Music Related to War
Aled Jones explores music written in response to warfare and presents Jonathan Willcocks's cantata A Great and Glorious Victory, marking the Battle of Trafalgar.
Aled Jones explores music written in response to warfare, and invites Jonathan Willcocks to introduce his cantata A Great and Glorious Victory, written to commemorate the Battle of Trafalgar.
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Kurt Weill
Zu Potsdam Unter Den Eichen
大象传媒 Symphony Chorus, conducted by Stephen Jackson
Largo 5130 CD2, track 5
George Frideric Handel
Judas Maccabaeus
Opening of Act II: 鈥淔all鈥檔 is the foe鈥� + 鈥淪ee, the conqu鈥檙ing hero come鈥� + part of march
Choir of New College, Oxford, The King鈥檚 Consort, conducted by Robert King.
Hyperion, CDA666412, CD1, track 26, CD2 tracks 19-20
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Six Choral Songs 鈥� to be sung in Time of War
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, conducted by Richard Hickox
Chandos, CHAN9984, track 11-16
Joseph Haydn
Missa in tempore belli
Agnus Dei & Dona Nobis Pacem
Monterverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
Philips 4708192, track 21 & 22
Jonathan Willcocks
A Great and Glorious Victory
Allan Clayton (tenor), Portsmouth Choral Union, English Cathedral Singers, Southern Pro Musica, conducted by Jonathan Willcocks
Priory PRCD 877, tracks 1-4
William Byrd
Civitas sancti tui
The King鈥檚 Singers
Signum SIGCD061, track 6
Veljo Tormis
Curse Upon Iron
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, conducted by T玫nu Kaljuste
ECM 4652232, track 3
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