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Friday - Rob Cowan: Sound of Cinema

With Rob Cowan. CD of the Week: The Vagabond: Bryn Terfel/Malcolm Martineau; Artists of the Week: Beaux Arts Trio; Sound of Cinema with Neil Brand: Waxman: Suite (Sunset Boulevard).

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: The Vagabond: Bryn Terfel/Malcolm Martineau, DG; and at 9.30 our brainteaser - Only Connect.

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:

Waxman: Suite from Sunset Boulevard.

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Music Played

  • Max Steiner

    Gone with the Wind: At the Bazaar - Charleston Heel and Toe Polka

    Orchestra: Warner Bros Orchestra. Conductor: Max Steiner.
    • Sony.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Songs of Travel: 7. Whither Must I wander?

    Performer: Bryn Terfel. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • DG.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia Suite

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • EMI.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Variations on Folksongs, Op. 107 No. 5: A Madel, ja a Madel

    Performer: Olli Mustonen.
    • RCA.

  • Various Artists

    Only Connect

    Conductor: anon.

  • Alexander Borodin

    In the steppes of central Asia

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: André Cluytens.
    • EMI.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio and Rondo for harp, flute, oboe, viola and cello, K.617

    Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
    • DG.

  • Jerome Moross

    The Big Country

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra London. Conductor: Jerome Moross.
    • Guild Light Music.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Trio in B major, Op. 8

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Philips.

  • Diego Ortiz

    Ave maris stella

    Choir: Cantar Lontano. Conductor: Marco Mencoboni.
    • E Lucevan Le Stelle Records.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quartet in G major, Op 77 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Octet.
    • Philips.

  • Schubert

    Impromptu in A flat D899 no 4

    Performer: Shura Cherkassky.
    • FIRST HAND.

  • Franz Waxman

    Sunset Boulevard Suite

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Gerhardt.
    • RCA.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold & Ulrike-Anima Mathé

    Sinfonietta in B major, Op. 5: I. Fließend, mit heiterem Schwunge

    • Sinfonietta / Violin Concerto (Dallas Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Andrew.
    • Dorian.
    • 001.

Today's Brainteaser Answer

Only Connect: the connection was 'Big'.

The music played:

Jerome Moross
The Big Country
Studio Orchestra London
Jerome Moross (conductor)
GUILD LIGHT MUSIC GLCD 5202

Trad.
Stalia, stalia (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
Alexandros Xenofontos (instrumentalist)
COLUMBIA 5095972  

Max Steiner
The Big Sleep
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Gerhardt (conductor)
RCA GD80136   

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