Dan Snow
Dan Snow presents music relating to the Napoleonic Wars. Including Beethoven, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and Paisiello, plus Corsican polyphonic music from Napoleon's childhood.
In this edition of Saturday Classics, the historian Dan Snow presents a sequence of music relating to his favourite period in history - the Napoloeonic Wars. Napoleon's exact contemporary Beethoven will feature heavily alongside music by Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Paisiello (Napoleon's favourite composer) and some of the Corsican polyphonic music of Napoleon's childhood.
First broadcast 16/02/2013.
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La Violetta
Conductor: Jean-Paul Poletti Performer: Sartene Male-Voice Choir
- ETHNIC B 6849.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no. 3 in E flat major Op.55 (Eroica) - 1st movement; Allegro con brio
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner Performer: Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
- ARCHIV 4778643.
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My Son Tim
Performer: Donal Lunny Performer: Frank Hart
- Hummingbird Records.
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Giovanni Paisiello
Mass for the coronation of Napoleon I in B flat major
Performer: Gerard Dunan Performer: Mady Mesple Performer: Yves Bisson Performer: Association Chorale Contrepoint
- PHILIPS 6504048.
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Hyacinthe Jadin
La Grande Bataille d'Austerlitz (excerpt)
Performer: Daniel Propper
- FORGOTTEN RECORDS FR16/17P.
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Nino Rota
The Battle for Austerlitz
Performer: Orchestra conducted by Franco Ferrara
- Columbia B00400CAD6.
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Sergey Prokofiev
War and peace - symphonic suite, arr. Christopher Palmer - Part 1
Conductor: Neeme Jarvi Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra
- CHANDOS 10538.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata no. 26 in E flat major Op.81a (Les Adieux) for piano
Performer: Richard Goode
- ELEKTRA/NONESUCH 7559-79328-2.
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 overture Op.49
Conductor: Mariss Jansons Performer: Montreal Symphony Orchestra
- EMI CDD7642912.
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Hector Berlioz
Le Cinq mai Op.6 for bass, chorus and orchestra
Performer: Lieuwe Visser Performer: Dutch Radio Choir Performer: Dutch Radio Symphony Orchestra
- DENON CO72886.
Broadcasts
- Sat 16 Feb 2013 15:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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