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The John Marsh Journals

Lucie Skeaping explores the extensive journals of the English gentleman composer John Marsh, which represent one of the most important musical and social documents of the Eighteenth Century. With the journals' editor Brian Robins.

58 minutes

Music Played

  • Thomas Arne

    Artaxerxes - Overture III, Gavotte

    Ensemble: Classical Opera Company. Conductor: Ian Page.
    • LINN : CKD 358.
    • LINN.
    • 1.
  • George Frideric Handel

    'Lift up your heads' from Messiah

    Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI : 82876 640702.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 2.
  • John Marsh

    Symphony in F major: Larghetto

    Ensemble: The Chichester Concert. Conductor: Ian Graham-Jones.
    • OLYMPIA : OCD 400.
    • OLYMPIA.
    • 8.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Sonata in A minor, Op 4 no 1

    Ensemble: London Baroque. Conductor: Charles Medlam.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI : HMC 901344/45.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 13.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)from 'Messiah'

    Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • PHILIPS : 411 0412.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 8.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Zadok the Priest

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
  • George Frideric Handel

    'The Trumpet shall sound' from Messiah

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO : COR 16062.
    • CORO.
    • 25.
  • John Marsh

    A Conversation Symphony for Two Orchestras: Allegretto

    Ensemble: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • CHANDOS : CHAN 10458.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 7.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 27 Oct 2013 14:00
  • Sun 27 May 2018 14:00

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