Music in the Great War: Germany at War
With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Elgar: Piano Music; Brainteaser: Listeners' Puzzle; Music and literature scholar Kate Kennedy; Essential Choice: Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie.
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
Strauss
Eine Alpensinfonie
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG.
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Richard Strauss
Eine Alpensinfonie
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- DG.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
The Noonday Witch, Op 108
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.- Teldec.
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Edward Elgar
Idylle, Op 4 No 1
Performer: Ashley Wass.- NAXOS.
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Arnold Schoenberg
Der verlorene Haufen, Op. 12 No. 2
Singer: Thomas Hampson. Performer: Wolfram Rieger.- Orfeo.
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Sigfrid Karg鈥怑lert
A selection of his 30 Caprices, Op.107 'Gradus ad Parnassum'
Performer: Thies Roorda.- NAXOS.
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Xavier Montsalvatge
"Yambamo, yambambe!" (Cinco canciones negras)
Performer: Mats Lidstr枚m. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.- HYPERION.
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Max Reger
Eines Vaterlandisches Overture
Ensemble: Piano Duo Trenkner-Speidel.- MDG.
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Max Reger
Requiem Op. 144b
Singer: yoko Kawahara. Singer: Marga H枚ffgen. Singer: Hans-Dieter Bader. Singer: Nikolaus Hillebrand. Choir: North German Radio Choir. Orchestra: North German Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg. Conductor: Roland Bader.- Koch Schwann [Musica Sacra].
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Richard Wagner
A Faust Overture
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- CHANDOS.
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Franz Schubert
Impromptu, D.899 No. 2
Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.- Decca.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in B flat RV376
Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.- Sony.
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Vincent Youmans
Tahiti Trot
Music Arranger: Dmitry Shostakovich. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Decca.
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Puzzle
What connects the听 composer鈥檚 surname initial and the numbers of the symphonies to an island in the South Seas, famous for a story of mutiny?
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Answer: Tea for Two (T 4 2), which听was orchestrated by Shostakovich with the title 'Tahiti Trot'.
The music played:
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Tchaikovsky
1st mvmt Symphony No 4
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
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Tchaikovsky
1st mvmt Symphony No 2
Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 449 970 2听
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