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British Music Map

Today, as part of Radio 3's British Music Map, Ian Skelly celebrates music from around the British Isles, and - inspired by Radio 3's Music Map - is joined by Sara Mohr-Pietsch to explore connections between some of her favourite British pieces of music.

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Mon 26 Aug 2024 09:30
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Music Played

  • Karl Jenkins

    Palladio (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Jenkins.
    • Karl Jenkins: Quirk, Sarikiz & Over the Stone.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 114.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Eternal source of light divine (Birthday Ode for Queen Anne)

    Singer: Elin Manahan Thomas. Performer: David Blackadder. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Eternal Light: Elin Manahan-Thomas.
    • Heliodor.
    • 2.

  • Edward Elgar

    Quintet in A minor Op.84 for piano and strings: 1st mvt; Moderato - allegro

    Performer: Lynn Arnold. Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • Dutton Epoch.

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Farnham Festival Overture

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • British Light Overtures 2: RBS, Sutherland.
    • White Line.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness (The Yellow Cake Revue)

    Performer: Peter Maxwell Davies.
    • Peter Maxwell Davies: A Celebration of Scotland: Scottish Chamber Orch & Choir.
    • Unicorn-Kanchana.

  • John Rutter

    Hymn to the Creator of Light

    Choir: Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford. Conductor: Owen Rees.
    • A New Heaven.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 12.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

    Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • BMG.

  • Roger Quilter

    Fear no more the heat o' the sun (Five Shakespeare Songs)

    Singer: John Mark Ainsley. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • Hyperion.

  • Doreen Carwithen

    Men of Sherwood Forest (Overture)

    Music Arranger: Philip Lane. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Dutton.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet Op.2 'Gradus ad Parnassum' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Chandos.

  • Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie

    The Cricket on the Hearth, Op.62: Overture

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • HELIOS.

  • Trevor Duncan

    Little suite for orchestra: March

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • MARCO POLO.

  • Robert Carver

    Missa Dum sacrum mysterium - Sanctus

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Great British Choral Works.
    • The Sixteen Productions Ltd..
    • 7.

  • Joan Trimble

    Suite for Strings (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Irish Chamber Orchestra. Director: Fionnuala Hunt.
    • Black Box.

  • Trad.

    Ar lan y mor

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera. Conductor: Gareth Jones.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • William Baines

    "Tides": Goodnight To Flamboro

    Performer: William Baines.
    • Rarities of Piano Music 2002: Live Recordings from the Husum Festival.
    • Danacord Records.
    • 10.

  • Gustav Holst

    Brook Green Suite (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Sinfonietta. Conductor: Norman Del Mar.
    • Holst: The Collectors Edition.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Michael Flanders and Donald Swann

    The Slow Train

    Ensemble: Michael Flanders and Donald Swann.
    • EMI.

  • William Walton

    Orb and Sceptre

    Performer: Noel Rawsthorne. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • EMI.

  • Frank Merrick

    Suite in the 18th Century Style; 6. Bourees 1 & 2

    Performer: Steven Isserlis.
    • British Solo Cello Music.
    • HYPERION.
    • 27.

  • Henry Purcell

    When I am laid in earth (from Dido and Aeneas)

    Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Orchestra: Il Pomo d鈥橭ro. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • ERATO.

  • John Barry

    The Beyondness of Things

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: John Barry.
    • Decca.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Horn Concerto, Op.58 (1st mvt)

    Performer: David Pyatt. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite.
    • British Horn Concertos.
    • Lyrita.
    • 10.

  • Michael Tippett

    Concerto for double string orchestra

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Teldec.

  • Turlough O'Carolan

    Carolan's Cup

    Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Music Arranger: Barokksolistene. Performer: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene.
    • The Alehouse Sessions.
    • RUBICON.
    • 111.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    String Quartet No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 99: II. Allegretto vivace

    Ensemble: Dante Quartet.
    • Stanford: String Quartets.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 6.

  • Sir Hamilton Harty

    A Comedy Overture

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Madeleine Dring

    Take, O Take Those Lips Away

    Orchestrator: Roderick Williams. Singer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • A Shropshire Lad: English Songs Orchestrated by Roderick Williams.
    • Halle Concerts Society.
    • 18.

  • Benjamin Britten

    The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Fugue)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra: 大象传媒 SO/Davis.
    • Teldec.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Mon 26 Aug 2024 09:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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