Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Ian Mortimer
With Sarah Walker. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: works by Purcell and Morley; Artists of the Week: Belcea Quartet, featured performing Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht.
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As Radio 3 celebrates the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, Sarah Walker is joined by the historian Ian Mortimer to explore the momentous changes that the Reformation brought to music and the arts.
Ian is best-known for his book The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval History, which became a Sunday Times Bestseller. After completing his PhD he worked for several major research institutions including the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and the universities of Exeter and Reading, all of which gave him a hands-on experience of history. He has also written poetry and a series of historical fiction novels under the pseudonym James Forrester. Ian believes that history is about people, not the past, and in his Time Traveller's Guide series he immerses readers in the real-life, everyday practicalities and concerns of men and women living in the Medieval era, the Restoration period, or Elizabethan England. Throughout the week Ian and Sarah will discover how music was shaped by the events, personalities and societies of these times.
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Music in Time:鈥疊aroque Reformation Reflections
Sarah travels back to the Baroque period, and to the funeral of Queen Mary II of England held on 5th March, 1695. The funeral featured music composed by Henry Purcell and Thomas Morley, and included deeply moving settings of the Anglican burial service.
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Sarah's Artist of the Weeks are the Belcea Quartet, which was formed under the leadership of violinist Corina Belcea in 1994, when the original members were still students at the Royal Academy of Music. Five years later they were one of the first groups selected to participate in Radio 3's New Generation Artists Scheme, and in 2001 they won the Gramophone Award for best debut recording. They have gone on to make acclaimed recordings of the core quartet repertoire, ranging from Mozart to Schoenberg, as well as collaborations with the tenor Ian Bostridge and bass, Jonathan Lemalu. The quartet combines technical brilliance with emotional intensity as we'll hear through the week in their recordings of quartets by Debussy, Schoenberg, Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert.
Schoenberg
Verkl盲rte Nacht, Op.4鈥�
Belcea Quartet
with Nicolas Bone (violin) and Antonio Meneses (cello).
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Anonymous
Saltarello No.1
Ensemble: Ensemble Unicorn.- NAXOS.
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Gioachino Rossini
Italian Girl in Algiers: Overture
Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- PHILIPS.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: BELCEA QUARTET
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Anton Webern
Langsamer Satz
Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.- ALPHA.
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Johann Schelle
Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland
Choir: Musica Fiata. Director: Roland Wilson.- Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659
Performer: Wilhelm Kempff.- DG.
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Thomas Morley
Hard by a Crystal Fountain
Choir: The King鈥檚 Singers.- SIGNUM.
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George Kirbye
Bright Phoebus greets most clearly
Choir: The King鈥檚 Singers.- SIGNUM.
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Edward Elgar
Sursum Corda
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.- SOMM.
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William Alwyn
Bicycle Ride
Performer: Mark Bebbington.- SOMM.
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Charles Gounod
Faust (Act 2 Waltz)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- DG.
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Benjamin Britten
Suite Op.6: Waltz - Alla valse, vivace e rubato
Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Piers Lane.- CHANDOS CHAN.
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Ian Mortimer's First Choice
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anon
Bone Jesu dulcis cunctis
Singer: Hazel Askew. Singer: Victoria Couper.
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Ian Mortimer's Second Choice
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anon
Trotto and Saltarello No.2
Ensemble: Ensemble Unicorn.- NAXOS.
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Ian Mortimer's Third Choice
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Roy Henry
Sanctus
Ensemble: Cardinall's Musick. Director: Andrew Carwood.- Gaudeamus.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Rondo in G minor Op.94 for cello and piano
Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.- HYPERION.
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Music in Time: Baroque
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James Paisable
The Queen's Farewell
Choir: Vox Luminis. Ensemble: Lingua Franca. Director: Lionel Meunier.- RICERCARE.
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Thomas Morley
I heard a voice from heaven
Choir: Vox Luminis. Ensemble: Lingua Franca. Director: Lionel Meunier.- RICERCARE.
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William Mathias
Serenade, Op.18
Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Andrew Penny.- Welsh Classical Favourites: Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Penny.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: BELCEA QUARTET
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Arnold Schoenberg
Verklarte 鈥疦acht, Op.4鈥����
Performer: Nicolas B么ne. Performer: Ant么nio Meneses. Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.- ALPHA.
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Gabriel Faur茅
La bonne Chanson: L鈥檋iver est cesse
Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Julius Drake. Ensemble: Belcea Quartet. Performer: Leon Bosch.- EMI.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No.15 in B flat, K450
Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.- CBS.
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