RESOUNDING ECHOES with Robert McCarney

It tolls for thee

Hello, good afternoon, and welcome to today's episode of Resounding Echoes. Unlike their European counterparts, American soldiers were spared the horrors of trench warfare until at least 1917. That circumstance may go some way to explaining how the composition of our first piece today was possible in 1915 ...

Listen — Robert McCarney: It tolls for thee
(Resounding Echoes)
© 2024 Robert McCarney :

Resounding Echoes: It tolls for thee

Copyright © 1 September 2024 Robert McCarney,
León, Spain

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It tolls for thee

Charles Ives: Tone Roads No 3 (1915)
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra / Gunther Schuller

Alban Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op 6 (1915)
London Symphony Orchestra / Claudio Abbado

Darius Milhaud: String Quartet No 3, Op 32 (1916)
Ulrike Sonntag, soprano; Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet

Gian Francesco Malipiero: Poemi Asolani (1916)
Gino Gorini, piano

George Enescu: Carillon Nocturne from Piano Suite No 3, Op 18 (1916)
Luiza Borac, piano

Franz Schreker: Chamber Symphony (1916)
Camerata Academica Salzburg / Franz Welser-Möst

Charles Ives: Symphony No 4 (1916)
Boston Symphony Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa

John Blackwood McEwen: String Quartet No 7, Threnody (1916)
Chilingirian Quartet

 

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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