Showing posts with label music about war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music about war. Show all posts
Monday, 26 November 2018

Requiem : The Pity of War - Bostridge Pappano

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" Requiem: the Pity of War with Ian Bostridge and Antonio Pappano.  The inspiration came from Benjamin Britten's War Requiem , ...
Thursday, 10 August 2017

Elgar, Britten, Brian Elias Prom Wigglesworth BBC NOW

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Toby Spence, Prom 32 photo : Chris Christoduolou, B|BC For more about Britten Ballad for Heroes please see here. Four British c...
Sunday, 6 August 2017

Ikuma Dan Hiroshima Symphony - the finest Hiroshima music of all

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Ikura Dan's Symphony no 6 "Hiroshima" (1985). The photo above isn't Hiroshima, or Nagasaki, but a still from the movie...
Monday, 29 May 2017

Joan of Arc, they are calling you !

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Today marks the 586th anniversary of the death of Joan of Arc, burned at the stake. This year also marks the centenary of the song Joan o...
Sunday, 16 April 2017

Anti-nazi Ostersonntag - Hanns Eisler sets Brecht

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Ostersonntag Hanns Eisler's setting of Bertolt Brecht's poem Frühling 1938, from Eisler's Hollywood Liederbuch .  Brecht opp...
Saturday, 28 May 2016

Hubert Parry and the Battle of Jutland

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Commemorations this weekend for the Battle of Jutland, which took place 100 years ago this week.  The British navy seemed invincible...
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Friday, 20 November 2015

Enigma : Cecil Coles, Martyn Brabbins BBC SSO

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Three premieres of sorts of works by composers who have been dead for a hundred years?  Intriguing. Martyn Brabbins conducted the BBC S...
Thursday, 6 August 2015

Hiroshima 70 years on, in art and music

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Seventy years ago today, Hiroshima was destroyed. Never must we ever forget. Today, we are in danger of taking  Hiroshima for granted ...
Tuesday, 2 June 2015

"A Song outlasts a Dynasty" Gerald Finzi

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"I should feel suicidal" wrote Gerald Finzi in October 1938, a few weeks after Chamberlain sacrificed Czechoslovakia to appease...
Wednesday, 10 December 2014

Flowers of the Field - Gurney Finzi Butterworth RVW

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" As for man, his days are like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes ", so goes Psalm 103. This new recording, Flo...
Friday, 22 August 2014

Illuminating Britten War Requiem Nelsons CBSO Prom

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Andris Nelsons conducted Benjamin Britten's War Requiem at Prom 47. Nelsons'  War Requiem with the City of Birmingham Symphony...
Wednesday, 20 August 2014

Lest we forget - Bleuet Poulenc

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Just as the Poppy symbolizes war to the British, the cornflower symbolizes loss and memory for the French. The Western Front was in Franc...
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Tuesday, 19 August 2014

Lest We Forget Prom - RVW Butterworth Stephan Kelly Manze BBC SSO

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 "They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man, The lads that will die in their glory and never be old."   A E ...
Sunday, 1 December 2013

Jacques Imbrailo Wigmore Hall

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I'll be at The Royal Opera House Wagner Parsifal  Monday. Review here . But first: Jacques Imbrailo at the Wigmore Hall, with pianist...
Monday, 11 November 2013

Britten War Requiem Royal Albert Hall Bychkov BBC SO

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On Remembrance Sunday, Semyon Bychkov conducted Benjamin Britten's War Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall with the BBC Symphony Orches...
Sunday, 11 November 2012

Wartime Elgar The Longed-for Light SOMM

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For Novemvber 11th and for the forthcoming centenary of World War One, a prescient new release by Siva Oke's SOMM label The Longed-fo...