Music on the Brink: Berlin
With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: English Fantasia; Music and culture of Berlin on the eve of World War One; Sarah's Essential Choice: Dohnanyi: Variations on a Nursery Tune.
Sarah Walker and at 10.30am her guest, the historian Charles Emmerson, discussing the music and cultural trends in Berlin on the eve of World War One.
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A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: English Fantasia: favourite works of Elgar, Delius and Vaughan Williams. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30: Endings
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Artist of the Week: Elly Ameling
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Sarah and her guest the historian and writer on international affairs Charles Emmerson discuss the music and cultural trends in Berlin on the eve on World War 1, as part of Radio 3's Music on the Brink season.
Charles Emmerson is the author of "1913: The World Before the Great War", which tells the stories of twenty-three cities across the world - from Europe's capitals and the emerging metropolises of America, to the imperial cities of Asia and Africa. He has worked for the International Crisis Group, the World Economic Forum, and is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House, working on resource security issues, foreign policy and global geopolitics.
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Essential Choice: Music on the Brink - Berlin
顿辞丑苍谩苍测颈
Variations on a Nursery Tune for piano and orchestra
Andras Schiff
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Georg Solti (conductor)
11:25am
Schumann
Symphony No. 1
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.
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Erno Dohnanyi
Variations on a Nursery Song
Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.- Decca.
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Orpheus und Eurydike: 'Ach, Ich habe sie verloren'
Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau. Music Arranger: Doerffel. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay.- DG.
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orpheus and Euridice)
Performer: Wilhelm Kempff.- DG.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Lilacs Op.21`5
Performer: Sergey Rachmaninov.- Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No. 2: Nelson Goerner.
- Cascavelle.
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Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 1
Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Z眉rich. Conductor: David Zinman.- BMG ARTE NOVA.
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Felix Mendelssohn
The Bee's Wedding (Songs without words - bk.6 Op.67)
Orchestrator: Don Banks. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: Robert Irving.- Vocalion.
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Ambroise Thomas
Raymond (Overture)
Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Ernest Ansermet.- Decca Eloquence.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis
Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.- Sony.
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Turlough O'Carolan
Planxty Irwin
Performer: Jordi Savall. Performer: Andrew Lawrence鈥怟ing.- Alia Vox.
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Endings: Overtures
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Felix Mendelssohn
Concert piece no. 1 in F minor Op.113
Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Wolfgang Meyer. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Kenneth Sillito.- EMI.
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Endings: Overtures
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Ferruccio Busoni
Nocturne symphonique, Op 43
Orchestra: North German Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Werner Andreas Albert.- CPO.
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Carl Maria von Weber
Der Freisch眉tz (Overture)
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.- Philips.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ch'io mi scordi di te, K 505
Singer: Elly Ameling. Performer: Dalton Baldwin. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Edo de Waart.- Philips.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Fantasy in F minor Op.49
Performer: Krystian Zimerman.- 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
- Deutshe Grammophon.
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Richard Wagner
Tannhauser: Overture
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Klaus Tennstedt.- EMI.
Today鈥檚 Brainteaser Answer
Endings
The music played:
Mozart
Don Giovanni Overture
Staatskapelle Dresden
Colin Davis (conductor)
RCA 74321 56698 2听
Rossini
William Tell Overture
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)听
DG 413 587 2听
Weber
Der Freischutz Overture
Philharmonia Orchestra
Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)
EMI CDZ 569579 2听听
Today's Brainteaser - Ending
The Endings were:
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Mozart - Overture to Don Giovanni
Rossini - Overture to William Tell
Weber - Overture to Der Freischutz
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The music details:
Mozart - Overture to Don Giovanni
Staatskapelle Dresden
Colin Davis (conductor)
RCA 74321 56698
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Rossini - Overture to William Tell
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 413 587-2
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Weber - Overture to Der Freischutz
Philharmonia Orchestra
Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)
EMI CDZ 569579-2
听
听
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