One thousand years of classical music. The music from series one.
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The Making of Music
James Naughtie traces the history of 1000 years of classical music and explores its historical context.
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Radio 3 follows up each edition of The Making of Music with an hour of music related to that edition.
Episode Guide - Week 1: 4 to 8 June 2007
Monday Programme 1.
Origins - The beginnings of music in the churches and monasteries
It was in the churches and monasteries of the Christian world, from Constantinople in the East to Iona in Scotland, the building blocks of classical music were formed. These places were the crucibles of cultural and intellectual life - and, as we'll discover, classical music has always been bound up with the centres of power.
Music from this edition
Chant: Puer natus est nobis
Artists: The Sixteen/Conductor, Harry Christophers
Christmas Music Hyperion CDA66263 Track 1
Bach: "O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden"
Artists: Desden Chamber Choir (Chorus-master: Hans-Christoph Rademann)/Cologne Cathedral Boys' Choir (Chorus-master: Eberhard Metternich)/Cologne Chamber Orchestra/Conductor, Helmut Müller-Brühl
CD title: Bach St. Matthew Passion Naxos 8.550832-34, CD 3 Track 2
Beethoven: Eroica Symphony
BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Conductor, Joseph Swensen
Wagner: beginning of Prelude:
Artists: Staatsorchester Stuttgart/Conductor, Lothar Zagrosek
CD title: Das Rheingold Naxos 8.660170-71 CD1 Track 1
Pärt: Magnificat: Arvo Pärt - Magnificat Antiphons etc.
Artists: Polyphony/Andrew Lucas (organ)/Conductor, Stephen Layton.
Hyperion CDA66960 Track 17
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Tuesday Programme 2.
Notre Dame - The first named composers
Notre Dame in Paris was consecrated in 1163. Paris was then the centre of the known world, where the scholastic thought was concentrated. The Catholic church wanted a huge building that praised God, and demonstrated its earthly power.
As Notre Dame was being built, two men were writing the music that would fill it. They are the first named composers to come out of history, and their music still survives. Their names are Perotin and his pupil Leonin.
Music From This edition
Léonin: Viderunt omnes: Sacred.
Artists: Tonus Peregrinus.
CD title:Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral Naxos CD 8.557340 Tracks 9.
Perotin: Viderunt Omnes.
Artists: Tonus Peregrinus.
CD title:Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral Naxos CD 8.557340 Track 23.
Perotin: Sederunt Principles.
Artists: Tonus Peregrinus.
CD title:Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral Naxos CD 8.557340 Track 31.
Anon: Vetus abit littera.
Artists: Tonus Peregrinus.
CD title:Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral Naxos CD 8.557340 Track 32
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Wednesday Programme 3.
Troubadours - travelling musicians wrote and played secular music in court.
Across Europe in courts and great houses, music was beginning to celebrate the human as well as the divine. The songs of musician composers like Bernard de Ventadorn speak of sadness and ecstasy, jealously and betrayal. The popular entertainers of their time, troubadours travelled extensively: music was on the move
Music From This edition
Cadenet: San'c fuy belha ni prezada (If before I was beautiful).
Artists: Sinfonye/Director, Stevie Wishart.
CD title: The Courts of Love: Music from the time of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Hyperion:CDA 66367 track 9
Bernart de Ventadorn: Can vei la lauzeta mover (When I see the lark beating its wings)
Artists: Paul Hillier (baritone, medieval harp)/ Stephen Stubbs (medieval lute)/Lena-Liis Kiesel (portative organ)
CD title:Troubadour Songs and Medieval Lyrics, Hyperion: CDA 66094 track 5 intro and verse 1
Raimbaut de Vaqueiras: Kalenda Maia ni fueills de faia (neither May Day nor beech leaves)
Artists: Sinfonye/Director, Stevie Wishart
CD title:The Courts of Love: Music from the time of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Hyperion:CDA 66367 track 2
Bernart de Ventadorn: Can l'erba fresch'e ih folha par (When the fresh grass and leaf appear)
Artists: Paul Hillier (baritone, medieval harp) Stephen Stubbs (medieval lute) Lena-Liis Kiesel (portative organ)
CD title:Troubadour Songs and Medieval, Lyrics Hyperion: CDA 66094 track 2
Gace Brulé: Quant voi renverdir (When I see the greening)
Artists: Sinfonye/Director, Stevie Wishart
CD title: The Courts of Love: Music from the time of Eleanor of Aquitaine,
Hyperion:CDA 66367 track 14
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Thursday Programme 4.
Burgundy - The lavish court of Burgundy produced music that influenced the world.
Under its Duke, Philip The Good, Burgundy in the fifteenth century became a powerful centre of culture and music. His rich and stylish court funded the great musicians Dufay and Binchois. But they were influenced by an Englishman - John Dunstable. His style was imitated even in the great court of Burgundy, giving their music 'an English countenance'
Music From This edition
Dufay: Adieu ces bons vins de Lannoys
Artists: Gothic Voices/Director Christopher Page.
CD Title: The Garden of Zephirus (15th century courtly songs) Hyperion CDA66144 track 13
Dufay: Las que feray? Ne que je devenray?
Artists: Gothic Voices/Director, Christopher Page
CD Title: The Medieval Romantics - French songs and motets 1340-1440 Hyperion CDA 66463 track 15
Dunstable: Speciosa facta es
Artists: Gothic Voices/Director Christopher Page
CD Title: The Service of Venus and Mars. Hyperion CDA 66238 track 13.
Dufay: Supremum est mortalibus bonum.
Artists: Oxford Camerata/ Jeremy Summerly
CD title: Missa L'homme armé. Naxos CD 8.553087 track10.
Binchois: Nove cantum melodie.
Artists: The Binchois Consort/ Andrew Kirkman
CD Title: Dufay Mass for St Anthony Abbott Binchois Motets. Hyperion CDA 67474 track 15.
Dufay: Ave regina celorum.
Artists: Binchois Consort/ Andrew Kirkman
CD Title: Dufay Missa Puisque je vis. Hyperion CDA 67368 track 10
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Friday Programme 5.
The Renaissance - Composers gave sound as much lustre and vigour as you'd find in sculpture and painting
In Ferrara in Italy, Duke Ecole d'Este I was ambitious. He built a city with a citadel in the shape of a perfect pentagram. A Renaissance man, he wanted the most celebrated composers of the age to come there to work for him. Josquin Desprez - so famous he is known only by his first name - wrote a mass that immortalized his patron. Missa Hercules dux Ferrariae was based on the syllables of historic Dukes first name. Man not God was becoming the centre of the world
Music From This edition
Dufay: Nuper Rosarum Flores
BBC Singers/Conductor, Stephen Cleobury
OLN930/99BD9108
Josquin Desprez: Kyrie, Christe, Kyrie from Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae
Artists: A Sei Voci
CD Title: Desprez, Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae Astree E8601 track 4.
Josquin Desprez: Kyrie, Christe, Kyrie from Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae
Artists:New London Chamber Choir/Conducted by James Wood
CD Title: New London Chamber Choir Amon Ra CD-SAR 24 Track 8.
Willaert: Magnificat sexti toni
Artists: Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly
CD Title: Willaert Missa Christus resurgens Naxos CD 8.553211 track 7.
Willaert: Sanctus from Missa Christus Resurgens
Artists: Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly
CD Title: Willaert Missa Christus resurgens Naxos CD 8.553211 track 5.
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Episode Guide - Week 2: 11 to 15 June 2007
Monday Programme 6.
The Reformation - Luther transforms the religious landscape of Europe - and Protestantism developed its own kind of music
Why should the Devil have all the best tunes? When Luther changed the face of religion in Europe, he also changed religious music. He harnessed secular songs to be used as religious songs. His great innovation was to encourage congregational singing - what we'd know as audience participation.
Music from this edition
Luther: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott
BBC Singers/Conductor, Peter Phillips
Luther: Von Himmel kam der Engel Schar
BBC Singers/Conductor, Peter Phillips
Josquin Desprez: Ave Maria:
Artists: Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly
CD: Josquin Missa L'homme armé Naxos CD 8.553428 Track 1
Luther: Wir glauben all an einin Gott
BBC Singers/Conductor, Peter Phillips
Luther: Christ ist erstanden
BBC Singers/Conductor, Peter Phillips
Bach: O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden
Artists: Dresden Chamber Choir (Chorus-master:Hans-Christoph Rademann)/Cologne Cathedral Boys' Choir (Chorus-master: Eberhard Metternich)/Cologne Chamber OrchestraConductor, Helmut Müller-Brühl
CD : Bach St. Matthew Passion Naxos CD 8.550832-34 CD3 Track 2
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Tuesday Programme 7.
The Counter Reformation -The Catholic church responded to the Reformation with the most glorious and soaring music.
In the 1500s Europe had undergone a revolution. Luther's hymns in German were popular - and accessible. The church had to respond. They held a council - The Council of Trent - that lasted 18 years. One of their edicts was about the kind of music to be played in churches. Words needed to be clear and understood. This is the story of a composer - Palestrina - who became embroiled by accident in the politics of the high church.
Music From This edition
Luther - Ein fest Burg ist unser Gott
BBC Singers/Conductor, Peter Phillips
Palestrina: Kyrie from Missa Papae Marcelli
Artists: Westminster Cathedral Choir/David Hill
CD: Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli/Missa Brevis Hyperion CDA 66266 track 1.
Palestrina: Sanctus from Missa Papae Marcelli
Artists: Westminster Cathedral Choir/David Hill
CD: Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli/Missa Brevis Hyperion CDA 66266 track 4.
Lassus - Penitential Psalm No 4
Artists: Henry's Eight/Director Jonathan Brown
CD: Lassus Penitential Psalms Hyperion CDD22056 CD2 track 1
Palestrina: Kyrie from Missa Papae Marcelli
Artists: Westminster Cathedral Choir/David Hill
CD: Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli/Missa Brevis Hyperion CDA 66266 track 1.
Lassus: Kyrie from Missa Bell' Amfitrit' altera
Artists: The Choir of Westminster Cathedral (Conductor, James O'Donnell)/His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts (Director, Jeremy West)
CD: Lassus Missa Bell' Amfitrit' altera Helios/Hyperion CDH55212 Track 4
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Wednesday Programme 8.
Venice - this cosmopolitan republic produced music as theatrical as the city itself
In the Serene City, masked balls, processions and gondolas filled the streets with pageantry and colour. It was the crossroads for the world. Inside St Marks, uncle and nephew Andréa and Giovanni Gabrielli wrote music that filled the space. Polychoral music found a natural home here.
Music From This edition
Anon: Trumpet Fanfare Imperiale Seconda
Artists: The King's Consort/ Robert King
CD: Lo Sposalizio Hyperion: CDA 67048 CD2 track 2
A. Gabrieli: Vieni, vieni Himeneo
Artists: The Choir of King's Consort/The King's Consort/ Robert King
CD: Lo Sposalizio Hyperion: CDA 67048 CD1 track 4
G. Gabrieli: kyrie a 12
Artists: The Choir of King's Consort/The King's Consort/ Robert King
CD: Lo Sposalizio Hyperion: CDA 67048 CD2 track 3
G. Gabrieli: Sanctus a 12
Artists: The Choir of King's Consort/The King's Consort/ Robert King
CD: Lo Sposalizio Hyperion: CDA 67048 CD2 track 8
G. Gabrieli: Salvatore noster
Artists: The King's Consort/Robert King
CD: Schutz The Christmas Story and Christmas Motets by G Gabrieli. Hyperion CDA 66398 track 23
Monteverdi: Deus in adiutorium meum intende
Artist: Choir of King's Consort/King's Consort/Robert King
CD: Monteverdi Vespers. Hyperion CDA 67531/2 CD1 track 1
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Thursday Programme 9.
Elizabeth I - English music became one of the glories of the Elizabethan age- even if musicians were the wrong side of the political divide.
Two composers turned the end of the sixteenth century into a golden age for English music. But they were Catholics, the wrong side of the political and religious divide. William Byrd and his teacher Thomas Tallis did for English music what Shakespeare and Marlowe were doing for the theatre. The Queen understood the adornment of music gave to her position. Privately she listened to Byrd's masses in Latin; in public, those in English
Music From This edition
Byrd :O Lord make thy servant Elizabeth
BBC Singers/Peter Phillips
Tallis: With all our heart (from Missa Salve intemerata)
Artists: Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly
CD : Naxos Spem in alium CD 8.557770 track 7.
Byrd: Haec Dies (part of)
Artists: The Choir of Westminster Cathedral/James O'Donnell
CD:Exultate Deo Hyperion CD CDA 66850 track 16
Tallis: Spem in alium (middle bit)
Artists: Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly
CD : Naxos: spem in allium CD 8.557770 track 1.
Tallis: O nata lux de lumine.
Artists: Winchester Cathedral Choir/David Hill
CD: Tallis Spem in alium and other music Hyperion CDA 66400 track 8
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Friday Programme 10.
The Birth of Opera - the inspired marriage of drama and music was born in Italy and travelled the world
Opera was invented by a group of Italian intellectuals called the Camarata in Florence around 1600. They took inspiration from the role models of ancient Greece and Rome - why not tell a story in music? They stumbled across something extraordinary and soon theatres were appearing all over Italy - forty in Venice alone. But it needed a spark of genius to really ignite it -and it came: Monteverdi invented a style.
Music From This edition
Jacopo Peri: Al fonte al prato.
Artists: The Catacoustic Consort
CD: The Italian Dramatic Lament Naxo CD 8.557538 track 2
Caccini: Amarilli.
Artists: The Catacoustic Consort
CD: The Italian Dramatic Lament Naxo CD 8.557538 track 10
Monteverdi: Opening fanfare from
Artists: Cappella Musicale di San Petronio di Bologna/Sergio Vartolo
L'Orfeo CD: Monteverdi L'Orfeo Naxos CD 8 554094/5 CD1 track 1
Monteverdi: Sinfonia at end of act II from L'Orfeo
Artists: Cappella Musicale di San Petronio di Bologna/Sergio Vartolo
CD: Monteverdi L'Orfeo Naxos CD 8 554094/5 CD1 track 13
Monteverdi: Volgendo il ciel (part of a dance for Emperor Ferdinando III) Hyperion
Artists: Red Byrd/The Parley of Instruments, Director, Peter Holman
CD: Balli and Dramatic Madrigals CDA 66475 track 3
Monteverdi: Final Chorus - Vanne Orfeo
Artists: Chorus of the Cappella Musicale di San Petronio and Cappella Musicale di San Petronio/Sergio Vartolo
CD: Monteverdi L'Orfeo Naxos CD 8.554094/95 CD2 track 15
Monteverdi: Moresca CD: Monteverdi L'Orfeo
Artists: Cappella Musicale di San Petronio/Sergio Vartolo
CD: Naxos 8.554094/95 CD2 track 16
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Episode Guide - Week 3: 18 to 22 June 2007
Monday Programme 11.
The Sun King - Louis XIV of France used music to demonstrate his Absolute power
No-one had ever used music quite like Louis XIV of France. His Chief Musician - one might even say propagandist - was an Italian, Lully, who wrote music that glorified the divine Sun King. The spectacle and scale of the court music and ballets was evidence of the Kings supreme power and authority. And in turn, Lully himself, a notorious bisexual and schemer, became rich and powerful. But his musical influence was felt in the centuries to come- Handel's Messiah owes a debt to Lully.
Music from this edition
Lully: Ballet de la Nuit Overture
Artist: Musica Antiqua Köln/ Reinhard Goebel
CD: Le Roi Danse. Deutsche Grammophon 463 446-2 track 5
Lully: Gavotte pour les Satyres (from Ballet des Plaisirs)
Artists: Aradia Baroque Ensemble/ Kevin Mallon
CD: Ballet Music for Sun King Naxos: CD 8.554003 track 31,
Lully: Bourée pour les Coutisans.
Artists: Aradia Baroque Ensemble/ Kevin Mallon
CD: Ballet Music for Sun King Naxos: CD 8.554003 track 35,
Lully: Chaconne des Scaramouches, Frivelins et Arlequins (from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme)
Artists: Aradia Baroque Ensemble/ Kevin Mallon
CD: Ballet Music for Sun King Naxos: CD 8.554003 track 1
Lully: Overture (from Ballet d'Alcidiane et Polexandre)
Artists: Aradia Baroque Ensemble/ Kevin Mallon
CD: Ballet Music for Sun King Naxos: CD 8.554003 track 2,
Handel: Messiah Overture:
Artists: The Sixteen/Conductor, Harry Christophers
CD Handel Messiah Hyperion CDD 22019 CD1 track 1
Lully: In Te, Domine, speravi (from Te Deum)
Artists: Le Concert Spirituel/ directed by Hervé Niquet.
CD: Grand Motets Vol 1. Naxos: CD 8.554397 track 6.
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Tuesday Programme 12.
Violins - The marriage of the improvement in violin making and composer Vivaldi took the violin to new heights.
In Cremona in Italy around 1700 a family of craftsmen and their apprentices perfected an instrument. Today, a violin from the Golden period of Antonio Stradivari can fetch millions. One composer took this instrument and showed the world what it could do. Vivaldi wrote 500 solo concertos and established the three movement form that would become the standard. The foregrounding of the violin changed the sound of classical music in the future.
Music From This edition
Vivaldi: Allegro (from Concerto No 10 in B minor)
Artist: Capella Istropolitana/Conductor, Jozef Kopelman
CD: Vivaldi L'Estro Armonico. Naxos CD:8.550160 track 18.
Vivaldi: Largo from Violin Concerto in C minor, RV761
Artists: Catherine Mackintosh (violin) The King's Consort/ director Robert King.
CD: Vivaldi The Four Seasons etc. Hyperion CDA 66339 track 17
Corelli: Allegro from Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 8 in G minor - the Christmas Concerto.
Artists: The Brandenburg Consort/directed from the violin by Roy Goodman
CD: Corelli Concerti Grossi op 6. Hyperion: CDA 66741/2 CD2 track 7.
Vivaldi: Allegro (from Concerto No 10 in B minor)
Artist: Capella Istropolitana/Conductor, Jozef Kopelman
CD: Vivaldi L'Estro Armonico. Naxos CD:8.550160 track 18.
Vivaldi: Allegro from Winter (Four Seasons)
Artists: Catherine Mackintosh (violin) The King's Consort/Director, Robert King
CD: Vivaldi The Four Seasons.Hyperion CDA 66339 track 12
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Wednesday Programme 13.
Puritans - organs were smashed in the churches, but in private houses, music flourished
When Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protectorate of England, after the execution of Charles I, part of the culture he confronted was music that had celebrated the King. He might have wanted to sweep that music away, but it wasn't so simple.
Although he sent his 'Parliamentary Visitor' William Dowsing to smash up the organs in churches, privately he employed the ex-musicians of the King - like Mathew Locke - to write for the new regime.
Music From This edition
William Lawes: Corant (from The Royall Consort)
Artists: Elizabeth Kenny (lute)/William Carter (theorbo)/ Frances Kelly (double harp)
CD: Songs by Henry and William Lawes. Hyperion CDA 67589 track 10
Henry Lawes: A Pastoral Elegie: Cease you jolly shepherds
Artists: Rebecca Outram (soprano)/Robin Blaze (countertenor)/Robert MacDonald (bass)/Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo)/William Carter (lute)/Frances Kelly (double harp)
CD: Songs by Henry and William Lawes. Hyperion CDA 67589 track 27
Henry Lawes: The Lark - 'Swift through the yielding air'.
Artists: Emma Kirkby (soprano) Anthony Rooley (lute)
CD:Sitting by the Streams. Hyperion: CDA 66135 track 2.
Henry Lawes: Anacreon's Ode call'd The Lute
Artists: Emma Kirkby (soprano)/Anthony Rooley (theorbo-lute)
CD: Classical Kirkby (Orpheus and Corinna) BIS-CD-1435 track 4.
Matthew Locke: Saraband from Suite in D major for 2 bass viols No 2
Artists: The Parley of Instruments/Director, Peter Holman
CD: Matthew Locke 'The Broken Consort' Helios/Hyperion CDH 55255 track 28
Matthew Locke: For His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts - Pavan-Almand (reprise).
Artists: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts
CD: For His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts Hyperion CDA 66894 track 31
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Thursday Programme 14.
Restoration - The return of Charles II music was revitalised - and began to be heard in public spaces and gardens.
The return of the King from exile in 1660 was the signal for a great noise.
But the country he came back to wasn't settled: war with the Dutch, plague and the Great Fire of London. Charles II knew the power of music to uplift the spirit. Luckily for him, a great composer was emerging who would help him do just that. Henry Purcell wrote his first song for the King's 40th birthday when he was just 11. Purcell saw a reviving of English music, although with French influence - violins which were all the rage in France were now prominent.
Music began to be heard in gardens and public places.
Music From This edition
Locke: Be Thou exalted Lord.
Artists: Choir of New College, Oxford/The Parley of Instruments/Conducted by Edward Higginbottom.
CD: Anthems, Motets and the Oxford Ode: Hyperion CDA 66373 Track 8.
Purcell: Quintet from Fly, bold rebellion.
Artists: Michael George (bass)/The King's Consort/Director, Robert King
CD: Complete odes and welcome songs Vol 3. Hyperion CDA 66412 track 2
Purcell: Symphony from Sound the trumpet, beat the drum.
Artists: The King's Consort/Director, Robert King
CD: Complete odes and welcome songs Vol 3. Hyperion CDA 66412 track 9
Purcell: When I am laid in earth from 'Dido's Lament'
Artists: Gillian Fisher (soprano)/The King's Consort/Director, Robert King
CD: Essential Purcell Hyperion CD King 2 Track 5.
Purcell: When I am laid in earth from 'Dido's Lament'
Artists: Kym Amps (soprano)/The Scholars Baroque Ensemble
CD: A-Z of Opera Naxos 8.555037-38 CD1 Track 2.
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Friday Programme 15.
Bach in Leipzig - As a civil employee, Bach composed sublime organ music for the congregations of Leipzig.
Bach worked for Princes, churches and for the last 27 years of his life - a city - Leipzig. He taught school students, composed music for the churches and was involved in the petty beauracies and jealousy of the city council. Nevertheless, under the demanding city council it is said he wrote a cantata a week - 300 in his time in Leipzig alone. Not fully appreciated in his lifetime, it took subsequent generations to see where this provincial musician had taken sacred music.
Music From This edition
Bach: Komm, Heiliger Geist Herre Gott BWV.651.
Artist: Christopher Herrick (organ)
CD: The Complete Organ Music Hyperion CDS 44121/36 CD10 track 7
Bach: Prelude in B major, BWV.868
Artist: Angela Hewitt (piano)
CD: Bach Well-Tempered Clavier book 1 Hyperion CDA 67301/2 CD2 track 21
Bach: Coffee Cantata, BWV.211
Artists: Ingrid Kertesi (soprano); Jozsef Mukk (tenor); István Gáti (bass); Failoni Chamber Orchestra, Budapest; conductor, Mátyás Antal.
CD: Cantatas BWV.211-212 Naxos CD 8.550641 track 10 (end of)
Bach: Allegro from Brandenburg Concerto No.6 in B flat major, BWV.1051
Artists: The Brandenburg Consort directed by Roy Goodman
CD Bach Brandenburg Concertos 4, 5, 6 Hyperion CDA 66612 Track 9.
Bach: 'Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine' from St John Passion.
Artists The Scholars Baroque Ensemble
CD2: J.S. Bach: St. John Passion Naxos 8.550664-5 Track 25.
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Episode Guide - Week 4: 25 to 29 June 2007
Monday Programme 16.
Bach's St Mathew's Passion - A tune that Bach inherited from his Lutheran processors, a dance and a love song, which he turned it into a recurring choral theme that had a profound effect on the history of music.
Used by the church on Good Friday the subject was the Passion of Christ: the journey is from last supper through the arrest, trial and crucifixion. Solemn church music but with operatic tension, Bach gives the characters of the Passion human dimension. He brings the sacred and the secular together.
Music from this edition
Bach:Erkenne mich, mein Hüter.
Artists: Dresden Chamber Choir (Chorus-master: Hans-Christoph Rademann)/ Cologne Cathedral Boys' Choir (Chorus-master Eberhand Metternich)/Cologne Chamber Orchestra/Conductor Helmut Müller-Brühl.
CD: Bach St Matthew Passion Naxos CD 8.557617-19 CD1 track 15.
Bach: Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen.
Artists: Dresden Chamber Choir (Chorus-master: Hans-Christoph Rademann)/ Cologne Cathedral Boys' Choir (Chorus-master Eberhand Metternich)/ Cologne Chamber Orchestra/Conductor Helmut Müller-Brühl/Claudia Couwenbergh (soprano).
CD: Bach St Matthew Passion Naxos CD 8.557617-19 CD1 track 1.
Bach: Sind Blitze, sind Donner in Wolken verschwunden.
Artists: Dresden Chamber Choir (Chorus-Master Hans-Christoph Rademann)/Cologne Cathedral Boys' Choir (Chorus-master: Eberhand Metternich)/ Cologne Chamber Orchestra/ Conductor Helmut Müller-Brühl.
CD: Bach St Matthew Passion Naxos CD 8.557617-19 CD1 track 27b.
Bach: Erbarme dich
Artists: Cologne Chamber Orchestra/ Conductor Helmut Müller-Brühl / Marianne Beate Kielland (alto).
CD: Bach St Matthew Passion Naxos CD 8.557617-19 CD2 track 10.
Bach: Mache dich, mein Herze, rein.
Artists: Cologne Chamber Orchestra/Conductor Helmut Müller-Brühl/ Hanno Müller-Brachmann (bass).
CD: Bach St Matthew Passion Naxos CD 8.557617-19 CD3 track 13.
Bach: Wir setzen uns mit Tränen nieder.
Artists: Dresden Chamber Choir (Chorus-master Hans-Christoph Rademann)/Cologne Cathedral Boys' Choir (Chorus-master Eberhand Metternich)/ Cologne Chamber Orchestra/Conductor,Helmut Müller-Brühl.
CD: Bach St Matthew Passion Naxos CD 8.557617-19 CD3 track 16.
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Tuesday Programme 17.
Handel - He fed a public hungry for music, increasing heard in public concerts..
A German who settled in England, under a Hanovian King - Handel wrote music we now think of as quintessentially English. The Messiah, the Water Music and Zadok the Priest - still played at every monarch's coronation.
Handel's gift was to feed a hungry public. Concerts were becoming big business. You might say, he discovered a middle class audience for music. Later in his career when the public passion for his operas were fading, he wrote the oratorios that he is best known for - and the crucial thing was they were written in English. These pieces became the foundation of the English choral tradition.
Music From This edition
Handel: Hallelujah Chorus (from Messiah)
Artists: The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra/Conductor, Harry Christophers.
CD: Handel Messiah Hyperion CDD22019 CD2 Track 21
Handel: Alla Hornpipe from Suite No.2 in D, HWV.349 (from Water Music)
Artists: Aradia Ensemble/Director, Kevin Mallon.
CD Handel Water Music/Music for the Royal Fireworks Naxos CD 8.557764 Track 10
Handel: Cara sposa (Rinaldo)
Artists: James Bowman (countertenor)/The King's Consort/Director, Robert King.
CD: Handel Heroic Arias Hyperion CDA66483 Track 10.
Handel: See the conquering hero comes (from Judas Maccabaeus)
Artists: Choir of New College, Oxford (Director, Edward Higginbottom)/The King's Consort/Conductor, Robert King.
CD: Handel Judas Maccabaeus Hyperion CDA 66641/2 CD2 Track 19
Handel: La Réjouissance (from Fireworks Music).
Artists: Aradia Ensemble/Director, Kevin Mallon.
CD Handel Water Music/Music for the Royal Fireworks Naxos CD 8.557764 Track 21
Handel: Zadok the Priest
Artists: Choir of the King's Consort/ The King's Consort/Conductor, Robert King.
CD: The Coronation of King George II/ Hyperion CDA 67286 CD1 Track 16
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Wednesday Programme 18.
Rameau and the philosophes
In the 1750s there was a battle of ideas and music was caught up in the middle of it. It became known as The Battle of the Buffoons, or Fools, and it took place in the Paris opera house. Every member of the intelligentsia was on one side or another , even the King and Queen of France, who disagreed. Jean Phillipe Rameau who wrote French opera was associated with the old aristocratic order. The reformers favoured Italian opera with its new ideas of enlightened monarchy.
The dispute at the opera house went on for two years - at one stage, the pro-Italians occupied the orchestra pit and the King had to send in troops to disperse them. Music became a cipher for deeper political arguments of the day.
Music From This edition
Rameau: Fra le pupille (from les indes galantes).
Artists: Ex Cathedra/conductor, Jeffrey Skidmore / Carolyn Sampson (Soprano).
CD: Rameau regne amour: love songs from the operas. Hyperion CDA 67447 track 1.
Rameau: Tempete: La nuit couvre les cieux! (from Les Indes galantes)
Artists: Ex Cathedra/conductor, Jeffrey Skidmore / Carolyn Sampson (Soprano).
CD title as above. Hyperion CDA 67447 track 5.
Rameau: Soleil, fuis de ces lieux! (from plate).
Artists: Ex Cathedra/conductor, Jeffrey Skidmore / Carolyn Sampson (Soprano).
CD title as above. Hyperion CDA 67447 track 7.
Rameau: Regnez, Amour (from les Indes galantes).
Artists: Ex Cathedra/conductor, Jeffrey Skidmore / Carolyn Sampson (Soprano).
CD title as above. Hyperion CDA 67447 track 4.
Rameau: Premiere et deuxieme contredanse (from abaris ou les boreades).
Artists: Capella savaria/conductor Mary Teret-Smith.
CD: Rameau orchestral suites. Naxos CD 8.553388 track 22.
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Thursday Programme 19.
Music and Society - Music was entering the drawing rooms of the rich, and more people than ever were playing and composing music.
In the late 1700s in provincial towns such as Bath and Oxford, music was entering the public assembly rooms and drawings rooms of the wealthy. People would gather to play cards, talk, dance, gossip and hear music. It was a badge of civilisation - young ladies of accomplishment would learn to play the piano as well as draw and sew. Women not only played, but composed music.
After 1780, the square piano would replace the harpsichord in private houses. In 1748, the Holly Well music room opened, the first purpose built concert hall in Europe - paid for by public subscription.
Music From This edition
Thomas Linley Jnr: Rondeau from the Overture to the Duenna.
Artists:The Parley of Instruments/Directed from the harpsichord by Paul Nicholson.
CD: Linley Music for the Tempest - Three Cantatas. Hyperion CDA 66767 track 10.
Arne: The Soldier, tir'd of War's Alarms (from Artaxerxes).
Artists: Catherine Bott (soprano)/The Parley of Instruments (Musical Director Peter Holman)/Conductor, Roy Goodman.
CD Thomas Arne: Artaxerxes Hyperion CDA 67051/2 CD2 Track 23.
Storace: The Curfew.
Artists: Emma Kirkby (soprano) Frances Kelly (harp).
CD: O tuneful Voice. Hyperion CDA 66497 track 4.
Thomas Linley Jnr: Let God arise.
Artists: Holst Singers (Director, Stephen Layton)/The Parley of Instruments/Conductor, Peter Holman.
CD Linley The Song of Moses - Let God Arise Hyperion CDA 67038 track 17.
Thomas Linley Jnr: Arise! ye spirits of the storm (from Music for the Tempest).
Artists: The Parley of Instruments Baroque Orchestra and Choir (director Peter Holman)/Directed from the harpsichord by Paul Nicholson.
CD: Linley Music for the Tempest - Three Cantatas. Hyperion CDA 66767 track 1.
John Field: Rondo from Sonata in E flat major, Op. 1 No 1.
Artist: Benjamin Frith (piano).
CD: Field Piano Music Volume 1 Naxos 8.550761Track 7
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Friday Programme 20.
Haydn and the Esterhazys - the fabulously rich Esterhazy family employed Haydn, and their demands for new music encouraged his productivity.
The Esterhazys of Hungary were an aristocratic family. Their lifelong employment of one musician and composer gave him the security to write a body of music that helped develop the symphony and string quartet. Joseph Haydn was employed and kept in magnificent isolation largely at the Esterhazy summer palace. He himself said, ' I was cut off from the world…and forced to become original.'
Music From This edition
Haydn: String Quartet op 71 no 2 (1st movement).
Artist: The Salomon String Quartet.
CD: Haydn String Quartets. Hyperion CDA 66065 track 5.
Haydn: String Quartet op 71 no 2 (1st movement).
Artist: The Salomon String Quartet.
CD: Haydn String Quartets. Hyperion CDA 66065 track 5.
Haydn: Adagio from the Finale of Symphony no 45 in F# minor "Farewell".
Artists: Capella Istropolitana, Conductor, Barry Wordsworth.
CD: Haydn Symphonies Nos. 45, 48 and 102. Naxos CD 8.550382 track 4.
Haydn: 1st movt. From Symphony No.48 in C major "Maria Theresia".
Artist: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Conductor, Ilan Volkov.
PGW441/04SA1602
Haydn: String Quartet op 71 no 2 (2nd movement).
Artist: The Salomon String Quartet.
CD: Haydn String Quartets Hyperion CDA 66065 track 6.
Haydn: Creation - The Heavens are telling the glory of God.
Artists: Sunhae Im (soprano)/Jan Kobow (tenor)/Hanno Müller-Brachmann (bass)/VokalEnsemble Köln/Capella Augustina/Artistic Director, Andreas Spering.
Naxos: CD 8.557380-81 CD1 track 14.
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Episode Guide - Week 5: 2 to 6 July 2007
Monday Programme 21.
Mozart -Despite commercial and pressures of money, Mozart's genius surpassed his circumstances.
When Mozart was born, composers had patrons but by the end of his short life that had changed. The world of feudalism was passing away - he benefited and suffered because of the independence and insecurity the new world gave him.
He found it difficult to get subscriptions for his string quartets because his opera Don Giovanni's opening night had been a bit of a flop.
Music from this edition
Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus K.616
BBC Concert Orchestra/BBC Singers/Conductor, Stephen Cleobury
OLN924/99BD9076
Mozart: Piano Concerto in B flat major K.595 - 3rd movement Allegro
Artists: Jenö Jandó (piano)/Concentus Hungaricus/Conductor, András Ligeti
CD: Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 9 and 27 Naxos 8.550203 track 6.
Mozart: Haffner Symphony no 35 in D K.385 1st movement.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Conductor, Osmo Vanska
OGW839/98SA1586
Mozart: Soave sia il vento from Act 1 of Cosě fan tutte
Artists: Joanna Borowska(mezzo-soprano)/Rohangiz Yachmi (soprano)/Peter Mikulaš (bass)/Capella Istropolitana/Conductor, Johannes Wildner
CD:Mozart Cosě fan tutte Naxos 8.660008-10 track 19.
Mozart: Lacrimosa from Requiem.
Artists: GewandhausKammerchor/Leipziger Kammerorchester/Conductor, Morten Schuldt-Jensen
CD: Mozart Requiem Naxos 8.557728 track 10
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Tuesday Programme 22.
Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.
Europe was shaking; France was on the brink of revolution and even in Austria, the tremors were felt. The play that The Marriage of Figaro was based on was banned by Louis XVI of France. The story of a count being humiliated and exposed by his servant, Figaro, was as Napoleon said, 'the revolution in action.'
Music From This edition
Mozart: Opening of overture.
Artistes: Hungarian State Opera Orchestra/Conductor, Pier Giorgio Morandi
CD: The Marriage of Figaro (Highlights) Naxos CD 8.554172 track 1.
Mozart: Non so piů cosa son.
Artists: Ingrid Kertesi (soprano)/ Hungarian State Opera Orchestra/Conductor, Pier Giorgio Morandi
CD: The Marriage of Figaro (Highlights) Naxos CD 8.554172 track 6
Mozart: Aprite un po' quegl'occhi.
Artists: Natale De Carolis (baritone)/ Hungarian State Opera Orchestra/Conductor, Pier Giorgio Morandi
CD: The Marriage of Figaro (Highlights) Naxos CD 8.554172 track 19.
Mozart: Deh vieni, non tardar
Artists: Patrizia Pace (soprano)/ Hungarian State Opera Orchestra/Conductor, Pier Giorgio Morandi
CD: The Marriage of Figaro (Highlights) Naxos CD 8.554172 track 21
Mozart: Final Scene: Gente! Gente! CD:The Marriage of Figaro (Highlights).
Artists: Roberto Frontali (baritone)/Natale De Carolis (baritone)/József Mukk (tenor)/Tamás Bátor (bass)/ Patrizia Pace (soprano)/Csilla Ötvös (soprano)/ Ingrid Kertesi (soprano)/Maria Pia Ionata (soprano)/Judith Németh (soprano)/Donato di Stefano (bass)/ Hungarian State Opera Orchestra/Conductor, Pier Giorgio Morandi
CD: Naxos 8.554172 track 23
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Wednesday Programme 23.
Three French Revolution - Inspired by the revolution, new music was written to stir the troops and proclaim the Republic.
One night in April 1792, a young French captain spent a night writing a marching tune. Austrian and Prussian troops were in Paris, and the three year old revolution needed inspiration. The result was La Mariseillaise. Soon it was the national anthem being played in every theatre before the curtain went up.
But Napoleon banned it - its sound too revolutionary for an Emperor.
Music From This edition
Rouget de L'Isle&Gossec: La Marseillaise
Artists: Tibčre Raffali (tenor)/Edwige Perfetti (soprano)/Orchestre d’Harmonie des Gardiens de la Paix de Paris/Chorale A Chśur Joie La Gondoire.
CD: Musique & Révolution
Musifrance 245 005-2 CD1 Track 3.
Méhul - Le Chant du Départ CD: Musique & Révolution
Artists: Tibčre Raffali (tenor)/Edwige Perfetti (soprano)/Orchestre d’Harmonie des Gardiens de la Paix de Paris/Chorale Populaire de Paris.
Musifrance 245 005-2 CD 2 Track 1
Gossec - Te Deum CD: Musique & Révolution
Artists:Orchestre d’Harmonie des Gardiens de la Paix de Paris/Chśur de l’Armée Française
Musifrance 245 005-2 CD 1 Track 12
Gossec - Le Chant du 14 Juillet
Artists: Orchestre d’Harmonie des Gardiens de la Paix de Paris/Chśur de l’Armée Française
CD: Musique & Révolution Musifrance 245 005-2 CD 1 Track 1
Cherubini – L’Hymne du Panthéon
Artists: Orchestre d’Harmonie des Gardiens de la Paix de Paris/Chśur de l’Armée Française
CD: Musique & Révolution Musifrance 245 005-2
CD 2 Track 15.
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Thursday Programme 24.
Beethoven - working at a time of huge change, aged 19 at the time of the French Revolution, you could hear the ferment of the times in his music.
Beethoven worked at a time of seismic shifts in Europe.
When his first version of Fidelio was staged in 1805 in Vienna, in the first scene, prisoners emerge blinking into the sunlight. In the audience were members of the occupying French army. It was an uncomfortable evening.
Beethoven was 19 years old at the beginning of the French revolution, and at the peak of his powers when Napoleon invaded Vienna. His music matches the ferment of the times.
Music From This edition
Beethoven: Prisoner's Chorus 'O welche Lust' from Fidelio
Artists: Hungarian Radio Chorus (Chorus Master: Kálmán Strausz)/Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Conductor, Michael Halász
CD: Beethoven Fidelio (Highlights) Naxos 8.557892 track 8.
Beethoven: Opening of Sonata No.29 in B flat major, Op. 106 'Hammerklavier'
Artist: Jenö Jandó (piano)
CD: Beethoven Piano Sonatas Vol. 9 Naxos 8.550234 track 5
Beethoven: Opening of Sonata No.21 in C Op. 53 'Waldstein'
Artist: Jenö Jandó (piano)
CD: Beethoven Piano Sonatas Naxos 8.550054 track 1.
Beethoven: String Quartet in F, Op 59 No.1'Razumovsky' - last movement.
Artists: Kodály Quartet
CD title: Beethoven String Quartets (Complete) Vol.4 Naxos CD 8.554181 track 4.
Beethoven: Quartet in C sharp minor op 131 opening adagio.
Artists: New Budapest Quartet
CD: Beethoven String Quartets Op.74, 131 Hyperion CDA 66405 track 5.
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 in D minor, Op.125 'Choral' - last movement
Artists:Hasmik Papian (soprano)/Ruxandra Donose (mezzo-soprano)/Manfred Fink (tenor)/Claudio Otelli (bass-baritone)/Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia and Chorus/Conductor, Béla Drahos
CD: Beethoven Symphony No.9 "Choral" Naxos 8.553478 track 4.
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Friday Programme 25.
Beethoven's Eroica.
The Eroica, as well as being a profound piece of music, is also a political comment - revealing Beethoven's own disillusion with those in power who cannot remain uncorrupted. He originally dedicated it to Napoleon, but when in 1804, Napoleon declared himself Emperor, his name was scratched off the manuscript so roughly, presumably by Beethoven himself, that there remains a hole in the paper.
Music From This edition
Beethoven Album title: Symphonies Nos 3 & 8
Artist:: CSR Symphony Orchestra, Zagreb Philharmonic / Michaerl Halasz / Richard Edlinger/. Publisher: 1988 HNH International Ltd. Track 1
NAXOS 8.550178. Track title:Symphony no 3 in E flat major op 55 EROICA. Track 1
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Episode Guide - Week 6: 9 to 13 July 2007
Monday Programme 26.
Schubert and the piano - Vienna 1820s. The piano announces the nineteenth century
As the piano became mass manufactured and improved in quality, Schubert gave the piano personality. He turned the piano into an instrument for the voice.
Although he didn't hear many of his symphonies performed in his lifetime, his piano pieces were the lifeblood of a new kind of music making. The well-to-do of Vienna would have piano evenings in their homes - later called Schubertiads in his honour. As public clubs and societies were being disbanded for fear of political fervent, the home became the safe place for music. Schubert wrote more than 600 songs and perfected the art-song - the coming together of music and poetry.
Music from this edition
Schubert: Opening 1st Movement (String Quintet in C Major, D956)
Artists: The Raphael Ensemble
CDSchubert String Quintet D.956 - String Trio, D471.Hyperion CDA66724 Track 2
Schubert: Fantasie in F minor D.940
Artists: Rico Gulda/Christopher Hinterhuber (pianos)
CD Schubert Piano Works for Four Hands Naxos CD 8.555930 track 15.
Schubert: Das Wandern (from Die schöne Müllerin).
Artists: Ian Bostridge (tenor)/Graham Johnson (piano)
Hyperion CD CDJ 33025 track 2.
Schubert: Erlkönig D.328
Artists: Christine Schäfer (soprano)/John Mark Ainsley (tenor)/Michael George (bass)/Graham Johnson (piano)
CD A Goethe Schubertiad Hyperion CDJ 33024 track 11.
Schubert: Impromptu in G flat major Op. 90 D.899 CD: Schubert Impromptus (Complete)
Artist: Jenö Jandó (piano)
Naxos CD 8.550260 track 3.
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Tuesday Programme 27.
Weber and German Romanticism -Weber develops a German sensibility
In 1820s, Carl Maria Von Weber gave German audiences what they wanted: storms and disasters; wild beasts and blood. Like the Gothic novels popular in England, Weber's opera fed a taste for the exotic and the untamed. Although German unification was a generation away, Weber developed a German sensibility. In the re-telling of folk tales, audiences sensed a spirit they thought of as their own.
Music From This edition
Weber: Der Freischütz - Overture
Artist: BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Conductor, Grant Llewellyn.
PCF422/03CA4843
Weber: Der Freischütz - The Huntsmen's Chorus. CD: German Operatic Choruses.
Artists: Slovak Philharmonic Choir/Slovak Radio Symphony/Conductor, Johannes Wildner
Naxos 8.550507 Track 5.
Weber: Der Freischütz - The Wolf's Glenn - Act 2 Scene 6
Artists: Endrik Wottrich/Matti Salminen/Berliner Philharmoniker/Conductor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
CD: Der Freischütz Teldec 4509-97758-2 CD 2 Track 1.
Weber: Der Freischütz - Overture (end)
Artists:BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Conductor, Grant Llewellyn.
PCF422/03CA4843
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Wednesday Programme 28.
Virtuosi - crowds went wild for virtuosi performers and performers became stars.
In the 1820s and 1830s European audiences went mad for virtuosi performers. They took their instruments to new heights and they developed showmanship into an art.
Audiences collected cigar butts and gloves thrown by Liszt, watched fascinated as he wore out pianos on stage and marvelled as Paganini played the fiddle behind his back. The artist as magician was born.
Music From This edition
Paganini: Caprice No 1 in E major
Artist: Ilya Kaler, violin
CD: Paganini 24 Caprices, Op.1 Naxos CD 8.440717 Track 1
Paganini: Caprice No 24 in A minor
Artist: Ilya Kaler, violin
CD: Paganini 24 Caprices, Op.1 Naxos CD 8.440717 Track 24
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C# minor
Artists: Leslie Howard (piano)
CD: Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies Hyperion CDA67418/9 CD 1 Track 2.
Chopin: Etude in C minor Op 10 No 12 "Revolutionary"
Track 1 Artist: Irina Zaritzkaya (piano)
CD: Chopin Famous Piano Music Naxos CD 8.550291
Chopin: Etude in E Op.10 No.3
Artist: Balász Szokolay (piano)
CD: Chopin Famous Piano Music Naxos CD 8.550291 Track 8
Chopin: Ballade No 1 in G minor Op 23
Artist: Stephen Hough (piano)
CD: Chopin Four Ballades - Four Scherzos
Hyperion CDA67456 Track 1
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Thursday Programme 29.
Grand Opera -In the first half of the nineteenth century, Italy consummated its love affair with opera.
Donizetti, Rossini, Verdi and Bellini made opera wildly popular. Their music was sung and whistled on the streets. Everything went on in the theatres: cooking, gambling and sex as well as the music - and the well-off went to the theatre four or five times a week. Music became part of the way of life.
It was said when Rossini was writing an opera the whole town was in a state of intoxication and the show's producers would tear out their hair as he wrote right up to the deadline. It was said no producers of opera had any hair left by the age of 30.
Music From This edition
Rossini: Overture for La Gazza Ladra
Artists: Zagreb Festival Orchestra, Conductor, Michael Halász
CD Rossini Overtures Naxos 8.550236 Track 1
Donizetti: Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali
Artists: Giuseppe Di Stefano (tenor)/Raffaele Arié (bass)/
Chorus and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Chorus Master, Andrea Morosini)/Conductor, Tullio Serafin
CD: Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor Naxos 8.110131 CD 2 Track 12
Bellini: Casta Diva CD: Bellini Norma
Artists: Maria Callas (soprano)/Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Milan/Conductor, Tullio Serafin
Naxos 8.110325-27 CD 1 Track 10
Rossini: Overture, William Tell
Artist: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra/Conductor Vassily
Sinaisky PMR440/04NA1379
Donizetti: Chi mi frena in tal momento
Artists: Giuseppe Di Stefano (tenor)/Tito Gobbi (baritone)/ Maria Callas (soprano)/Raffaele Arié (bass)/
Anna Maria Canali (mezzo-soprano)/Valiano Natali (tenor)/Chorus and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Chorus Master, Andrea Morosini)/Conductor, Tullio Serafin
CD: Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor Naxos 8.110131 CD1 Track 23
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Friday Programme 30
Albertopolis - Prince Albert's support of music had long lasting effects: he proposed the Royal College of Music and the Albert Hall was built in his honour. The democratisation of music was on its way.
Choirs sprang up from the newly moneyed lower middle classes and Town Halls, paid for by the citizens, grew up in Leeds and Birmingham
The greatest of these - the nations village hall - was the Royal Albert Hall. It was Prince Albert himself who proposed the foundation of the Royal College of Music, and because of him that museums cluster around this part of London ,the Victoria and Albert, the Science museum, the Natural History Museum. They called Kensington 'Albertopolis.'
Music From This edition
Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique.
Artist: BBC Philharmonic - Chester Summer Music Festival
Schubert: Symphonies No 3 & 6
Artist: Failoni Orch, Budapest, Michael Halasz
Publisher: 1994 HNH International Ltd
Naxos: 8.553094 Track 4 Symphony 3 in D Major 'Presto Vivace'
Handel: Rinaldo
Artist: Laura Whalen as Almirena
Opera in concert - Aradia Ensemble
Conductor: Kevin Mallon
Naxos: 8.660165-67
CD2 track 7
Aria: Lascia ch'io panga
Publisher: Naxos 2006
Dvorok - Elgar - Cello Concertos
Concerto in E minor
Allegro, ma non troppo
Artist: Maria Kliegel - cello
Royal Philharmonic Orch
Conductor: Michael Halasz
Naxos 8.550503 Publisher:1992 HNH International Ltd
Track 7
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