A Musical Journey: Germany / England: Battle Music (2011)
0h 54min
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- Synopsis:
A tour of English and German military museums and war monuments accompanied by music from Beethoven, Rimsky-Korsakov, Liszt and Ippolitov-Ivanov.
The Places
The tour visits the Tin Soldier Museum at Kulmbach, the National Army Museum, the Wellington Memorial and St Paul's Cathedral in London, and the Bavarian Army Museum at Ingolstadt, with its relics of the Thirty Years War and of conflicts with the Ottoman Empire.
GERMANY - ENGLAND
1. Kulmbach: Tin Soldier Museum - London: National Army Museum
ENGLAND
2. London: National Army Museum, Wellington Memorial, St Paul’s Cathedral and Waterloo Place
GERMANY
Kulmbach: Tin Soldier Museum3-4. Various Fairy-Tale Scenes
5. Siege of Kulmbach and Plassenburg, 1553 Ingolstadt: Bavarian Army Museum
6. Turkish Battles and Uniforms
7. Spring Parade on the Oberwiesenfeld 1886 and Uniforms
8. Black Cavalry Armour of the Early 17th Century and The Battle of Prague
9. Weapons of the Wittclsbach Noble Guard and The Battle of Prague
The Music
The tour brings Beethoven's musical celebration of Wellington's victorious campaign in Spain, Liszt's Battle of the Huns and a Georgian war march by Ippolitov-Ivanov. The tour ends with two military works by Rimsky-Korsakov, King Dodon on the Battlefield, from his last opera, The Golden Cockerel, and The Massacre at Kerzhenets from The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh.- Actors:
- Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Studio:
- Naxos
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Documentary, Music & Musicals, Performing Arts, Special Interest
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