Thursday - Rob Cowan with Susan Hill
With Rob Cowan. Five Reasons to Love: violin miniatures; Musical challenge: Find the Fourth; Artist of the Week: Belcea Quartet; Essential Choice: Mahler: Adagio (Symphony No 10).
Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. This week his guest is the author Susan Hill.
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love' violin miniatures, featuring
great romantic showpieces performed by star violinists Hagai Shaham, Nikolaj Znaider, Isaac Stern, Jascha Heifetz and Arthur Grumiaux.
9.30am
Find the Fourth
Take part in our daily challenge: spot the theme linking three pieces of music and identify the missing fourth.
10am
Especially for Halloween week, the author Susan Hill joins Rob in the studio. Susan's writing career has encompassed acclaimed literary novels, ghost stories, children's books, detective novels and memoirs. Her ghost story The Woman in Black was adapted into a successful film and is currently running as a play in the West End. Susan shares a selection of her favourite music with Rob.
10.30am
Artist of the Week:
The Belcea Quartet performing quartets by Ravel, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert's 'Death and the Maiden' and Brahms' String Quintet, Op. 111.
11am
This week's Essential Choices feature composers' final masterpieces, written at the end of their lives.
Mahler
Adagio (Symphony No. 10)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik (conductor).
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John Philip Sousa
Sabre and Spurs
Orchestra: Eastman Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Frederic Fennell.- MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE.
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5 Reasons to love... Violin Miniatures
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Alexander Borodin
Nocturne
Orchestra: Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Isaac Stern. Conductor: Frank Brieff.- SONY.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Consecration of the House: Overture
Conductor: Otto Klemperer. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.- EMI.
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Find the Fourth
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Hector Berlioz
Romeo et Juliette: Queen Mab Scherzo
Conductor: Pierre Monteux. Performer: London Symphony Orchestra.- WESTMINSTER.
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Find the Fourth
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Nicolas Gombert
Magnificat primi toni
Ensemble: Stile Antico.- HARMONICA MUNDI.
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Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt Suite No.1: Morning
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Orchestra: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA.- DG.
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Susan Hill's Choice No. 1
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin: Letter Scene
Singer: Nuccia Focile. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie.- PHILIPS.
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Susan Hill's Choice No. 2
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Magic Flute (Overture)
Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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Zoltán Kodály
Epigram No 2 (Nine Epigrams)
Performer: Natalie Clein. Performer: Julius Drake.- Zoltan Kodaly, Sonata for solo cello: Clein / Drake.
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Zoltán Kodály
Epigram No.1
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Artists of the Week: Belcea Quartet
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet in D major, K.499 ‘Hoffmeister’
Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.- EMI.
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Essential Choice
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Gustav Mahler
Adagio (Symphony No.10)
Conductor: Rafael KubelÃk. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.- DG.
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Erno Dohnanyi
Konzertstuck in D, Op.12
Performer: János Starker. Conductor: Walter Süsskind. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.- WARNER CLASSICS.
Musical Challenge - Find the Fourth
Answer: Morning
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The music played:
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Debussy
Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune
Philharmonia
Guido Cantelli (conductor)
Vaughan Williams
Silent Noon
Bryn Terfel (baritone)
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Strauss
Die Nacht
Katarina Karneus (mezzo-soprano)
Roger Vignoles (piano)
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