Free Thinking Festival 2014 Special
From Sage Gateshead, Sean Rafferty presents a special edition to launch the 2014 Free Thinking Festival. With live music and guests in front of an invited audience.
Sean Rafferty presents a special In Tune to launch Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas, live from Sage Gateshead.
There's live music from members of the Royal Northern Sinfonia, pianist Alexandra Dariescu, Northumbrian pipe player Alistair Anderson and friends, jazz pianist/singer Joe Stilgoe, and and an illustrious line-up of Free Thinking guests who will be appearing at events throughout the weekend-long festival, including:
Elif Shafak, Turkey's leading female novelist
Noted historian of religion Karen Armstrong, who will give the festival's opening lecture later tonight
Prize-winning Northumberland author David Almond, who writes novels for adults and children
Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Alun Withey, whose current special interest is beards
and the Rt Hon. the Lord Falconer of Thoroton, who was the Lord Chancellor and the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs in Tony Blair's government and is currently the Shadow Spokesperson for Constitutional and Deputy Priministerial Issues. He is also Chairman of Sage Gateshead.
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Miller Anderson
Time and Tide (from Lindisfarne Gospels)
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The Beach Boys
I just wasn鈥檛 made for these times
Performer: Joe Stilgoe. -
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Georges Bizet
Je crois entendre encore (from The Pearl Fishers)
Performer: Alain Vanzo. Orchestra: Sofia National Opera Orchestra. -
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Johannes Brahms
Symphony No.4 in E minor: Allegro giocoso
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski. -
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No毛l Coward
A Room with a View
Performer: Joe Stilgoe. -
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Monteverdi Choir
L鈥橭rfeo 鈥� Act 5: Chorus of nymphs and shepherds
Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini. -
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Flute Quartet in D major K285 鈥� 1st mvt: Allegro
Ensemble: Members of Royal Northern Sinfonia. -
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Johann Pachelbel
Canon
Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. -
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Joe Stilgoe
Nobody Cares Like Me
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Arthur Sullivan
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest (from Iolanthe)
Performer: Richard Suart. Orchestra: D鈥橭yly Carte Opera Orchestra. -
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Karol Szymanowski
Prelude in C minor Op.1 No.7
Performer: Alexandra Dariescu. -
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Traditional Northumbrian
Risty Gulley/The Lads of Alnwick
Performer: Alistair Anderson. Performer: Emily Ball. -
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Alistair Anderson & Emily Ball
Time and Tide - from A Lindisfarne Gospel
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Alistair Anderson & Emily Ball
Peacock Blue/East Winds
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Alistair Anderson & Emily Ball
Hidden Hexham
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