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A journey to Ethel Smyth's Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra

Sara Mohr-Pietsch plots a course towards Ethel Smyth's Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch plots a course towards the Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra by Ethel Smyth, a composer best known for her support of the women's suffrage movement in the early twentieth century - she spent two months in prison for her activism. On the way, we hear music from other composers who were in prison, including a prelude by JS Bach, and a movement from Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, written in a Second World War prisoner-of-war camp. Smyth's concerto was composed in 1927, and there's other music from that year, including an early recording by Louis Armstrong; and we make a stop at a recording by one of the original concerto soloists, the violinist Jelly d'Aranyi.

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Music Played

  • Ethel Smyth

    Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra

    Performer: Sophie Langdon. Performer: Richard Watkins. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Odaline de la Mart铆nez.
    • Smyth: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.

  • Ethel Smyth

    March of the Women

    Singer: Eiddwen Harrhy. Ensemble: Chorus and Orchestra of the Plymouth Music Series. Conductor: Philip Brunelle.
    • VIRGIN.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto for 3 Horns and Violin in D Major, TWV 54:D2: I. Vivace

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Telemann: Concerti per molti stromenti.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 701.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia concertante in E flat major, K 364 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Bruno Giuranna. Performer: Anne鈥怱ophie Mutter. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Mozart: Violin Concerto No.1; Sinfonia Concertante, etc..
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude & Fugue in C major BWV.846 (The Well-Tempered Clavier Bk 1)

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • DECCA.

  • Carlo Gesualdo

    Moro, lasso, al mio duolo (No. 17, Madrigali libro sesto, 1611)

    Choir: Exaudi. Conductor: James Weeks.
    • Gesualdo: Madrigali.
    • Winter & Winter.
    • 17.

  • Louis Armstrong

    Weary Blues

    Ensemble: Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven.
    • Avid.

  • Kod谩ly Zolt谩n

    Intermezzo (Hary Janos Suite Op.35a)

    Performer: Laurence Kaptain. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Jarvi.
    • Chandos.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Melodie (Dance of the blessed spirits from Orpheus and Euridice)

    Performer: Jelly d鈥橝r谩nyi. Performer: Coenraad Van Bos. Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler.
    • Biddulph.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Elegy (Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings)

    Performer: Radek Babor谩k. Singer: Ian Bostridge. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No. 4 in F minor

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

Broadcast

  • Last Sunday 13:30
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3