EVENINGS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC - BAHRAIN - |
PROGRAMME FOR 10 SEPTEMBER 2003 |
THE WORLD AT WAR |
FRYDERYK CHOPIN (1810-49) Polonaise No. 3 in A, Op. 40/1 "Military" Idil Biret (piano) GUSTAV MAHLER (1860-1911) Revelge (from Des Knaben Wunderhorn) Thomas Quasthoff (bass) Berliner Philharmoniker - Claudio Abbado CHARLES GOUNOD (1818-93) Faust Déposons les armes ... Gloire immortelle de nos aïeux Chorus of the French Army Orchestra & Chorus of the Capitole de Toulouse - Michel Plasson ALEXANDER ALEXANDROV (1883-1946) Svyashchennaya voyna (The Sacred War) Red Army Choir - Victor Fedorov FRANZ LISZT (1811-86) Hunnenschlacht (Battle against the Huns) Berliner Philharmoniker - Zubin Mehta BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913-76) Ballad of Heroes, Op. 14 i) Funeral March ii) Scherzo (Dance of Death) iii) Recitative and Choral Martyn Hill (tenor) London Symphony Chorus, Symphony Orchestra & Chamber Orchestra - Richard Hickox LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Wellington's Victory ("The Battle of Victoria"), Op. 91 i) First Part: Battle ii) Second Part: Victory Symphony London Symphony Orchestra - Antal Dorati Two 6-pound smooth-bore bronze cannons and 12-pound howitzer, French Charleville-pattern muskets and British Brown Bess muskets, courtesy U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. Cannon and musket firing under the direction of Gerald C. Stowe by the reactivated Civil War Unit, Battery B, 2nd New Jersey Light Artillery. SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891-1953) Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, Op. 74 i) Introduction ii) Philosophers iii) Interlude iv) Marching in Close Ranks v) Interlude vi) Revolution vii) Victory viii) The Pledge ix) Symphony x) The Constitution Oleg Mirochnikov (speaker) BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir - Mark Elder |
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