Music in the Great War: Rob Cowan with Jay Winter
With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Volodos plays Mompou; Brainteaser: Only Connect; Historian Jay Winter; Rob's Essential Choice: Bridge: Piano Sonata.
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
Bridge
Piano Sonata
Ashley Wass (piano).
Last on
Music Played
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Erik Satie
Le Piccadilly
Performer: Anne Queffélec.- Virgin.
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George Frideric Handel
Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 ‘Alexander's Feast’
Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Raymond Leppard.- Philips.
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Federico Mompou
Musica callada XXV
Performer: Arcadi Volodos.- Sony.
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John Ireland
Mai-Dun
Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: John Wilson.- Halle.
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Only Connect
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Frédéric Chopin
Grande valse brilliante in E flat, Op 18
Performer: Arthur Rubinstein.- RCA.
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Only Connect
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William Byrd
Fantasia a 5 ‘two in one’
Ensemble: Fretwork.- Virgin.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Battle on the Ice (Alexander Nevsky)
Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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Benjamin Dale
Prunella
Performer: Danny Driver.- Hyperion.
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Hector Berlioz
Sanctus (Grand messe des morts)
Singer: Léopold Simoneau. Choir: New England Conservatory Chorus. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.- RCA Living Stereo.
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George Frideric Handel
Chaconne, HWV 435
Performer: Annie Fischer (piano).- MELO CLASSIC.
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Sonata No 4 in C
Performer: Pavel Hromadka (oboe). Performer: Dusan Foltyn (trumpet). Performer: Tomas Thon (organ).- MELO CLASSIC.
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John Foulds
A World Requiem (end of part 1)
Singer: Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet. Singer: Catherine Wyn-Rogers. Singer: Stuart Skelton. Singer: Gerald Finley. Choir: Trinity Boys Choir. Choir: Crouch End Festival Chorus. Choir: Philharmonia Chorus. Choir: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leon Botstein.- Chandos.
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Max Reger
Siegesfeier, Op 145 No 7
Performer: Roger Judd (organ).- HERALD.
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Frank Bridge
Piano Sonata
Performer: Ashley Wass.- Naxos.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No 58 in F
Performer: Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. Performer: Dennis Russell Davies (conductor).- SONY.
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Only Connect
The connection was: Battles.
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The music played:
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Steffe (Lyrics Julia Ward Howe)
Battle hymn of the republic
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
SONY MDK 48294Ìý ÌýÌý
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Biber
Battalia
The Purcell Quartet (and friends)
CHANDOS CHAN0605Ìý
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Prokofiev
Battle on the Ice (Alexander Nevsky)
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 419 603 2ÌýÌý
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