RESOUNDING ECHOES with Robert McCarney

What's in a name?

Hello, good afternoon, and welcome to 'What's in a name?', today's episode of Resounding Echoes. Gustav Klimt, Max Weber, Egon Schiele, Guillaume Apollinaire and the composer of our first piece of music today are just some of the more famous names among the countless millions who died in possibly humanity's greatest ever pandemic, known as the Spanish Flu, and as was the case with the First World War, a disproportionate percentage of this killer's victims were young men in their prime. This particular strain of influenza virus was no more Spanish than Syphillis was English or Corona Chinese ...

Listen — Robert McCarney: What's in a name?
(Resounding Echoes)
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Resounding Echoes: What's in a name?

Copyright © 15 September 2024 Robert McCarney,
León, Spain

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What's in a name?

Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Piano Sonata (1918)
Garrick Ohlsson, piano

Matthijs Vermeulen: Cello Sonata No 1 (1918)
Anner Bijlsma, cello; Reinbert de Leeuw, piano

Anton Webern: Ein Winterabend, Op 13 No 4 (1918)
Françoise Pollet, soprano; Ensemble Intercontemporain / Pierre Boulez

Arthur Lourié: In the Sanctaury of a Golden Dream (1919)
Russian Chamber Choir / Tamara Pilipchuk

Béla Bartók: Three Etudes (1918)
Zoltán Kocsis, piano

Charles Koechlin: Les Heures Persanes (1919)
Ralph van Raat, piano

Leoš Janáček: The Diary of one who Disappeared (1919)
Josef Páleníček, piano; Members of the Kühn mixed choir

 

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

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