Thurday - Rob Cowan: Sound of Cinema
With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: The Vagabond: Bryn Terfel/Malcolm Martineau; Artists of the Week: Beaux Arts Trio; Sound of Cinema with Neil Brand: Honegger: Pacific 231.
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: The Vagabond: Bryn Terfel/Malcolm Martineau, DG; and at 9.30 our brainteaser - What am I?
10am
Artists of the Week: Beaux Arts Trio
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is film, stage and television actress Olivia Williams. Olivia made her film debut in The Postman, and later won the lead role of Rosemary Cross in Wes Anderson's Rushmore. She then starred as Bruce Willis's wife in the blockbuster The Sixth Sense, a film she would later parody during her brief appearance in British sit-com Spaced. Other film credits include Lucky Break, An Education, Hanna, and Roman Polanski's The Ghost, for which she won several major awards. On TV, Olivia portrayed British author Jane Austen in Miss Austen Regrets, and was cast as Adelle DeWitt in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. She writes a monthly column in The Telegraph and is currently starring in Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage at the St James Theatre, London.
11am
Sound of Cinema with Neil Brand, who introduces his personal choice of Music that made the Movies:
Honegger: Pacific 231.
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Giuseppe Verdi
La donna è mobile (Rigoletto)
Singer: Mario Lanza. Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Constantine Callinicos.- Masterworks.
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Vincenzo Bellini
Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in E flat
Performer: Hansjörg Schellenberger. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: James Levine.- DG.
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John Ireland
The Vagabond
Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Bryn Terfel.- DG.
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Ernest Chausson
Soir de fête Op.32
Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Marek Janowski.- Pentatone.
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Frédéric Chopin
Berceuse in D flat major Op.57
Performer: Maurizio Pollini.- 4 Scherzi / Berceuse / Barcarolle (feat. piano: Maurizio Pollini).
- DG.
- 5.
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Edward Elgar
May Song
Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- EMI.
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Carl Maria von Weber
Horn Concertino in E minor, Op. 45
Performer: Barry Tuckwell. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- EMI.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Piano Trio No 1 in C minor, Op 8
Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.- Warner.
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Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons, Op. 8 No. 3: Concerto in F 'Autumn', RV 293
Performer: Simon Standage. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.- Le quattro stagioni.
- Archiv Produktion.
- 7-9.
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Francis Poulenc
Tel jour telle nuit: Une ruine coquille vide
Singer: Felicity Lott. Performer: Graham Johnson.- Hyperion.
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Johann Strauss II
Bluette op 271
Performer: Vienna Philharmonia Orchestra. Performer: Riccardo Muti.- DG.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Horn Concerto No 4 in E flat major, K 495
Performer: Dale Clevenger. Orchestra: Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra.- Sony.
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John Dowland
Tarleton's Jig
Performer: Jakob Lindberg.- BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
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Arthur Honegger
La Roue: Overture
Orchestra: CSR Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Adriano.- Marco Polo.
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Arthur Honegger
Pacific 231
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.- Sony.
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Mussorgsky
In the village
Performer: Margaret Fingerhut.- CHANDOS.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Triple Concerto in C major, Op 56
Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- Philips.
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