Music in the Great War: Rob Cowan with Jay Winter
With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Volodos plays Mompou; Brainteaser: Back to the Beginning; Historian Jay Winter; Rob's Essential Choice: Chadwick: Tam O'Shanter.
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
Chadwick
Ballade: Tam O'Shanter
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor).
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Music Played
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Leroy Anderson
Bugler's Holiday
Orchestra: Boston Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Arthur Fiedler.- DG.
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CPE Bach
Symphony in C, Wq 182 No 3
Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.- Archiv.
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Federico Mompou
El lago (Paisajes No 2)
Performer: Arcadi Volodos.- Sony.
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Hector Berlioz
Royal Hunt and Storm (The Trojans)
Choir: Beecham Choral Society. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Beecham.- EMI.
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Back to the beginning
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Benjamin Britten
Soir茅es musicales, Op 9
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.- First Hand Records.
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Franz Schubert
2 German Dances and 2 Landler, D618
Performer: Christoph Eschenbach. Performer: Justus Frantz.- EMI.
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Julius Fucik
Entry of the Gladiators
Orchestra: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Erich Kunzel.- Telarc.
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Gabriel Faur茅
Pavane, Op 50
Performer: Toulouse Capitole Orchestra. Performer: Michel Plasson (conductor).- EMI.
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Richard Wagner
Rienzi Overture
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.- Sony.
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Ireland
Fantasy-Sonata
Performer: Michael Collins (clarinet). Performer: Michael McHale (piano).- CHANDOS.
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Enrique Granados
Intermezzo (Goyescas)
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.- RCA.
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John Philip Sousa
US Field Artillery
Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.- Mercury Living Presence.
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George M. Cohan
Over There
Singer: Enrico Caruso. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Josef Pasternack. -
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Bacchanale (Samson et Dalilah, Act III)
Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.- Sony.
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Igor Stravinsky
Polka (Suite No 2 for small orchestra
Performer: Basel Chamber Orchestra. Performer: Christopher Hogwood (conductor).- ARTE NOVA.
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George Whitefield Chadwick
Ballade: Tam O鈥橲hanter
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- Chandos.
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Don Juan (finale)
Performer: English Baroque Soloists. Performer: John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).- APEX.
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Niccol貌 Paganini
Violin Concerto No 2 in B minor, Op 7 (La campanella)
Performer: Ivry Gitlis (violin). Performer: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Stanislaw Wislocki (conductor).- DECCA.
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Back to the Beginning
The music played:
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Fucik
Entry of the Gladiators
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Erich Kunzel (conductor)
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