Cécile McLorin Salvant talks tunes and tatting

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces the best classical music and stories from the arts world.

Sara chats to the Grammy Award-winning vocalist and composer Cécile McLorin Salvant about her life in music and her new album "With Every Breath I Take", featuring the Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules Buckley. Cécile talks about the role humour plays in how she chooses songs, the different voices she uses when singing in English and French, and her love of tatting lace whenever she’s not immersed in music.

Sara is joined by musicians from the Sphinx Organisation which was started by the violinist Aaron Dworkin in Detroit in 1996 to give a platform to, and develop the careers of, young Black and Latino classical musicians, and it’s still going strong with residencies, summer schools, competitions, ensembles and more. Violinists Elena Urioste and Nathan Amaral, violist Celia Hatton, cellist Sterling Elliot and pianist Amiri Harewood perform music by Florence Price and Ralph Vaughan Williams and talk to Sara about how being part of Sphinx has shaped their musical paths.

Our focus on Creators continues with Glynis Jones who was a member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in the 1970s. As the BBC moves out of its legendary Maida Vale Studios, Glynis reflects on what daily life was like there in the Radiophonic Workshop and how the legacy of the sounds she and her colleagues created can still be heard on television and radio today.

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