The music of ancient Greece
Lucie Skeaping talks to Prof Armand D'Angour of Jesus College Oxford about the music and poetry of ancient Greece, from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½r to Mesomedes via Sappho, Euripides, Pindar and Athenaeus.
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Traditional Ancient Greece
Daktylos amera (excerpt)
Ensemble: Ensemble Melpomen. -
Sappho
Brothers' Poem
Singer: Stef Conner. -
Traditional Ancient Greece
Prelude & Improvisation on the anonymous 'Bellermann' exercise
Composer: Callum Armstrong. Performer: Callum Armstrong. -
Pindar
12th Pythian Ode
Performer: Barnaby Brown. Singer: Stef Conner. -
Euripides
Orestes (excerpt)
Performer: Barnaby Brown. Director: Tosca Lynch. Choir: University of Oxford scholars. -
Callum Armstrong
Improvisation
Composer: Traditional Ancient Greece. Performer: Callum Armstrong. -
Athenaeus
First Delphic Hymn to Apollo (excerpt)
Ensemble: Atrium Musicæ de Madrid. -
Athenaeus
First Delphic Hymn to Apollo (excerpt)
Performer: Barnaby Brown. Director: Tosca Lynch. Choir: University of Oxford scholars. -
Limenius
2nd Delphic Hymn to Apollo (excerpt)
Ensemble: Atrium Musicæ de Madrid. -
Mesomedes of Crete
Song Fragments
Singer: Stef Conner. -
Traditional Ancient Greece
Seikilos Epitaph
Composer: Armand D'Angour. Performer: Barnaby Brown. Singer: Stef Conner. -
Traditional Ancient Greece
Christian Hymn of Oxyrhynchus
Ensemble: Atrium Musicæ de Madrid.
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- Sun 28 Jan 2018 14:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3
- Sun 7 Apr 2019 14:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3
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