Music in the Great War: Rob Cowan with Jay Winter
With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Volodos plays Mompou; Brainteaser: Who/What/Where Am I?; Historian Jay Winter; Essential Choice: Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola and harp.
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
Debussy
Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp
Melos Ensemble.
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Music Played
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LΓ©o Delibes
Scene (Finale from Tableau II of Coppelia)
Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Ernest Ansermet.- Decca.
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Bedrich Smetana
Overture: The Bartered Bride
Orchestra: Pro Arte Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- EMI.
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Federico Mompou
Dialogues I; Musica callada
Performer: Arcadi Volodos.- Sony.
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George Frideric Handel
Organ Concerto in F major, HWV 295, 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale'
Performer: Bob van Asperen. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.- Virgin.
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Hector Berlioz
Hungarian March (The Damnation of Faust)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis. -
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Edward Elgar
La capricieuse, Op 17
Performer: Natalie Clein. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.- Warner Classics.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Three Shakespeare Songs
Choir: Finzi Singers. Conductor: Paul Spicer.- Chandos.
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Anton Webern
Movement for piano
Performer: Gianluca Cascioli.- DG.
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Magnard
Chant funebre, Op 9
Orchestra: Toulouse Capitole Orchestra. Conductor: Michel Plasson.- EMI.
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Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto grosso in G minor, Op 5 No 8 (Christmas Concerto)
Performer: The Brandenburg Consort. Performer: Roy Goodman (violin/director).- HYPERION.
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Ivor Novello
Keep the home fires burning
Singer: John McCormack.- Flapper.
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Ernest MacMillan
String Quartet in C minor (III. Lento ma non troppo)
Ensemble: Alcan Quartet.- Atma Classique.
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Arthur Benjamin
3 Pieces for violin and piano (1919): Arabesque; Carnavalesque
Performer: John Harding. Performer: Ian Munro.- Tall Poppies.
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Claude Debussy
Sonata for flute, viola and harp
Ensemble: Melos Ensemble.- Decca.
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Carl Nielsen
Symphony No 3, Op 27 (Sinfonia espansiva)
Performer: Nancy Wait Kromm (soprano). Performer: Kevin McMillan (baritone). Performer: San Francisco Symphony. Performer: Herbert Blomstedt (conductor).- DECCA.
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Edvard Grieg
Solvieg's Song (Peer Gynt)
Performer: MariAnne Haggander (soprano). Performer: San Francisco Symphony. Performer: Herbert Blomstedt (conductor).- DECCA.
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Who am I?
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