This week, Learning to Listen takes its lead from Martin Luther King Day. The music is all related to occasions or movements connected to civil rights, freedom or revolution.
Program Playlist
We Shall Overcome
Charles Alferd Tindley/arr O'Connor
Mark O'Connor, fiddle
Go Down, Moses
Negro Spiritual/arr. Burleigh
Marian Anderson, contralto
Gioacchino Rossini
Tutto cangia, il ciel s'abbella from William Tell
Orchestra and chorus of La Scala, Milan/Muti
Giuseppe Verdi
'Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves' from Nabucco
Jean Sibelius
from Finlandia - Finlandia Hymn
Michael Tippett
from A Child of Our Time - 'Nobody Knows the Trouble I See, Lord'
London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Richard Hickox, conductor
Ethel Smyth
The March of the Women
The Plymouth Music Series
Philip Brunelle, conductor
Janis Hardy, alto
Sergei Prokofiev
Prelude from Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, Op. 74
Dmitri Shostakovich
Festive Overture
Sergei Rachmaninov
Vespers: Rejoice O Virgin (Bogoroditse Devo)
The Dale Warland Singers
Richard Wagner
Prelude to Tristan and Isolde
Daniel Barenboim
Strange Fruit
arr. Downes
Ludwig van Beethoven
Hymn to Joy from Symphony no. 9
mixed orch./Bernstein, recorded at the Berlin Wall
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