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Music on the Brink: Live from the Imperial War Museum North in Salford

Music on the Brink: Sean Rafferty presents a special show from the Imperial War Museum North, with live music and guests including tenor Nick Pritchard and pianist Martin Roscoe.

As part of Radio 3's Music on the Brink season exploring the musical world on the eve of WW1, Sean Rafferty presents a special show from the Imperial War Museum North. With live music and guests including tenor Nick Pritchard, pianist Martin Roscoe, the Zelkova Quartet and pianist Yasmin Rowe. The music looks both backwards and forwards, with Vaughan Williams' On Wenlock Edge, Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin and pieces by Debussy, Gurney and Poulenc, as well as recordings of music from composrs whose lives will change in the summer of 1914. Plus readings of World War I poetry and prose.

Including the last of our Music on the Brink Postcards. Today's is from London 1914 - giving an impression of concert life in the city on the eve of the First World War. Read by Jonathan Pryce, star of stage and screen.

2 hours

Last on

Fri 10 Jan 2014 16:30

Music Played

  • Ivor Gurney

    5 Elizabethan songs

    Performer: Martin Roscoe. Performer: Nick Pritchard.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets - suite Op.32

    Performer: HallΓ©.
    • HELIOS.
    • CDH-55350.
  • Ivor Gurney

    5 Elizabethan songs

    Performer: Martin Roscoe. Performer: Nick Pritchard.
  • Claude Debussy

    12 Studies for piano

    Performer: Martin Roscoe.
  • Maurice Ravel

    A la maniere de... - 2 pieces for piano

    Performer: Martin Roscoe.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Le Tombeau de Couperin for piano

    Performer: Martin Roscoe.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    On Wenlock Edge for tenor, piano and string quartet ad lib.

    Performer: Nick Pritchard. Performer: Yasmin Rowe. Performer: Zelkova Quartet.
  • Kenneth J. Alford

    Colonel Bogey - march

    Performer: H M Grenadier Guards Band.
    • MUSIC FOR PLEASURE.
    • MFP 8 52607-2.
  • Erno Dohnanyi

    Suite im alten Stil Op.24 for piano

    Performer: Martin Roscoe.
  • George Butterworth

    The Banks of green willow - idyll for orchestra

    Performer: English S O.
    • NIMBUS.
    • NI-5210.

Broadcast

  • Fri 10 Jan 2014 16:30

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