The Gramophone Classical Music Podcast
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Jeremy Eichler's new book, Time's Echo, just out from Faber (HB; £25) tangles with memory – what we choose to remember, what to forget – as history takes hold, and he argues that music can become in many ways the most powerful form of memorial. To illustrate this argument, he engages with works by Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Dmitri Shostakovich and Benjamin Britten. James Jolly caught up with him recently to talk about the book.
The musical excerpts which appear on the podcast, with kind permission, are:
Shostakovich Symphony No 13, 'Babi Yar' Nikita Storojev; CBSO & Choir / Okko Kamu (Chandos)
Schoenberg A Survivor or from Warsaw Franz Mazura; CBSO & Chorus / Simon Rattle (Warner Classics)
R Strauss Metamorphosen Sinfonia of London / John Wilson (Chandos)
Britten War Requiem Soloists; Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral; LSO & Chorus / Richard Hickox (Chandos)
Can Çakmur on Schubert and Krenek
Andrè Schuen on Schubert's Winterreise
Antonello Manacorda on Beethoven's Ninth at 200
Brindley Sherratt on his debut song recital 'Fear No More'
James Ehnes on Leonard Bernstein and John Williams
Nathan Williamson and James Gilchrist on the songs of Thomas Pitfield
Kirill Gerstein on 'Music in the Time of War'
Klaus Mäkelä on recording Stravinsky in Paris: From the Archive
Exploring Schubert
Paavo Järvi on Mendelssohn's symphonies
Rebecca Dale on her new album 'Night Seasons'
Dalia's Mixtape: Anna Meredith's Nautilus
The 12 Ensemble's new album, Metamorphosis
Handel's Theodora, with Jonathan Cohen
Alessandro Fisher on 'A Gardener's World'
Lara Downes on Rhapsody in Blue Reimagined
Edmund Finnis and Clare Hammond on recording Youth
Timothy Ridout on 'A Lionel Tertis Celebration'
Krystian Zimerman on Szymanowski, conducting and retirement
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood on 'Handel for Trumpet'
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