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.
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Music Played
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Place that Piece
Performer: anon. -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata No.1 in E flat major, BWV.525
Performer: Julian Bream. Performer: George Malcolm.- RCA.
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Charles Villiers Stanford
Prelude in G minor for organ
Performer: Christopher Whitton.- NAXOS.
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Claude Debussy
Jeux
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- Philips.
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Edward Elgar
Sonatina in G major
Performer: Ashley Wass.- NAXOS.
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Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto
Performer: Truls Mørk. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Virgin.
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Enrique Granados
Rondalla aragonesa (12 Danzas españolas)
Performer: Alicia de Larrocha.- Decca.
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Hubert Parry
From Death to Life
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.- CHANDOS.
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Franz Liszt
Les préludes
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- Philips.
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Peter Warlock
Capriol Suite
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite.- Lyrita.
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František Ignác Tuma
Sonata in A minor
Ensemble: Musica Florea. Conductor: Marek Å tryncl.- Supraphon.
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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.
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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
Broadcast
- Mon 23 Jun 2014 09:00Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3