Why Music? The Key to Memory
Elizabeth Alker presents the Breakfast programme, live from London's Wellcome Collection as part of Why Music? The Key to Memory. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Elizabeth Alker presents the Breakfast programme live from London' Wellcome Collection as part of Why Music? The Key to Memory, a weekend of events, concerts and discussions exploring the implications of music's unique capacity to be remembered.
Plus, Georgia Mann learns about another Wellcome Collection object, a Tudor pomander, a portable, herb-filled container worn by Elizabethans to mask nasty ambient and personal smells.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
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Why Music? The Key to Memory
Wellcome Collection hosts a weekend of fascinating programmes on music and the mind.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Liebster Gott, wann werd ich sterben (Cantata no.8)
Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Eternal Fire.
- SOLI DEO GLORIA.
- 14.
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Olivier Messiaen
Pi猫ce pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas
Performer: Peter Hill.- La Fauvette Passerinette: A Messiaen Premiere.
- DELPHIAN.
- 3.
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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in B flat, Op 33 No 4
Ensemble: The Angeles String Quartet.- Haydn - The String Quartets.
- Philips.
- 001.
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John Adams
Roadrunner (Chamber Symphony)
Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.- Warner.
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William Byrd
Lullaby, my sweet little baby
Singer: Timothy Wilson. Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.- Christmas Carols and Motets.
- Gimell.
- 7.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
The Red Hill (The Unforgettable Year 1919, Op 89a)
Performer: Martin Roscoe. Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.- The Film Music of Dmitri Shostakovich, Vol.3.
- Chandos.
- 8.
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Franz Liszt
Rhapsodie espagnole
Performer: Roberto Szidon.- DG.
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Anon.
Ave maris stella
Choir: The Monks and Choirboys of Downside Abbey.- VIRGIN.
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Unsuk Chin
Piano Concerto (4th mvt)
Performer: Sunwook Kim. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung. Orchestra: Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
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Charles Gounod
Ainsi que la brise legere - waltz (Faust)
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Rudolf Kempe.- TESTAMENT.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 3, 'Eroica' (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Beethoven: Symphonies 3 and 4.
- Decca.
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