Ranked Amateurs
Instead of a byword for sloppy low standards and dilettantes, Tom Service wants you to think of amateurs as an essential and vital force in music for the last three centuries.
Today, 'amateur' has become a byword for sloppiness and low standards. But for centuries amateurs were the bedrock of musical life and an essential and vitalising force for composers, providing not only a cohort of highly-accomplished performers and the most discerning audience but also a lucrative vein to be mined by music publishers. To find out how and why attitudes changed - and if they are still changing - Tom Service is joined by writer and historian Katy Hamilton.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no. 9 in D minor Op.125 (Choral)
Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker. Performer: Eric Ericsons Kammark枚r. Performer: Radiok枚ren.- DG.
- 4714912.
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Franz Schubert
Die Forelle D.550
Performer: Barbara Bonney. Performer: Geoffrey Parsons.- Elatus.
- 0927-467412.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto no. 9 in E flat major K.271 for piano and orchestra
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Performer: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.- warner classics.
- 5578032.
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Johannes Brahms
4 Songs Op.17 for women's voices, 2 horns and harp
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Performer: Anneke Scott. Performer: Nuala Hebert. Performer: Monteverdi Choir. -
Benjamin Britten
Noye's fludde - children's opera in 1 act Op.59
Conductor: Richard Hickox. Performer: Endymion Ensemble.- Erato.
- 3499232.
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Tansy Davies
Feather and Groove
Conductor: Gregory Rose. Performer: London Sinfonietta.- NMC.
- NMC DL 228.
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Edward Elgar
Severn suite Op.87 for brass band in B flat or C major
Conductor: Elgar Howarth. Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band.- decca.
- 4737412.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Elijah Op.70
Performer: Paul McCreesh. Performer: Gabrieli Consort. Performer: Ch贸r NFM.- SIGNUM.
- SIGCD300.
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Joseph Haydn
Quartet in A major Op.20`6 for strings
Performer: Chiaroscuro Orchestra.- BIS.
- BIS 2168.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Musikalisches Opfer BWV.1079
Performer: Sonnerie.- VIRGIN CLASSICS.
- VC-5451392.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Lieder ohne Worte - book 7 Op.85
Performer: Ronald Brautigam.- bis.
- 1983.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
The Consecration of the House, Op.124
Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- CAPRICCIO.
- C10549.
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Franz Schubert
3 Marches militaires D.733 for piano duet
Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Performer: Radu Lupu.- Teldec.
- 0630171462.
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George Frideric Handel
Messiah
Conductor: Malcolm Sargent. Performer: Huddersfield Choral Society. Performer: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.- Warner Classics.
- 375 9202.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no. 4 in B flat major Op.60
Performer: Yury Martynov.- ZigZag.
- ZigZag ZZ356.
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Franz Schubert
Trinklied (Freunde sammelt euch im Kreise) D.75 for bass, male chorus and piano
Conductor: Jan Schumacher. Performer: Andreas Frese. Performer: Cantabile Limburg.- Genuin.
- GEN18616.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
25 Scottish songs Op.108 for voice and piano trio
Performer: Christopher Maltman. Performer: Krysia Osostowicz. Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Performer: Ursula Smith.- DG.
- 4775128.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
3 Waltzes Op.64 for piano
Performer: Ingrid Fliter.- WARNER CLASSICS.
- 5148992.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no. 5 in C minor Op.67
Performer: Yury Martynov.- ZigZag.
- ZigZag ZZ356.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no. 5 in C minor Op.67
Performer: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.- DG.
- 4474002.
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Johannes Brahms
Symphony no. 1 in C minor Op.68
Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker.- WARNER CLASSICS.
- 2672542.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni - opera in 2 acts K.527
Performer: Budapester Bl盲serensemble.- Harmonia Mundi.
- 903008.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni - opera in 2 acts K.527
Performer: Bryn Terfel. Performer: New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Conductor: James Levine.- DGG.
- DG-445866-2.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Elijah Op.70
Performer: Paul McCreesh. Performer: Gabrieli Consort. Performer: Ch贸r NFM.- SIGNUM.
- SIGCD300.
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Arnold Schoenberg
Pierrot lunaire Op.21 for voice and ensemble
Conductor: Pierre Boulez. Performer: Chistine Schafer. Performer: Ensemble intercontemporain.- DG.
- 4790563.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no. 5 in C minor Op.67
Conductor: Art煤r Nikisch. Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker.- Symposium.
- sympcd1087-88.
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Traditional
Joe Cooley's Fancy Trad Music Session, Dolan's Pub
Performer: Rambling Fiddler. -
Jack's Raging Mind
Taken to the Gallows
Performer: Jack's Raging Mind. -
Susan Boyle
I Dreamed a Dream
- SONY MUSIC.
- BOO2LE-8EFQ.
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Benjamin Britten
Noye's fludde - children's opera in 1 act Op.59
Conductor: Norman Del Mar. Performer: East Suffolk Children's Orchestra. Performer: English Chamber Orchestra Chorus. Performer: English Chamber Orchestra.- decca.
- 4251612.
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Cornelius Cardew
The Great learning [rev.1970-71]
Performer: Scratch Orchestra. Performer: Cornelius Cardew.- dg.
- 4715722.
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Just Because
Trap Nation Drop
Performer: Just Because.
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