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Eat to the Beat

An enticing meal exploring the connections between food and music, including the links between recipes and musical scores, and as the ultimate signifiers of a longed-for homeland.

What have a Mahler symphony and a recipe for sautéed kidneys got in common? Why do refugees and other displaced people take food and music with them when they are forced to leave their homeland? How do today's Spotify restaurant playlists and their 18th-century equivalents compare? Can you play in an orchestra and then eat your instruments?

Tom Service and anthropologist Jonathan H Shannon have the answers.

David Papp (producer)

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29 minutes

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Fri 8 Oct 2021 16:30
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Music Played

  • Ousley

    MEMPHIS SOUL STEW

    Music Arranger: N/A. Performer: King Curtis.
    • WARNER.
    • 9548-33340-2.

  • (COMPOSER) UNKNOWN

    Nassam 'Alayna al-Hawa

    Performer: Syrian musicians, Taksim Meydani.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in B flat major K.361 for 13 wind instruments

    Performer: Linos Ensemble.
    • CAPRICCIO.
    • C10472.

  • (COMPOSER) UNKNOWN

    Whimsical Impasse

    Performer: Jazzaphonics.
    • LG / Jazz CafĂ©.
    • unknown.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no. 7

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER.
    • BPHR2003646.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in G major K.525 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'

    Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Bruno Weil.
    • SONY.
    • G010001222769P.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in E flat major K.375 vers. for wind octet

    Performer: Chamber Orchestra of Europe Wind Soloists.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2564608662.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in D major K.250 (Haffner)

    Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens. Performer: Alexander Janiczek. Performer: Cologne Academy.
    • BIS.
    • BIS2394.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Don Giovanni - opera in 2 acts K.527

    Conductor: René Jacobs. Performer: Johannes Weisser. Performer: Lorenzo Regazzo. Performer: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • HMC 901964/66.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Quartet in G major TWV.43.G1 for flute, oboe, violin and continuo [Tafelmusik, 1ere production]

    Performer: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • HMC902042.25.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture (Suite) in D major [Tafelmusik, seconde production]

    Performer: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • HMC-902042.45.

  • Coffee House Classics

    Stains of Time

    • LG Sounds / Coffee House Classics.
    • unknown.

  • Roman Palomar

    El Mariachi Loco

    Performer: Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán.
    • UNIVERSAL/ISLAND DEF JAM.
    • unknown.

  • Traditional

    Ya Mal Al Sham

    Performer: Sabah Fakhri.
    • Voix de L'Orient.
    • unknown.

  • Hellopsychaleppo

    Badawiya Lovin'

    • L.P.R. Let's Play Records.
    • unknown.

  • The Vegetable Orchestra

    Green Days

Broadcasts

  • Sun 3 Oct 2021 17:00
    ±«Óătv Radio 3
  • Fri 8 Oct 2021 16:30
    ±«Óătv Radio 3

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