Cover Versions
The Listening Service explores the art of the cover version. Does the meaning of a piece change when it's 'covered'? Is all classical music one big cover version?
The Listening Service explores the art of the cover version: what happens when one composer 'covers' the art of another? Why was it common practice for Baroque composers to recycle their own work and 'borrow' from their colleagues on a regular basis? And what of musical traditions like folk and jazz where key pieces or 'standards' are covered by multiple artists? Tom Service talks to Baroque expert Berta Joncas and folk star Eliza Carthy to get some answers.
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Lessons from Handel, Mozart, Whitney... and the John Lewis Christmas advert.
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Eliza Carthy on the origins of folk classic Scarborough Fair
Duration: 02:36
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Dolly Parton
I Will Always Love You
Performer: Whitney Houston.- I Will Always Love You.
- Arista.
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Charles Gounod
Meditation sur le 1er prelude de Bach 'Ave Maria'
Singer: Jessye Norman. Orchestra: Lyon Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Lawrence Foster.- Jessye Norman at Notre-Dame.
- Philips.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Winter 2 (The Four Seasons)
Composer: Max Richter. Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Raphael Alpermann. Orchestra: Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin. Conductor: Andr茅 de Ridder.- DG.
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Dolly Parton
I Will Always Love You
- Jolene.
- RCA.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue in C major BWV.846 (The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)
Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.- Decca.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5, Adagietto
Performer: Leonard Bernstein. Performer: New York Philharmonic.- CBS.
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笔茅谤辞迟颈苍
Viderunt Omnes
Choir: The Hilliard Ensemble.- ECM.
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George Frideric Handel
Sinfonia, Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)
Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.- Archiv.
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George Frideric Handel
Lascia ch'io pianga (Rinaldo)
Singer: Sandrine Piau. Ensemble: Europa Galante. Conductor: Fabio Biondi.- Handel: Arie e Duetti D'Amore; Europa Galante.
- Naive.
- 3.
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George Frideric Handel
Sarabande from Almira Dance Suite
Performer: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto No. 7 in A minor RV522, L'estro armonico
Performer: L'Arte dell'Arco.- BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto in A minor (after Antonio Vivaldi) BWV 593
Performer: David Goode.- SIGNUM.
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George Frideric Handel
I rage, I melt. I burn; O ruddier than the cherry (Acis and Galatea)
Singer: John Tomlinson. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: David Parry.- John Tomlinson - Great Operatic Arias.
- Chandos.
- 1.
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Louis Armstrong
West End Blues
- Louis Armstrong - Hot Five & Hot Seven.
- Giants of Jazz.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem in D minor compl S眉ssmayr
Performer: Susan Addison. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Singer: Barbara Bonney. Singer: Hans Peter Blochwitz. Singer: Willard White. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists.- Mozart: Requiem K626/Kyrie K341: Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner.
- Philips.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem K.626
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists.- Mozart: Requiem K626/Kyrie K341: Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner.
- Philips.
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George Frideric Handel
He hath borne our griefs from Messiah
Performer: The Sixteen. Performer: Harry Christophers.- HYPERION.
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George Frideric Handel
And with his stripes from Messiah
Performer: The Sixteen. Performer: Harry Christophers.- HYPERION.
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Eliza Carthy
Worcester City
- Anglicana.
- Topic Records.
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Fairport Convention
Come All Ye
- Liege & Lief.
- Island Records.
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Jon Boden
Gallant Hussar
- A Folk Song A Day.
- www.afolksongaday.com.
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Eliza Carthy
The Gallant Hussar
- Rough Music.
- Topic Records.
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Simon & Garfunkel
Scarborough Fair/Canticle
- Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits.
- Sony BMG.
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Martin Carthy
Scarborough Fair
- New Electric Muse: The Story Of Folk Into Rock CD1.
- Castle Music Ltd.
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Franz Schubert
Erlk枚nig D.328
Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau. Performer: Gerald Moore.- EMI.
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Franz Schubert
Erlk枚nig, D 328
Performer: Oleg Maisenberg. Music Arranger: Franz Liszt.- DG.
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Hope Lies Within
Erlkonig
- Hope Lies Within.
- Hope Lies Within.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Ricercar from Musical Offering BWV1079
Performer: Robert Kohnen.- DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Ricercar a 6 (A Musical Offering BWV.1079)
Music Arranger: Anton Webern. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.- Boulez conducts Webern: Berliner Philharmoniker.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 13.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 7, Allegretto
Performer: London Classical Players. Performer: Sir Roger Norrington.- EMI.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 7, Allegretto
Performer: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Performer: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.- TELDEC.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 7, Allegretto
Performer: Vienna Philharmonic. Performer: Wilhelm Furtw盲ngler.- EMI.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 38, Presto
Performer: Vienna Philharmonic. Performer: Karl Bohm.- DG.
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