Music in the Great War: Rob Cowan with Jay Winter
With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Volodos plays Mompou; Brainteaser: Originally Written For; Historian Jay Winter; Rob's Essential Choice: Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings.
Music in the Great War, with Rob Cowan and his guest, the historian Jay Winter.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Volodos plays Mompou, SONY. 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
Rob's guest this week is the American historian Jay Winter, a specialist in World War I and its impact on the 20th century. He has authored or co-authored several war-themed books, including The Great War and the British People, The Experience of World War I, and, most recently, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History, 1914-1918. He was also co-producer, co-writer and chief historian for the PBS series The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century, which won an Emmy Award. Jay is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings
Soviet Emigre Orchestra
Lazar Gosman (conductor).
Last on
Music Played
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William Walton
Music Plays (from A Shakespeare Suite: Richard III, arr Muir Matheson)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: William Walton.- EMI.
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Leonard Bernstein
Prelude, Fugue and Riffs
Performer: Benny Goodman. Ensemble: Columbia Jazz Combo. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.- Sony.
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Federico Mompou
Musica callada II Lent; Musica callada XXVII Lento molto
Performer: Arcadi Volodos.- Sony.
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Robert Schumann
Manfred Overture
Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.- DG.
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Anon.
Today's Brainteaser - Originally Written For...?
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Robert Schumann
Romances Op 94
Performer: Douglas Boyd. Performer: Maria JoΓ£o Pires.- DG.
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Henryk Wieniawski
Polonaise de Concert, Op. 4
Performer: Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider. Performer: Daniel Gortler.- RCA Victor Red Seal.
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Sergey Prokofiev
God of evil and pagan dance (Scythian suite from 'Ala i Lolly' Op.20)
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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Edvard Grieg
Butterfly, Op 43 No 1 & Melody, Op 47 No 3
Performer: Mikhail Pletnev (piano).- DG.
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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Capriccio brillante on the theme 'Jota aragonese'
Orchestra: State Academic Symphony Orchestra of The Russian Federation. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.- Melodiya / BMG.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Blessed art Thou, O Lord (from The All Night Vigil, Op 37)
Choir: St. Petersburg Chamber Choir. Conductor: ΠΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π°ΠΉ ΠΠΎΡΠ½Π΅Π².- Philips.
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Agapkin
The Farewell of Slavianka
Ensemble: The Red Army Choir and Band. Conductor: Victor Federov.- Naxos.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Contrapunctus 13 (The Art of Fugue)
Performer: Andrew Davis (organ).- PHILIPS.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Serenade for strings
Orchestra: Soviet Emigre Orchestra. Conductor: Lazar Gosman.- Olympia.
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Mozart
Piano Concerto in E flat, K449
Performer: Maria JoΓ£o Pires. Performer: The Gulbenkian Orchestra. Performer: Theodor Guschlbauer (conductor).- ERATO.
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AntonΓn DvoΕΓ‘k
Silent Woods, Op 68 No 5
Performer: Alisa Weilerstein (cello). Performer: Anna Polonsky (piano).- DECCA.
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Originally Written For
The music was from Brahms' 3rd Symphony, originally written for orchestra.
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The music played:
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Brahms arr. Remco Jak
Poco allegretto (Symphony No 3)
Amstel Quartet
CHALLENGE CLASSICS CC72534
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