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A journey to Brahms's Academic Festival Overture

Sara Mohr-Pietsch maps a musical landscape around Brahms’s Academic Festival Overture, listening in deeply to find sonic connections across time and space.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch maps the musical terrain around Brahms’s Academic Festival Overture, wandering down sonic avenues that link music across time and space. From Verdi's Brindisi to Ravel's String Quartet via Perotin, Suppé, Tom Lehrer and Anoushka Shankar, Sara charts a musical journey towards Brahms's boisterous orchestral mash-up of student songs.

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Music Played

  • Johannes Brahms

    Academic Festival Overture Op.80

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Brindisi (La Traviata)

    Singer: Angela Gheorghiu. Singer: Roberto Alagna. Choir: London Voices. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Verdi per due.
    • EMI CLASSICS.
    • 19.

  • Anon.

    Gaudeamus igitur

    Performer: John Kitchen.
    • Delphian Records.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Student Polka, Op. 263

    Orchestra: Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Alfred Walter.
    • Strauss II, J.: Edition - Vol. 16.
    • Marco-Polo.
    • 1.

  • Tom Lehrer

    Bright College Days

    Performer: Tom Lehrer.
    • The Songs of Tom Lehrer.
    • Kessels.
    • 14.

  • Fredrik Pacius

    Studentsang

    Choir: The Academic Male Voice Choir of Helsinki. Conductor: Henrik Wikstrom.
    • BIS.

  • Franz von Suppè

    Humoristische Variationen uber das beleibte Fuchslied Was kommt dort von der Hoh?

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Suppé: Overtures and Marches.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in A major, Op 118 No 2

    Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • Brahms: 2 Rhapsodies Op.79, Klavierstucke Opp.117-119, Radu Lupu.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • ±Êé°ù´Ç³Ù¾±²Ô

    Beata Viscera II

    Performer: Apollo5.
    • O Radiant Dawn.
    • VCM Records.
    • 16.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in D major, K203 'Serenata Colloredo' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Roberto González-Monjas. Orchestra: Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg.
    • Berlin Classics.

  • Henry George Ley

    A Prayer of King Henry VI (Domine, Jesu Christe)

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Evensong Live 2019.
    • King's College, Cambridge.

  • Maurice Ravel

    String Quartet in F major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • EMI.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony no.3 in G minor Op.36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Erato.

  • Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge

    Four Moorish Pictures: An Eastern Suite iv) Dance of Triumph

    Performer: Rochelle Sennet.
    • Albany Records.

  • George Walker

    Lyric for Strings

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Kellen Gray.
    • Linn.

  • Nitin Sawhney

    River Pulse

    Performer: Anoushka Shankar. Performer: Nitin Sawhney. Performer: Ian Burdge. Performer: Pirashanna Thevarajah.
    • Traces of you.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

  • George Gershwin

    Girl Crazy (Overture)

    Orchestra: WDR Funkhausorchester. Conductor: Wayne Marshall.
    • Born to Play, Wayne Marshall, Gershwin.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 7.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 30 Quodlibet

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Bach: Goldberg Variations.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 31.

  • Francisco Tárrega

    Recuerdos de la Alhambra

    Performer: Thibaut Garcia.
    • Leyendas.
    • Erato.
    • 16.

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