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Amanda Vickery

Michael Berkeley's guest is historian Amanda Vickery. Her musical choices include Mozart, Bach, Handel, Arne, Clementi, Poulenc, Miles Davis, Amy Winehouse and Gwyneth Herbert.

Michael Berkeley's guest this week is Amanda Vickery, Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London, where she lectures on British social, political and cultural history. She is the author of The Gentleman's Daughter (1998) and Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England (2009), and writes and presents history documentaries for TV and radio, including A History of Private Life and Voices from the Old Bailey for 大象传媒 Radio 4, and the television series At Home with the Georgians for 大象传媒2.

Many of her musical choices reflect aspects of everyday life in the 18th century - love and courtship as seen through the Northumbrian folksong O Waly, Waly and the duet Bei Mannern welche Liebe fuhlen from Mozart's opera The Magic Flute; the intimacy and religious discipline of the closet (a movement from a Bach solo cello suite); a great public event (Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks, written to celebrate the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1749; the contrast between women singers who were allowed to earn a living publicly (represented by an aria from Arne's 1762 opera Artaxerxes) and those who had to pursue their music-making only in the domestic sphere (a Clementi sonata for piano duet). There's also more recent music by Poulenc (Hommage a Edith Piaf), Miles Davis and Amy Winehouse, as well as The Housewife's Lament sung by Gwyneth Herbert (from A History of Private Life).

Part of Baroque Spring

First broadcast in October 2011.

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Sun 17 Mar 2013 12:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Gigue (from the Cello Suite No 3 in C, BWV 1009)

    Performers: Anne Gastinel (cello)

    • NA脧VE 5121.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Bei M盲nnern welche Liebe f眉hlen (from Die Zauberfl枚te, Act 1)

    Performers: Ruth Ziesack (Pamina), Michael Kraus (Papageno), Vienna PO/Sir Georg Solti

    • DECCA 433 210-2.

  • Benjamin Britten

    O waly, waly

    Performers: David Daniels (counter tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

    • VIRGIN 545525-2.

  • George Frideric Handel

    La R茅jouissance (from Music for the Royal Fireworks)

    Performers: English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner

    • PHILIPS 464706-2.

  • Thomas Arne

    The soldier tir'd of war's alarms (from Artaxerxes, Act 3)

    Performers: Catherine Bott (Mandane), The Parley of Instruments/Roy Goodman

    • HYPERION CDA 67051/2.

  • Muzio Clementi

    Sonata for piano Duet, Op 6 No 1 (3rd movement, Presto)

    Performers: Genevieve Chinn and Allen Brings (piano duet)

    • CENTAUR CRC 2046.

  • Anon

    The Housewife's Lament

    Performers: Gwyneth Herbert (singer)

    • Private recording used with permission.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Hommage 脿 Edith Piaf (Improvisation No.15)

    Performers: Gabriel Tacchino (piano)

    • EMI 762551-2.

  • Charlie Parker's Reboppers

    Blue in Green (from Kind of Blue)

    Performers: Mile Davis (trumpet), John Coltrane (tenor sax), Bill Evans (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums)

    • COLUMBIA CK 64935.

  • Amy Winehouse

    Love is a losing game

    Performers: Amy Winehouse

    • ISLAND 1713041.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Gigue (Cello Suite No.3 in C, BWV.1009)

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Bei Mannern welche Liebe fuhlen (Die Zauberflote)

  • Benjamin Britten

    O Waly, waly

  • George Frideric Handel

    La Rejouissance (Music for the Royal Fireworks)

  • Thomas Arne

    The Soldier Tir'd (Artaxerxes)

  • Muzio Clementi

    Sonata for piano duet, Op.6 no.1 (3rd mvt: Presto)

  • Anon.

    The Housewife's Lament

  • Francis Poulenc

    Hommage a Edith Piaf (Improvisation no.15)

  • Charlie Parker's Reboppers

    Blue in Green (Kind of Blue)

  • Amy Winehouse

    Love is a Losing Game

    Singer: Amy Winehouse.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 6 Mar 2011 12:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3
  • Sun 17 Mar 2013 12:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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