Music in the Great War: Britain at War - The 91热爆 Front
With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Elgar: Piano Music; Brainteaser: Who/What/Where Am I?; Music and literature scholar Kate Kennedy; Sarah's Essential Choice: Bridge: A Prayer.
with Sarah Walker and her guest, the music and literature scholar, Kate Kennedy.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Elgar: Piano Music, Ashley Wass, NAXOS. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.
9:30 - 10:30 Including a selection of music from the time of World War One.
10:30
Sarah's guest this week is the consultant to the Radio 3 World War One programming, Kate Kennedy. Kate is a Research Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge, where she teaches in the English and Music Faculties. She has published numerous papers on music and literature around the First World War, and is currently working on a biography of the poet and composer Ivor Gurney, and co-editing The Silent Morning: Cultural Responses to the Armistice, 1918. She has also recently co-edited and contributed to a special edition of the Journal of First World War Studies, entitled The First World War: Music, Literature, Memory. She gives regular lectures in music festivals, pre-concert talks, contributes as a guest to programmes for Radio 3 and is a freelance baroque cellist.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Bridge
A Prayer
91热爆 National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)
CHANDOS.
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Music Played
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William Lawes
Consort Sett 脿 5 in A minor (Aire)
Ensemble: Fretwork.- VIRGIN CLASSICS.
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Johannes Brahms
Tragic Overture
Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Otto Klemperer.- EMI.
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Edward Elgar
Carissima
Performer: Ashley Wass.- Naxos.
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George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso Op.3 No.5 in D minor
Performer: Combattimento. Performer: Jan Willem de Vriend (conductor).- CHANNEL CLASSICS.
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Hubert Parry
Chivalry of the Sea
Choir: 91热爆 Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.- DUTTON.
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Niccol貌 Paganini
Allegro vivace a movimento perpetuo
Performer: Gil Shaham. Performer: G枚ran S枚llscher.- DG.
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Francis Poulenc
Novelettes: No. 1 in C major; No. 2 in B flat minor
Performer: Pascal Rog茅.- Decca.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento No. 11 in D major, K.251: Marcia alla francese
Orchestra: Cologne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Helmut M眉ller鈥怋r眉hl.- Naxos.
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John Ireland
Violin Sonata No.2 in A minor
Performer: Paul Barritt. Performer: Catherine Edwards.- HYPERION.
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Mozart
Kyrie in C KV323
Performer: Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Performer: Concentus Musicus Wien. Performer: Nicholas Harnoncourt (conductor).- TELDEC.
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Rebecca Clarke
Morpheus
Performer: Philip Dukes. Performer: Sophia Rahman.- Naxos.
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Adela Maddison
Piano Quintet: II. Vivace
Ensemble: Fibonacci Sequence.- Dutton Epoch.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Jesu, joy of man's desiring BWV147 (arr Hess)
Performer: Penelope Thwaites (lute).- LIR CLASSICS.
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Frank Bridge
A Prayer
Choir: 91热爆 National Chorus of Wales. Orchestra: 91热爆 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- CHANDOS.
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Edwin York Bowen
Nos. 2 & 3 from Three Preludes Op.81
Performer: Joop Celis (piano).- CHANDOS.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto in D Op.35
Performer: Henryk Szeryng. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.- Sony.
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