Generous extracts from Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concertos 2 and 3, played by Evgeny Kissin, and comments from conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy.
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Sergei Prokofiev, Piano Concertos (Ashkenazy/Kissin; Vinnitskaya)
By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept (Moscow Sretensky choir)
Psalm 136, used on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son, sung here by the Moscow Sretensky Choir.
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The Song of Simeon (Sretensky Monastery choir)
Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people.
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Poem: Drop, drop slow tears (Phineas Fletcher)
In your deep floods / Drown all my faults and fears; / Nor let His eye See sin, / but through my tears.
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The English Songbook (Ian Bostridge)
Ian Bostridge talks about "The English Songbook", a diverse collection of his favourite songs in the English language, and sings ‘Down by the Salley Gardens’.
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Franz Schubert: Winterreise (interview with Ian Bostridge and Leif Ove Andsnes)
Ian Bostridge (tenor) and Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) talk about Franz Schubert's song cycle "Winterreise" (winter journey).
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Charles Ives: Fourth sonata for violin and piano, first movement (Hahn, Lisitsa)
Hilary Hahn and Valentina Lisitsa play the first movement from Charles Ives’s Fourth Sonata for Violin and Piano, “Children’s Day at the Camp Meeting (Allegro)”.
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Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2: extracts and interview with pianist Leif Ove Andsnes
Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and conductor Antonio Pappano talk about Rachmaninoff's wonderfully expressive and passionate concerto No. 2, with generous extracts.
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All ye that in Christ have been baptized have put on Christ (Chant)
St Benedict Biscop (c. 628-690) was devoted to sacred chant and art, even borrowing the head chanter of St Peter's in Rome to ensure that the English Church had truly sacred music.
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Schumann, Piano Concerto in A Minor, first movement (Hélène Grimaud)
Hélène Grimaud plays Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A Minor, first movement (first in a practice session, and then in full concert).
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