Music - It's About Time
In a programme recorded at the Free Thinking Festival 2017 at Sage Gateshead, Tom Service explores how music warps and changes our sense of how time is flowing.
A programme recorded earlier this afternoon at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead, in which Tom goes on a journey into musical time and space. Find out what connects Wagner and Stockhausen, speed metal and slow movements - and how you can transform the fastest music in the world into the slowest, right in front of your ears...
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Nino Rota
Love theme from Romeo and Juliet
- Romeo and Juliet (1968 film soundtrack).
- Capitol.
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Cozy Powell
The Drums are back
- The Drums are back.
- Electrola.
- 1C 564 7 99226 2.
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Gy枚rgy Ligeti
Poeme Symphonique
Performer: Fran莽oise Terrioux.- Gyorgy Ligeti Edition Vol 5 - Mechanical Music.
- Sony.
- SK62310.
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Hildegard von Bingen
O virtus Sapientie - antiphon
Performer: Armonico Consort.- Naked Byrd, Vol. 2.
- Signum Classics.
- SIGCD235.
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George Frideric Handel
Fugue in E minor: Allegro
Performer: Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Ensemble.- Fugue around the Clock.
- Channel.
- CCSSA19403.
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G Dub & Taxman
Dub and Taxman Warp Speed
- Drum And Bass Essentials Mixed By DJ Hype.
- Warner Dance.
- WSMCD218.
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Ravi Shankar And Yehudi Menuhin
Prabhati (based on Raga Gunkali)
- Ravi Shankar And Yehudi Menuhin - West Meets East.
- BGO Records.
- BGOCD445.
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Grieg
Peer Gynt - suite no. 1 (Op.46), In the hall of the mountain king
Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.- Hanssler.
- CD98995.
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Franz Ferdinand
Take Me Out
- Franz Ferdinand.
- Domino.
- 27.
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Richard Wagner
Parsifal
Performer: Pierre Boulez.- WAGNER Parsifal Boulez.
- DG.
- 435 718-2.
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Johannes Ciconia
Le ray au soleil
Performer: Ensemble Leones.- Live recording with permission: Ensemble Leones.
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Anon
Sur toute fleur la est rose colourie
Performer: Els Janssen. Performer: Micha艂 Gondko. Performer: Uri Smilansky.- 鈥楩lour de Beault茅鈥, La Morra.
- 搁础惭脡贰.
- RAM 0602.
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Anton Webern
6 Bagatelles for String Quartet, Op. 9 - No. 1
Performer: Emerson String Quartet.- Webern: Five Movements for String Quartet.
- DG.
- 445 828-2.
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Wagner
Die Walkure: Act 3, "Magic Fire Music"
Performer: Berlin Radio SO. Performer: Marek Janowski. Performer: Tomasz Konieczny (baritone).- Wagner: Die Walk眉re.
- Pentatone.
- PTC5186 407.
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Bach arr Webern
Fuga (Ricercata) a 6 (Musical Offering, BWV1079)
Performer: Berlin Phil. Performer: Pierre Boulez.- WEBERN Complete Works Boulez.
- DG.
- 457 6372.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Waltz in D-Flat Major, Op. 64, No. 1 "Minute Waltz"
Performer: Sergei Rachmaninov (piano).- RCA.
- 09026625332.
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Sibelius
Symphony No. 7 In C Major Op.105
Performer: Boston SO. Performer: Colin Davis.- Philips.
- 4647402.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen, David Tudor, Christoph Caskel & Gottfried Michael Koenig
Kontakte
- WERGO.
- WER60092.
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Anton Bruckner
Symphony no 5
Performer: Leipzig Gewandhaus. Performer: Herbert Blomstedt.- Querstand.
- VKJK0931.
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Gy枚rgy Ligeti
Poeme Symphonique
Performer: Francoise Terrioux (metronomes).- Sony.
- SK62310.
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