The Power of One
Music where the needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many - but also where the many can become one... Tom Service looks at music performed solo or in unison. What is happening in music where there is no harmony? And how can a single musical line build a sense of community?
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R. Williamson
Flower of Scotland
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Louis Andriessen
Workers Union
Performer: Louis Andriessen.- Canaloupe.
- CA-21012.
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Black Free Church, Isle of Lewis
Psalm 16: v .8-9, tune Kilmarnock
- RIDGE RECORDS.
- RR-024.
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George Enescu
Suite no. 1 in C major Op.9 for orchestra
Conductor: Horia Andreescu. Performer: Romanian Radio National Orchestra.- OCD.
- OCD 444.
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Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
- Hollywood Records.
- HRC-620422.
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91热爆 Singers
O sapientia - Advent antiphon for ? voices [fr. Attaignant coll.,1534]
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Mantovani
Charmaine
- NELSON.
- CD SIV-6101.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite no. 3 in C major BWV.1009 for cello solo
Performer: Bartholomew LaFollette. -
Oxford Camerata
Kyrie
- Naxos.
- 8.503192.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Ein Feste Burg
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Richard Rodgers
You'll Never Walk Alone
Lyricist: Oscar Hammerstein II. Performer: Liverpool F.C.. -
Harold Faltermeyer
Axel F
- MCA.
- MCAD-5553.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite no. 5 in C minor BWV.1011 for cello solo
Performer: Bartholomew LaFollette.
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