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A Black History

Celebrating the cultural contribution of black people in the 17th and 18th centuries, including music by Ignatius Sancho, Jose Nunes Garcia, Chevalier Meude-Monpas...and Beethoven!

Celebrating the early cultural contribution of black people in the arts in the 17th and 18th centuries, including music by the first black man to vote in a British general election, Ignatius Sancho. There's also the musketeer Le Chevalier Meude-Monpas, 'the Black Mozart' Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de Saint-George, Brazilian composer Jose Nunes Garcia, and the real dedicatee of Beethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonata. Lucie Skeaping presents.

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22 minutes

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Sun 23 Oct 2022 14:00
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Music Played

  • Rachel Portman

    Belle: Main titles

    Performer: Original Film Soundtrack.

  • Tielman Susato

    Basse danse (La Mourisque)

    Performer: Early Music Consort of London. Conductor: David Munrow.

  • Ignatius Sancho

    The Complaint

    Ensemble: The Windsor Box and Fir Company.

  • Ignatius Sancho

    13 Minuets for keyboard: No 6 (Birdcall); No 7

    Performer: Janise White. Ensemble: Afro-American Chamber Music Society Orchestra.

  • Chevalier J.J.O. de Meude-Monpas

    Concerto no. 4 in D major: Adagio

    Performer: Rachel Barton. Orchestra: Encore Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Hege.

  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Quartet in C major Op.1`1: Allegro

    Ensemble: Juilliard String Quartet.

  • Juan Manuel Olivares

    Stabat Mater (excerpt)

    Ensemble: Orquesta SinfĂłnica de Venezuela. Conductor: Vicente Emilio Sojo.

  • JosĂ© MaurĂ­cio Nunes Garcia

    Tarambote

    Ensemble: Ensemble Turicum. Conductor: Luiz Alves da Silva.

  • JosĂ© MaurĂ­cio Nunes Garcia

    Missa de nossa senhora da conceicao: Cum sancto spiritu

    Choir: The University of Texas Chamber Singers. Conductor: James Morrow.

  • Trad.

    The Willow song

    Performer: Robert Spencer. Singer: James Bowman.

  • John Gay

    The Beggar's opera: Overture

    Ensemble: The Harmonious Society of Tickle‐Fiddle Gentlemen.

  • Trad.

    The jovial broom-man

    Ensemble: The City Waites.

  • Trad.

    Bobbing Jo

    Performer: The City Waites.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata in A major Op.47 (Kreutzer): Finale

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 17 May 2020 14:00
    ±«Óătv Radio 3
  • Sun 23 Oct 2022 14:00
    ±«Óătv Radio 3

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