MUSIC USED IN THE SERIES

NOTATION

Big Bangs Titles Music (HG)

Monks of Sant’ Antimo monastery singing Gregorian chant Courtney Pine “Underground”

Tallis “Spem in Alium” 40-part motet (final 2 minute excerpt: Christ Church Choir) NOT USED IN FINAL CUT OF PROG.

Fragment of medieval 2-part organum for voices (Christ Church Choir)

Fragment of medieval 3-part polyphony for voices ( Ch Ch Choir)

Fragment of Thomas Ashwell 4-part mass for voices (Ch Ch Choir)

Allegri ‘Miserere’, (Ch Ch Choir)

 

OPERA

Opening of Monteverdi 1610 Vespers: Deus in adjutorium (Ch Ch Choir) ‘L’Orfeo’ by Monteverdi: Opening/Tenor duet (David Loveday & Adam Tunnicliffe)”Orfeo & Euridice” + chorus/”Io la musica son” solo treble (Andrew Blythman) + string ritornello/Orfeo in Hades solo tenor (John Mark Ainsley)+ orhestra.ChristChurchChoir & Chamber Orchestra ofLondon.

‘The Marriage of Figaro’ (Mozart): duet “Oh, Crudele!” & Act 2 Finale (section)- students of the Royal College of Music London (Soloists Grant Doyle, Camilla Tilling, Inga Kalina) + piano.

John Adams ‘Nixon inChina’ excerpt

Daniel Auber ‘La Muette de Portici’, duet “L’Amour sacre de la patrie”

‘Fidelio’ (Beethoven) prisoners’ chorus

 

EQUAL TEMPERAMENT

Dunstaple ‘Veni Sancte Spiritus’ (3 Ch Ch Choristers: Andrew Olleson, Paul Miles-Kingston, David Loveday)

Gabrieli ‘Oedipus Tirannus’ excerpts: “Misera humana prole” & “O a visitar gl’eccelsi d’Abi e d’Olimpia Tempij?” (Cantica Symphonia vocal quartet + HG at harpsichord)

Tarif di Mirsa (Romanian gypsy band filmed on location)

Agincourt Song (HG singing & playing)

Chinese Bamboo Flute, played by Rui jun Hu

Bach ‘The Well-Tempered Clavier’ prelude no 1

R Strauss “Im Abendrot” from Four Last Songs

 

PIANO

Geoff Smith playing own composition on hammer dulcimer

HG playing clavicytherium in RCM

Schubert ‘Gute Nacht’ song in HG’s modern English version, 2 verses only, sung by David Loveday accompanied by HG

Francois Couperin ‘Les Baricades Misterieuse’ played by HG on harpsichord

Mozart Piano Conc no 1 first movt, played on period instruments

Beethoven ‘Moonlight’ Sonata in C#minor first and last movements

Handel ‘Music for the Royal Fireworks’, “La Rejouissance”

Mahler Symphony no 5, Adagietto

Schubert ‘Gute Nacht’ from “Die Winterreise”, full German version

Prokofiev Piano Concerto no3 first movt

Debussy ‘Nuages’ for piano

Scott Joplin ‘Maple Leaf Rag’

 

RECORDED SOUND

Leoncavallo ‘I Pagliacci’: “Vesti la giubba” sung by Enrico Caruso

“Moreschi: The Last Castrato”,Vaticansessions (recently rereleased on remastered CD)

David Fanshawe ‘African Sanctus’, “Sanctus”

Mozart Piano Concerto no 23 K488,Adagio

Steve Reich ‘Different Trains’

MUSIC RELEVANT TO BOOK CHAPTERS:

Goodall Missa Aedis Christi “Sanctus” (on ASV CD “HG’s Choral Works”)

Mahler ‘Kindertotenlieder’, “Oft denk’ ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen!”

Trad. arr Goodall ‘O Waly Waly’ (on forthcoming METRONOME CD “We Are The Burning Fire” sung by Christ Church Choir)