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New Beginnings

Half an hour of uninterrupted music themed around new beginnings. From daybreak to spring, from newly weds to breaking up and moving on, the music celebrates all things new.

From Edgar Bainton鈥檚 And I Saw a New Heaven to Grieg鈥檚 depiction of spring and Evelyn Glennie鈥檚 journey Crossing the Bridge,, the music is inspired by all aspects of starting anew. There is optimism at the start of Ravel鈥檚 new day and sadness in the newly wedded life of Gilbert and Sullivan鈥檚 heroine Elsie in Yeomen of the Guard. The journey begins at the bottom of the Rhine, the very start of Wagner's Ring Cycle, rising up from its watery source through the lower registers of the orchestra, and ends with Anna Jane Casey, washing that man out of her hair and starting afresh, in Rodgers and Hammerstein鈥檚 South Pacific.

Producer: Helen Garrison

30 minutes

Last on

Tue 24 Nov 2020 19:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Richard Wagner

    Das Rheingold (Prelude)

    Orchestra: The English National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Reginald Goodall.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Tis done! I am a bride (The Yeomen of the Guard)

    Singer: Sylvia McNair. Choir: Chorus of St Martin in the Fields. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.

  • Evelyn Glennie

    Crossing the Bridge

    Performer: Evelyn Glennie.

  • Edgar Bainton

    And I saw a new Heaven

    Choir: The Sixteen. Performer: Robert Quinney. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • A New Heaven, The Sixteen.
    • UCJ.
    • 9.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Daphnis et Chlo茅: Lever du jour

    Choir: Berlin Radio Choir. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Boulez Conducts Debussy & Ravel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Edvard Grieg

    To the Spring, Op 43 No 6 (Lyric Pieces)

    Performer: Andrei Gavrilov.

  • Richard Rodgers

    I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair (South Pacific)

    Lyricist: Oscar Hammerstein II. Singer: Anna-Jane Casey. Orchestra: John Wilson Orchestra. Choir: Maida Vale Singers. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Rodgers & Hammerstein at the Movies.
    • Warner Classics.

Broadcasts

  • Thu 13 Sep 2018 19:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3
  • Tue 24 Nov 2020 19:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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