Song Cycles and Concept Albums
Tom Service explores the connections between song cycles in classical music and concept albums in pop and rock music.
Tom Service explores the world of the song cycle - from the tortured passions and existential angst of Beethoven and Schubert's protagonists in 19th-century Vienna, to Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole's ebullient takes on the genre with the birth of the concept album, and Kate Bush's groundbreaking experimental pop suite The Ninth Wave.
Our witness today is composer Emily Hall whose work Life Cycle, written with Toby Litt for singer Mara Carlyle, explores the theme of motherhood.
Producer: Ruth Thomson
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Franz Schubert
Winterreise - song-cycle D.911
Performer: Mark Padmore. Performer: Paul Lewis.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
- HMU907484.
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Kate Bush
Kate Bush: The Ninth Wave - Hello Earth
Performer: Kate Bush.- EMI.
- CDP 7 46164 2.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
An die ferne Geliebte Op.98
Performer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau. Performer: J枚rg Demus.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
- 463 5072.
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Nat King Cole
Ray Rasch/Dotty Rayne: Wild is Love
- Capitol Records.
- CDP 7243 8 28511 2 7.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
An die ferne Geliebte Op.98
Performer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau. Performer: J枚rg Demus.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
- 463 5072.
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Franz Schubert
Winterreise - song-cycle D.911
Performer: Mark Padmore. Performer: Paul Lewis.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
- HMU907484.
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Franz Schubert
Winterreise - song-cycle D.911
Performer: Mark Padmore. Performer: Paul Lewis.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
- HMU907484.
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Franz Schubert
Winterreise - song-cycle D.911
Performer: Mark Padmore. Performer: Paul Lewis.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
- HMU907484.
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Franz Schubert
Winterreise - song-cycle D.911
Performer: Mark Padmore. Performer: Paul Lewis.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
- HMU907484.
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Franz Schubert
Winterreise - song-cycle D.911
Performer: Mark Padmore. Performer: Paul Lewis.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
- HMU907484.
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Nacio Herb Brown
Nacio Herb Brown: Paradise
Performer: Frank Sinatra.- Columbia.
- CK 62100.
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Jimmy Campbell
Jimmy Campbell: Try a Little Tenderness
Performer: Frank Sinatra.- Columbia.
- CK 62100.
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Nat King Cole
Ray Rasch/Dotty Rayne: Wild is Love
- Capitol Records.
- CDP 7243 8 28511 2 7.
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Nat King Cole
Ray Rasch/Dotty Rayne: Hundreds and Thousands of Girls
- Capitol Records.
- CDP 7243 8 28511 2 7.
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Nat King Cole
Ray Rasch/Dotty Rayne: Wild is Love
- Capitol Records.
- CDP 7243 8 28511 2 7.
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Emily Hall
Emily Hall: Life Cycle - Look at My Child
Performer: Mara Carlyle. Performer: Emily Hall.- Bedroom Community.
- unknown.
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Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd: Another Brick in the Wall Part 2
- Columbia (2).
- C2K 36183 P 164.
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Kate Bush
Kate Bush: The Ninth Wave - And Dream of Sheep
Performer: Kate Bush.- EMI.
- CDP 7 46164 2.
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Kate Bush
Kate Bush: The Ninth Wave - Under Ice
Performer: Kate Bush.- EMI.
- CDP 7 46164 2.
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Kate Bush
Kate Bush: The Ninth Wave - Waking the Witch
Performer: Kate Bush.- EMI.
- CDP 7 46164 2.
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Kate Bush
Kate Bush: The Ninth Wave - Hello Earth
Performer: Kate Bush.- EMI.
- CDP 7 46164 2.
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Franz Schubert
Winterreise - song-cycle D.911
Performer: Mark Padmore. Performer: Paul Lewis.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
- HMU907484.
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