programmes about Gershwin's I Got Rhythm Variations and Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde (December 2006 / January 2007). The Gershwin was selected for Radio 4's Pick of the Week, and there was a nice preview listing for it in the Daily Telegraph. BBC Radio 3 CD Review: New releases Reviewing recent releases of chamber music on CD, including Steven Isserlis's Brahms sonatas, the Arditti and Casals Quartets, Renaud Capuçon and Nicholas Angelich, and the Nash Ensemble (November 2005). BBC Radio 3 CD Review: In Tune As a guest on Sean Rafferty's popular programme, Lowri reviewed DVDs of Schubert's Trout Quintet (August 2005). BBC Radio 3 CD Review: New releases Reviewing recent releases of string quartets on CD, played by the Emerson, Brodsky and Casals Quartets (April 2005). BBC Radio 3 CD Review: Building a Library Lowri reviewed the available recordings of the Debussy String Quartet (November 2004). Her preferred performance: the Belcea Quartet. BBC Radio 3 CD Review: New releases Reviewing recent releases of chamber music on CD, including the Nash Ensemble and Joan Eric Lluna with the Tokyo Quartet. (June 2004). BBC Radio 3 CD Review: New releases Reviewing recent releases of chamber music on CD. (October 2003). BBC Radio 3 CD Review: Building a Library Lowri reviewed the available recordings of the Walton cello concerto (February 2003). Her preferred performance: the first recording of the work, by dedicatee Gregor Piatigorsky. BBC Radio 3 CD Review: Building a Library Lowri reviewed the available recordings of the Shostakovich cello concerto (September 2002). Her preferred performance: Natalia Gutman. BBC Radio 3 CD Review Reviewing recent releases of chamber music on CD. (February-April 2002). There was a welcome crop of radio appearances surrounding the release of my various CDs on the Lowri Records label. Here's a selection of them. BBC Radio 3
Breakfast
Rob Cowan played the three pieces by Falla, for cello and harp, from Lowri's CD Song of the Black Swan (27 November 2007). BBC Radio 3 Private Passions Michael Berkeley's guest Audra McDonald chose Lowri's recording of the Poulenc cello sonata (The 1948 Sonatas) as one of her favourite recordings (March 2007). BBC Radio 3 Morning on 3 Penny Gore played Lowri's recording of Song of the Black Swan (July 2004). BBC Radio 3 In Tune Presenter Chris de Souza played Lowri's CD Song of the Black Swan, 25 February 2002. BBC Radio 3 Late
Junction BBC Radio 3 Lebrecht
Live BBC Radio 3 Late
Junction BBC Radio 4 Woman's
Hour BBC Radio 3
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or hear the entire programme (17
minutes) I've given at least 150 performances on BBC Radio as a cello soloist. Some of my favourites have been: The French
Sonatas I've also enjoyed a number of television
performances, including:A series of programmes exploring the rich world of fin-de-siècle sonatas for cello and piano by French composers. Together with pianist Iwan Llewelyn-Jones I played and introduced sonatas by Magnard, Vierne, Ropartz, Huré, Saint-Saens, Debussy, and Fauré. The complete Beethoven In this series, together with pianist Ian Brown, I performed Beethoven's five sonatas for cello and piano, together with his three sets of variations. The Transatlantic Cello Pianist Caroline Palmer and I performed two programmes of twentienth-century music from Britain and America, including Carter, dello Joio, Britten, Barber and Crumb. Concert broadcasts Broadcast concert performances, many of them transmitted live, from BBC Broadcasting House, Purcell Room and Wigmore Hall in London, St. David's Hall in Cardiff, BBC studios in Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham... A Man, a Woman and a Double Bass Numerous classical cabaret performances by my duo with bass player Peter Buckoke, including music written for us by Diana Burrell, John Keane, Julian Jacobson and Betty Roe. BBC 4
Proms Live interval discussion, as Charles Hazelwood's guest in the BBC box, at the Proms concert of music by Oliver Knussen (July 2002) Dvorak cello concerto A concert broadcast from Brangwyn Hall on Swansea with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by James Lockhart. Vivaldi cello concertos Filmed for the BBC in Glasgow, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jerzy Maksimiuk. Peter Sculthorpe Threnody by Australia's premier composer, performed on solo cello for Channel 4 Wales. |
