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Music in the Great War: Britain at War - Outbreak

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Elgar: Piano Music; Brainteaser: Place that Piece; music and literature scholar Kate Kennedy; Elgar: Cello Concerto.

with Sarah Walker and her guest, the music and literature scholar, Kate Kennedy.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Elgar: Piano Music, Ashley Wass, NAXOS. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

9:30 - 10:30 Including a selection of music from the time of World War One.

10:30
Sarah's guest this week is the consultant to the Radio 3 World War One programming, Kate Kennedy. Kate is a Research Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge, where she teaches in the English and Music Faculties. She has published numerous papers on music and literature around the First World War, and is currently working on a biography of the poet and composer Ivor Gurney, and co-editing The Silent Morning: Cultural Responses to the Armistice, 1918. She has also recently co-edited and contributed to a special edition of the Journal of First World War Studies, entitled The First World War: Music, Literature, Memory. She gives regular lectures in music festivals, pre-concert talks, contributes as a guest to programmes for Radio 3 and is a freelance baroque cellist.

11am
Elgar
Cello Concerto
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

3 hours

Music Played

  • anon

    Place that Piece

    Performer: anon.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata No.1 in E flat major, BWV.525

    Performer: Julian Bream. Performer: George Malcolm.
    • RCA.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Prelude in G minor for organ

    Performer: Christopher Whitton.
    • NAXOS.
  • Claude Debussy

    Jeux

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.
  • Edward Elgar

    Sonatina in G major

    Performer: Ashley Wass.
    • NAXOS.
  • Edward Elgar

    Cello Concerto

    Performer: Truls Mørk. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Virgin.
  • Enrique Granados

    Rondalla aragonesa (12 Danzas españolas)

    Performer: Alicia de Larrocha.
    • Decca.
  • Hubert Parry

    From Death to Life

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Franz Liszt

    Les préludes

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.
  • Peter Warlock

    Capriol Suite

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite.
    • Lyrita.
  • FrantiÅ¡ek Ignác Tuma

    Sonata in A minor

    Ensemble: Musica Florea. Conductor: Marek Å tryncl.
    • Supraphon.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Fare Well (Songs for the Fleet, Op.117)

    Singer: Gerald Finley. Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Richard Wagner

    Tannhäuser (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Teldec.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Place that Piece

The place was: Granada.

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The music played:

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Debussy
Estampes: La soiree dans Grenade
Noriko Ogawa (piano)
BIS-CD-1955/56

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