Music in the Great War: Britain at War - At the Front
With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Elgar: Piano Music; Brainteaser: Critics' Corner; music and literature scholar Kate Kennedy; Sarah's Essential Choice: Bliss: Piano Quartet.
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
Sarah's Essential Choice
Bliss
Piano Quartet
Peter Donohoe (piano)
Maggini Quartet
NAXOS.
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Music Played
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Frédéric Chopin
Preludes Op.28: No.3 in G
Performer: Evgeny Kissin.- RCA.
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George Frideric Handel
Concerto a due cori No.2 in F, HWV333
Ensemble: Zefiro. Director: Alfredo Bernardini.- DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Edward Elgar
May Song
Performer: Ashley Wass.- NAXOS.
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Claude Debussy
Danse (orch. Ravel)
Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon. Conductor: Jun Märkl.- Naxos.
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George Butterworth
2 English Idylls
Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.- Halle.
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John Dowland
Lady Hunsdon's Puffe
Performer: Nigel North.- NAXOS.
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Burgmuller
Duo, Op. 15
Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.- Chandos.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Valse-Scherzo, Op.34
Performer: Julia Fischer. Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.- Pentatone.
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Cecil Coles
Fra Giacomo
Singer: Paul Whelan. Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.- Hyperion.
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Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto No 10 in C major
Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.- Archiv.
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George Frideric Handel
Largo (from Xerxes)
Performer: Tianwa Yang. Music Arranger: Pablo de Sarasate. Performer: Markus Hadulla.- Naxos.
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elliot
There's a Long, Long Trail
Singer: John McCormack. Orchestra: Orchestra.- Naxos.
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Dreyschock
Salut a Vienna: Rondo brillant op 32
Performer: Howard Shelley. Performer: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.- HYPERION.
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Arthur Bliss
Piano Quartet
Performer: Peter Donohoe. Ensemble: Maggini Quartet.- NAXOS.
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Franz Schubert
Symphony No.2 in B flat D.125
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: István Kertész.- Decca.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude & Fugue in F minor (Well Tempered Clavier Bk 1 no 12)
Performer: Peter Hill.- DELPHIAN.
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Critics' Corner
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