RESOUNDING ECHOES with Robert McCarney

Boiled alive!

Hello, good afternoon, and welcome to 'Boiled alive!', today's episode of Resounding Echoes. We are mammals - mammals with a proportionately large and strangely asymmetrical brain. The explanation for this quirk of natural selection is still hotly debated ...

Listen — Robert McCarney: Boiled alive!
(Resounding Echoes)
© 2024 Robert McCarney :

Resounding Echoes: Boiled alive!

Copyright © 22 September 2024 Robert McCarney,
León, Spain

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Boiled Alive!

Arnold Schoenberg: Die Jakobsleiter (1917-22)

Siegmund Nimsgern, bass
John Shirley-Quirk, baritone
Mady Mesplé, soprano
BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra / Pierre Boulez

 

The music at the very start of this programme has been created specially for the Resounding Echoes series by Swiss composer Daniel Schorno.

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The image and background image on this page have been derived from a photograph of an Icelandic geysir, © 1994 Keith Bramich.

 

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