Julian Bream
Sean Rafferty visits guitarist Julian Bream at home in Wiltshire to discuss a lifetime of music making.
Sean Rafferty visits guitarist Julian Bream at home in Wiltshire to discuss a lifetime of music making.
At 80 years old, Julian Bream CBE has left a lasting legacy on the world of classical music, he popularised the lute and Elizabethan music and worked closely with composers such as Benjamin Britten, Michael Tippett and Malcolm Arnold to increase the guitar's repertoire.
Julian talks candidly to Sean about his experiences as a child prodigy, forced to play the piano and cello because the guitar wasn't considered a "serious" classical instrument and recounts his first experience, as a teenager, sitting in the Wigmore Hall with a pair of binoculars watching the hands of his hero Andres Segovia. Bream describes the anguish he felt while he locked himself in a shepherd's hut in Majorca for ten days, forcing himself to master Britten's fiendishly difficult Nocturnal, and how he offered Malcolm Arnold 拢30 to write him a concerto - a commission which was fulfilled in a matter of days.
Now at the end of his career and playing no more than a few notes on his guitar, this extended interview is a unique insight into one of Britain's most important musical figures of the 20th Century.
First broadcast in December 2013 (revised repeat)
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Music Played
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Michael Tippett
The Blue guitar for guitar
Performer: Julian Bream.- TESTAMENT.
- SBT-1333.
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William Lawes
Suite in D major, arr. Bream for 2 guitars [orig. for 2 lutes]
Performer: John Williams. Performer: Julian Bream.- RCA.
- 09026614502.
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Joaqu铆n Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra
Performer: Julian Bream. Performer: Monteverdi Orchestra.- RCA.
- 09026 61605 2.
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John Dowland
My Lady Hunsdons puffe - almain for lute
Performer: Julian Bream.- RCA.
- 09026615832.
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Daniel Bacheler
Daniell's almayne for mixed consort
Performer: Julian Bream Consort.- RCA.
- 09026615832.
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John Dowland
Mrs Vauxes gigge P.57 for lute
Performer: Julian Bream.- RCA.
- 09026615832.
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Malcolm Arnold
Concerto Op.67 for guitar and small orchestra
Performer: Julian Bream. Performer: Melos Ensemble.- RCA.
- 09026615832.
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John Dowland
Lachrimae - pavan P.15 for lute
Performer: Julian Bream.- RCA.
- 09026615832.
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Benjamin Britten
Nocturnal after John Dowland Op.70 for guitar
Performer: Julian Bream.- RCA.
- 09026615832.
Broadcasts
- Mon 23 Dec 2013 16:30成人论坛 Radio 3
- Mon 29 Sep 2014 22:00成人论坛 Radio 3
- Sat 29 Aug 2020 21:15成人论坛 Radio 3