The Great Fire of London
Sunday 5 December 2004 13:00-14:00 (Radio 3)
The Great Fire of 1666 destroyed 80 percent of England's capital, laying waste to 87 churches and 13,200 houses along with countless books and manuscripts. Lucie Skeaping looks at the music of the city from composers who were living in London at the time of the catastrophe.
Playlist
Trad: London's Burning
KPM MUSIC KPM 1270
JENKINS, John:
Fantasia for 3 instruments [TrBB] and organ no. 7 in F major
LONDON BAROQUE
MERIDIAN CDE 84233 1/1
LOCKE, Matthew: Suite -
[The] Little consort no. 7 (H.132.7) in G minor/major [1651]
LONDON BAROQUE
MERIDIAN CDE 84233
LOCKE, Matthew:
Suite of [3] brawles (H.204-206) in B flat major
LONDON BAROQUE
SAYDISC CD-SDL 385 1/17
SIMPSON Christopher:
The Monthes (September)
ENSEMBLE SONNERIE
VIRGIN CLASSICS 5621 612 2/13
HINGESON:
Fantasia, Almand, Ayre
LONDON BAROQUE
MERIDIAN CDE 84233/9
GIBBONS, Christopher:
Verse for organ in D minor
Robert WOOLLEY - Organ
CHANDOS Chan 0553/1
GIBBONS, Christopher:
Verse for organ in A minor
Robert WOOLLEY - Organ
CHANDOS Chan 0553
DRAGHI Giovanni Battista:
Perche quando
LONDON BAROQUE
SAYDISC CD-SDL 385/18
BLOW, John:
I said in the cutting off of my days - verse anthem for voices and instruments
Robin BLAZE - Counter-tenor
Joseph CORNWELL - Tenor
William KENDALL - Tenor
The PARLEY OF INSTRUMENTS
WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL CHOIR
David HILL - Conductor
HYPERION CDA 67032 2/5
PURCELL, Henry:
What hope for us remains now he is gone? for soprano, bass and continuo (Z.472) [on the death of Matthew Locke]
Michael GEORGE - Bass
Susan GRITTON - Soprano
Mark CAUDLE - Viola da gamba
David MILLER - Lute
Robert KING - Keyboards
HYPERION CDA 66710 1/5
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Reader - Michael Maloney
NAXOS NA 428812
