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Live from the British Museum

Sean Rafferty presents from the British Museum to mark the opening of its Germany exhibition. With music from three Radio 3 New Generation Artists and viol consort Phantasm.

Sean Rafferty presents In Tune from the Lecture Theatre at the British Museum, with live music from Radio 3's current crop of New Generation Artists (German baritone Benjamin Appl, Irish tenor Robin Tritschler and Russian pianist Pavel Kolesnikov) and the viol consort Phantasm, which celebrates the new exhibition, 'Germany: Memories of a Nation'. Live music will range from Bach to Schumann and Beethoven to Wolf.

Sean Rafferty will also be talking to the Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, who is the mastermind behind the exhibition, and also the writer and presenter of Radio 4's accompanying series.

'Germany: Memories of a Nation' explores the 600-year history of Germany, exhibiting items from the Brandenburg Gate to Bavarian bratwurst and the Gutenberg Bible, via Volkswagen engineering, fairy tales and 'degenerate' pottery. The curators Barrie Cook and Clarissa von Spee will also show Sean Rafferty around a few of the items in the exhibition that take in Germany's cultural history.

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Fri 17 Oct 2014 16:30
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Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Moonlight Sonata - 1st Movement

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet Op.76 No.3 Emperor - 2nd mvt

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic String Quartet.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Die Kunst der Fuge BWV.1080

    Performer: Phantasm.

  • Strasbourg Clock - Germany: Memories of a Nation at the British Museum

  • Joseph Haydn

    Quartet in C major Op.76`3 (Emperor) for strings

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Quartet.

  • Robert Schumann

    Belsatzar Op.57

    Performer: Benjamin Appl. Performer: James Baillieu.

  • Hugo Wolf

    Madchen mit dem roten Mundchen UP.25 for voice and piano

    Performer: Benjamin Appl. Performer: James Baillieu.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata quasi una fantasia in C sharp minor Op.27`2 (Moonlight) for piano (Piano sonata no.14)

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.

  • Tischbein's Goethe - Germany: Memories of a Nation at the British Museum

  • Jules Massenet

    Werther - lyric drama in 4 acts

    Conductor: Fabio Luisi. Performer: El墨na Garan膷a. Performer: Staatskapelle Dresden.
    • DG.
    • 477 9158.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    3 Songs Op.83 [Goethe]

    Performer: James Baillieu. Performer: Robin Tritschler.

  • Robert Franz

    6 Songs Op.22

    Performer: James Baillieu. Performer: Robin Tritschler.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Die Kunst der Fuge BWV.1080

    Performer: Phantasm.

  • Gutenberg Bible - Germany: Memories of a Nation at the British Museum

  • Rudolf Mauersberger

    Wie liegt die Stadt so wust - motet for chorus

    Performer: Matthias Jung. Performer: Dresdner Kreuzchor.
    • Carus.
    • 83 116.

  • Robert Schumann

    Kinderszenen Op.15 for piano

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.

  • Huntsman Automaton - Germany: Memories of a Nation at the British Museum

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Der Freischutz - opera in 3 acts J.277

    Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli. Performer: German Opera Berlin Chorus. Performer: German Opera Berlin Orchestra.
    • DG.
    • 477 9193.

  • Richard Wagner

    Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg - opera in 3 acts

    Conductor: Marco Armiliato. Performer: Jonas Kaufmann. Performer: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Decca.
    • 475 9966.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    5 Four-part fugues K.405 for string quartet, transc. from Bach Das wohltemperierte Klavier, bk.2

    Performer: Phantasm.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    An Chloe K.524 for voice and piano

    Performer: Benjamin Appl. Performer: James Baillieu.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    6 Songs Op.71

    Performer: Benjamin Appl. Performer: James Baillieu.

  • Banknotes - Germany: Memories of a Nation at the British Museum

  • Kurt Weill

    Die Dreigroschenoper - play with music in 3 acts

    Conductor: Wilhelm Br眉ckner-R眉ggeberg. Performer: Wolfgang Neuss. Performer: Berlin Sender Freies Orchestra.
    • CBS.
    • cd426372-.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    15 Variations and a fugue on a theme from Prometheus in E flat major Op.35 (Eroica) for piano

    Performer: Emanuel Ax.
    • SONY.
    • 88765 420862.

  • Johannes Brahms

    6 Songs Op.85

    Performer: James Baillieu. Performer: Robin Tritschler.

  • Richard Strauss

    Schlichte Weisen Op.21 [1887-8]

    Performer: James Baillieu. Performer: Robin Tritschler.

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