Britain at War - At the Front
Penny Gore with music connected to World War I. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 3. WD Browne: Two Dances. Moeran: Symphony in G minor. Sibelius: Finlandia. Schumann: Symphony No 1.
Part of Radio 3's WWI season, Music in the Great War.
Penny Gore continues this week's exploration of music connected with World War One. Today features composers who were at the front. Vaughan Williams' exposure to prolonged gunfire was the cause of his deafness in old age; Denis Browne was killed in action during the Gallipoli campaign and Moeran spent most of World War I as a despatch rider and was wounded at Bullecourt in 1917. The remainder of the afternoon features music by Sibelius and Schumann from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic.
Vaughan Williams
Symphony no.3 'Pastoral'
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)
2.35pm William Denis Browne
Two Dances for small orchestra
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic
Paul Daniel (conductor)
2.45pm Moeran
Symphony in G minor
Ulster Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor)
3.33pm Sibelius
Finlandia
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic
Antonello Manacorda (conductor)
3.43pm Schumann
Symphony no.1 in B flat major (Spring)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic
Antonello Manacorda (conductor).
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William Charles Denis Browne
2 Dances
Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Paul Daniel. -
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Benjamin Britten
Passacaglia [from 'Peter Grimes'] Op.33b
Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Paul Daniel. -
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Jean Sibelius
Finlandia Op.26
Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Antonello Manacorda. -
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Robert Schumann
Symphony no. 1 in B flat major (Spring)
Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Antonello Manacorda. -
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Pastoral symphony (Symphony no.3)
Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. -
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E.J. Moeran
Symphony in G minor
Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
Broadcast
- Tue 24 Jun 2014 14:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3