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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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54 minutes

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Sun 7 Apr 2019 14:00

Music Played

  • 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.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 28 Jan 2018 14:00
  • Sun 7 Apr 2019 14:00

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