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.
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Ivor Gurney
5 Elizabethan songs
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Gustav Holst
The Planets - suite Op.32
Performer: HallΓ©.- HELIOS.
- CDH-55350.
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Ivor Gurney
5 Elizabethan songs
Performer: Martin Roscoe. Performer: Nick Pritchard. -
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Claude Debussy
12 Studies for piano
Performer: Martin Roscoe. -
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Maurice Ravel
A la maniere de... - 2 pieces for piano
Performer: Martin Roscoe. -
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Maurice Ravel
Le Tombeau de Couperin for piano
Performer: Martin Roscoe. -
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
On Wenlock Edge for tenor, piano and string quartet ad lib.
Performer: Nick Pritchard. Performer: Yasmin Rowe. Performer: Zelkova Quartet. -
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Kenneth J. Alford
Colonel Bogey - march
Performer: H M Grenadier Guards Band.- MUSIC FOR PLEASURE.
- MFP 8 52607-2.
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Erno Dohnanyi
Suite im alten Stil Op.24 for piano
Performer: Martin Roscoe. -
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George Butterworth
The Banks of green willow - idyll for orchestra
Performer: English S O.- NIMBUS.
- NI-5210.
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